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"These Seats Are Saved"

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Ornery

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I arrived at our son's commencement one hour early to get a seat close enough for pictures. First row had some skank on the end, who said the several seats beyond her were "saved". A cow ten seats down nodded in agreement. I said, OooooKaaaayy, and tried the row behind them. An old man was behind them on the end, who was afraid to say it was the same situation with him, but his wife several seats down spoke up. She said they were ALL saved. I said loud enough for both rows to hear, "OH, THAT'S SLICK!" I noticed the third row was still empty, so I said loudly to my wife, "Why don't we just save this whole row here?" The old man's wife started asking him for his coat to put on one of the chairs. He protested, but finally gave it to her. The cow in the front row spent the next hour looking anxiously for her missing entourage. My wife was mad that I made a fuss about it. TOUGH!

I tend to agree with Dave Berry:

Dave sets rules on lines and saving seats
  • At class plays, music recitals, graduations, etc., you may save a few seats for your IMMEDIATE FAMILY and then only for a reasonable time. You may not arrive an hour early and squat at the end of a row, or even two rows, and save large blocs of seats for relatives so distant that some of them are not even vertebrates.
 
"saving" seats for someone who is already there and has been to or SEEN the seat they're sitting in is fine, but saving seats for someone who didn't feel like getting there early enough to get a good seat is not cool.
 
I agree with the OP. If they can't come as a group, tough. I would've sat in the front row anyhow. Let em call security. . .
 
Originally posted by: episodic
I agree with the OP. If they can't come as a group, tough. I would've sat in the front row anyhow. Let em call security. . .
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Exactly, WTF are they gonna do about it?
 
Well, the seats I snagged were good enough, but you're right. My wife would have freaked if I had pushed it that far. Would have been a pretty uncomfortable 3 hours, too!
 
Originally posted by: Ornery
Well, the seats I snagged were good enough, but you're right. My wife would have freaked if I had pushed it that far. Would have been a pretty uncomfortable 3 hours, too!
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You should have just pulled the fire alarm and then stole there seats when they went out of the building.
 
At commencements, aren't there a limited amount of seats a student's family cab get?
My older brother's graduation required tickets, and each student received only 2.
 
had the same thing happen to my wife and I at my Nephews HS graduation. hundreds and hundreds of empty seats down low but "all saved" we got stuck int he nose bleed section at the Coors event center on the CU campus. Couldnt see crap.
 
It's a fact of life.

Next time get there earlier.

/Still sucks, but, it shouldn't have been a surprise.
 
I don't put up with that kind of garbage. The last time something like that happened to me I politely informed them that the people they were saving seats for are SOL because I'm sitting right HERE.
 
My sister has a good approach with people like this. When I was at the Belmont Stakes yesterday, some moron was trying to reserve an ENTIRE ROW of bench seats in front of the start/finish line (about 18 seats total) for his buddies. When we confronted him about it, he started ranting about how he's been there for 15 years in a row, like that somehow gave him some God-given right to those benches. At that point, we didn't even bother arguing with him, and my sister had the security guard make him move his crap so we could sit down. Brutal, but definately effective!
 
This happened to me before. The guy said "These 10 seats are saved"

My response:

"Thanks for saving them for me, but there's only four of us" 😀

Of Course, only 3 other peple he saved them for showed up. My friend told me afterwards that One of them was talking on the cell phone saying "Yeah, the others said they still don't know if they're coming"

This was said while I was in the washroom, my friend knew if she would've told me when I returned, I would've raised hell.
 
the people are not there they are not saved.

I have no problem takeing someone saved place if they are takeing a few rows. what are they going to do call the police on me? have me thrown out? not likely.

We had something like this happen at my nephew's commencement. well we arrived with my my brother-in-law to find the first 10 row's on each side "saved" there was a old man and women sitting 10 rows back saying everything up front is saved. My brother-in-laws just said thanks for saveing it for us and sat down. The old man got all mad and said they were for his family. My B-I-L (tired of typing it) just said they were not here so he was takeing them. If he had a problem to call the cops.

so about 12 of us took the 2 first pews that were "saved" a few of the old guys family complained loudly but heck they didnt even fill up one side they had "saved"! next week in the church newsletter there was a thing saying to NOT save seats. heh
 
You got bullied by two women and you're blaming your wife for the fact that you're a wuss? Grow a pair and next time you'll be able to sit down where you want.
 
i went to see harry potter yesterday and some dude was saving like twenty seats for a children's party that didn't even show up until the previews started. it was hectic, because tons of doubles and small families couldn't sit together on account of that fool. I think a seat is open unless there is a garment or some other personal effect on the seat.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Saving ten seats, especially in the front row, is Bullsh!t. I would have said something too John!
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Ditto

BTW: Did all the "saved" seat get filled by the people they were being saved FOR?

For all you know, they could have auctioned them off to people who showed up late! 😉
 
Similar thing happened to me at a bar. It's Saturday night, there's five of us and the bar is packed, I look around and there's no couches open. (The way the bar is setup, there are groups of couches around tables.) Wait, there's one, but there's some guy sitting at it, by himself. We walk over and sit down across from him. He mentions the couch is for his friends who will "be here in five minutes."

I told him to tell them to be quicker next time. He left so we ended up getting two couches.
 
Dude... what were you thinking.

If they ain't there, they can say "bye bye" to their front row seats.

Just sit and ignore whatever the seat-saver says. He'll leave you alone in 2 minutes.
 
I don't mind if they save a couple seats even if they haven't gotten there.. but anything more than that is just not right...

And like someone above we got tickets to hand out for commencement ceremony also... like 2 or 3... can't just sit / save where you want.
 
First come, first serve. Having a friend there does not qualify you as being there. Now if it was for a spouse or a parent, fine. If it is 10 seats? Bull. Grow a pair next time and hop right in the seats.
 
Originally posted by: Ness
First come, first serve. Having a friend there does not qualify you as being there. Now if it was for a spouse or a parent, fine. If it is 10 seats? Bull. Grow a pair next time and hop right in the seats.
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Agreed.

That's what I do.

That's like people who park their POS in 2 spots so no one can park near them. I don't care if your new Civic looks nice. Park it in one spot. Same goes for pick-up truck drivers, unless you have some huge 350 or 3500 series duallie. If you insist on bringing your restored muscle car to a public parking lot, then move it to an empty area and take up 2 spots.
 
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