I was sitting, enjoying my popcorn and light conversation with a friend before the film started. Then you, sitting behind us decided to place your foot right between our seats. Several attempts from me to move away and dirty looks from my friend apparently meant nothing. She said something and you didn’t listen…
Usually I’d just move but the theatre was packed (opening night). I don’t expect you to be constantly thinking of those around you, but a little courtesy would be nice.
Also that jacket your lady friend left on the back of my seat and never removed, yeah thanks… Put it on your own next time!—Vex
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
I usually don’t take people to task for what they didn’t do but seriously when you say that your friend said something and was ignored, did it occur to either of you to use that simple phase “MOVE YOUR FUCKING SHITKICKER OR PREPARE TO GO THROUGH LIFE LIKE TERRY FUCKING FOX BUT WITH LESS WELLWISHERS YOU PIG IGNORANT BUTTBAG.
Because that usually works for me.
Yeah, the George Costanza way seems to work ;D. I love him.
yet another reason NOT to go on opening weekend.
People can be real douchebags… especially excited people.
melectric…ditto
I’m with Ivan on this.
You couldn’t remove said jacket from the back of the chair onto the floor yourself?
If you had moved the coat and put it in your lap like you were going to keep it, I bet they’d have moved faster.
Meanwhile – rant in post #1 would work swimmingly, I’m sure.
When diplomacy fails, attack with shock and awe. And if he’s bigger than you, prepare to run like fuck >: )
ivan knows…when you get to our advanced state of decay, the mind to mouth path becomes shorter and less fearful of repercussions…crazy old lady rawk
As one older, wiser parade goer told me Saturday, “Always have an exit strategy”.
but o.p., did they have dirty toes and ugly feet, if not, then just punch their fucking face.
The last time someone put their foot between the seats I untied their shoe. They were like “what the hell?” and I was like “well, you put it in my personal space, I claim this for the king of France.”
clap clap sodeypop
hahaha, that’s wicked, sodey! i’ll have to use that one if it ever happens to me. but instead of france i’ll use ….. ‘the emporer of this empire…theatre!’
sodey…thanks for sharing your brilliant theatre strategy…you rock!
How about “O M F G What is this SMELL??????? Oh, your feet. Can you please move your feet, they reek!”
Now, all these people saying “one time I did this, if I were there I would have done that,” etc etc. If it was a bunch of yo yo homie gangsta wannabes misbehaving, would you have said something? Probably not because putting up with a bit of a hassle is better than having the shit kicked out of you outside of the movie theatre!
If you were walking down Gottingen Street by Uniacke Square and some hoodrats were blocking the sidewalk, would you just walk around them, or would you say to their faces “excuse me, this sidewalk is for everyone, do you mind moving please?” $50 for the person who does the latter and puts the video on YouTube!
yo yo homie gangsta wannabes lol
I don’t have a camera but I could/would do it. I just won’t be confrontational; I would just smile and look innocent as hell and get what I want. 🙂 My baby racoon face helps let the guard down of most folks. If I get beaten up as a result of it…well…that’s very unlikely in a theatre or on a busy street.
“baby racoon face” lol.
There are low lifes, idiots, thugs, hicks, morons anywhere you go. Can’t escape it, sadly.
Rainbow Coalition of Wankers. Sad but true, Para.
What if you just use the foot as an armrest? Maybe grind your elbow into it a little.
Did you drive to the theater? If so, those keys are pointy and shark. A quick jab to the intruding foot would work.
Sounds like they were trying to save the seat? Putting their junk on it and all….
Not that I agree with “seat saving” especially on opening night
Why didn’t you fucking say “Move your feet, dumbass”? Seriously, I don’t have sympathy for anyone who feels a dirty look is enough to get someone to move. No balls.
Haha I went to a movie with pops and someone did this, he kept poking their foot until they noticed and he went “Oh! I don’t have my glasses, couldn’t understand exactly what this was doing there” … they got the idea.
“If it was a bunch of yo yo homie gangsta wannabes misbehaving, would you have said something? Probably not because putting up with a bit of a hassle is better than having the shit kicked out of you outside of the movie theatre!”
LOL. You think I’m scared of kids with pants around their knees and sideways hats? Those little g-units back right the fuck down when someone challenges them, because they’re used to people being intimidated for no good reason. I’m not in the business of “putting up with a hassle” from a bunch of monkeys.
My experience so far with encountering large groups of little g-units, hoodrats and yo yo homie gangsta wannabes on the sidewalk is that the reason they are occupying all of the sidewalk, 95 percent of the time, is merely because they *are* a large group, not because they are making a statement or being assholes. Believe it or not they’ll actually let you through without intimidation – and quite frankly, without anyone giving a shit – because they were never seriously out to make a statement anyway.
A lot of the time there will however be a readiness in such a group to take advantage of someone who thinks there is a SITUATION, and makes a production out of what is a routine pedestrian situation. In other words, if you take the attitude that that group of youngsters is a problem, you may in fact be creating the problem in the first place.
When *I* have problems with gaggles of people on the sidewalks who are pricks about letting you through, it’s never been low-income punks – it’s always been upper-middle-class or upper-class looking assholes who seem to think that they are entitled to the sidewalk by birth. People in nice clothes with good grooming, in other words.
And for that matter, assholes in theatres are more likely to come from a well-off suburb than to come from Uniacke Square. In fact, assholishness seems to be inversely proportional to one’s social class, so I wouldn’t worry too much about the public housing punks.
Yup, great point Realist.
It’s the nameless people that go to work day in and day out that think soceity owes them something for their work. Those are the people I’m most afriad of. The ones that will spew venom at the slightest of what they think is an infraction. The people with the nicest clothes and shoes that think their feet are too precious to touch the ground. If you’re afraid then keep a respectable distance from the “thugs” and “monkeys”. The plain clothed “hiders” who harbour problems from home and frustrations of daily life are the ones that live in the guise of niceness.
I should know, I lived that life for a while.
Come see the violence inherent in the system….
Come see the violence inherent in the system….
Help Help, I’m being repressed!
Bloody Peasant!
i didn’t vote for you
must be a king….
hasn’t got shit all over ‘im
Another option would be to do what Kurt Angle does when he’s going for the Angle-Lock submission. Get up, pretend to pull down the singlet straps (or take off a sweater/jacket if it’s still on), grab the foot and then twist it into a jiu jitsu/SAMBO ankle lock. They’re quite easy to do and hurt a LOT.
do you prefer standing or with the leg grapevine?
I like the standing version myself…. looks better but a little less painful.
I love the leg grape-vine. That’s usually a sign that you’re not getting out of it. When standing you have the option to roll/spin out of it whereas if you’re grapevined it’s nothing but dead weight ripping at your ankle.
If I had to choose, I think I prefer Ken Shamrock’s original version where he’d kneel down and step over in a half-grapevine (like the STF).
Check out Benoit vs. Angle from Royal Rumble 2003; solid, SOLID match that ends after a few reversals and counters.
I remember watching that one… been going through all the rumbles since the start.
They both got ovations for that one if I remember….
and they and jericho had some decent triple-threat matches as well.
I’ve always been an Angle fan. he’s epitomizes his three i’s
yes, both got ovations but Benoit’s was longer and he got a standing one to boot. When he finally got to his feet after the replay you could see the crowd rise and its volume rise as he hobbled out.
that was on the special features…. the 3-4 minute round he got afterward…. yes.
forever lost in the archives now that they’re not affiliating with anything Benoit these days.