Nothing’s more disappointing than showing up to my packed Calc class, seeing one empty seat in a sea of people, then just when I’m about to park myself in that beautiful seat, the person next to it says it’s saved! Sorry? Come again? You’re not kidding? This isn’t some weird kind of humour you’re using to brake the ice when some stranger sits next to you? No, I guess not. Is this high school? I thought I wouldn’t have to deal with this bullshit after I got out of that hell-hole. If your lazy-ass friend doesn’t get up early enough for class that’s their problem, not mine. —Can’t see the board, asshole.
This article appears in Nov 25 – Dec 1, 2010.
Your correct response should have been:
“Thanks. I appreciate it.”
after which you plunk your ass down in the empty seat.
haha, all this rememinds me of is little forest gump! “seats taken”
Pretend you are deaf. Or dumb. Or just don’t give a fuck. You’re tuition paid for that seat….take it.
You could have gotten there earlier, or got a friend to save you a seat becuase you couldn’t get there early enough.
Deep breath.
No way, aliar. If you aren’t there, you lose your seat. This isn’t elementary school. I’d have said “that’s ok, I need a seat and I’m here, so I’ll explain it to your friend if you like”.
I’m with all you folks who say first come first serve…your friends late, to bad…so sad !
I’d be damned unconscious before I didn’t sit there. That’s the only way that seat would have stayed empty !
Yeah that sucks OP, but seriously what is up with NS and people apparently not knowing the difference between “breaks” and “brakes”?
I am by no means the grammar and spelling police, but come on! Nearly every traffic-related bitch on here will see the poster write: “And then I had to slam on my BREAKS!!”
Now we have the opposite problem here, where the poster writes “brake the ice” when the clearly mean “break the ice”.
Sorry, pet peeve of mine. Anybody else notice this phenomenon?
unless there’s a fucking body in it, it isn’t saved. some douche said that to me when i went to dal. looked him dead in eye, and said, move the fuck out of the way, or there will be two empty seats in a minute. fuck them, sit down.
Ask the idiot if the person he or she is saving the seat for has their name on it or if they have a receipt for it. If not, too fucking bad.
I had a similar experince when I went to see Sherlock Holmes at the movies. I like the back row (no one kicks my seat) and there were two people back there…one at either end of the row.
When my date and I walked up to the top the guy at our end of the row said, “this row is taken”
So I squeezed past him and said, “I doubt you have that many friends” and plopped down in the centre seat
Who tries to save an entire fucking row? And btw, the other friends showed up after the movie actually started. Too fucking bad…they ended up split up all over the theatre. 🙂
westcoastkid, the transpositioning of a couple of letters is no big deal, and it’s easily done on a keyboard. I do it myslef all the time. To many and too few lettters too.
And OB, you have to stand up for yourself, no one else is going to.
nice one devilgirl “i doubt you have that many friends” sienfeld always comes to mind when i think of movie seats
omg Paingirl…I had a total Seinfeld movie moment for one of the Lord of the Rings movies. It was showing in so many theatres and so busy that my BF decided to go get us seats while I got the popcorn.
He didn’t look at which theatre he was supposed to go into and just went to the nearest one. So I ended up going to 3 different theatres and doing a loud stage whisper in each one to try to find him.
Of course someone had to yell…”you sure you got the right theater…it’s playing in a couple theatres ya know!” I finally found him by going into a theatre and loudly whispering “JERRY! JERRY! I know you’re in here! Answer me!” (his name isn’t Jerry) 🙂
and no…this was not going on while the movie was playing…we were there super early so the lights hadn’t even gone down yet, it was just so packed in every theatre I didn’t know where to look for him.
I did give a few knowing Seinfeld fans a chuckle, though 🙂
Could have, should have. I know what it’s like to be in this situation and just back down without thinking because you’re so surprised it actually happened, only to regret it immediately after for not putting your foot down when you had the chance. A lot of people put up with stupidity and assholery because they don’t like confrontation, causing a scene, or inciting hostility with people they have to work with; stupid assholes often rely on it.
So I don’t blame the OP if they backed down without thinking or because they didn’t want to disrupt the beginning of the class. Still I like to see stupid assholes put in their place. So just remember that most stupid assholes don’t like confrontation, disruption, or hostility any more than you do but will bluff to the contrary. So if you call their bluff and surprise them by not reacting passively to the point of spinelessness like most people do (especially if they are strangers) chances are they aren’t going to do or say shit all to you afterward.
Went to the movie theatre the other day to find almost a whole row in the middle being saved by one person. Fortunately, there were only two of us and we got pretty good seats. Really irritating though. If your ass is not in the seat, it is not yours.
If there were no other seats, I would have taken it anyway. And as for the immaturity of high school being over; that’s not true. Society is just one big high school.