No Air and Air Heads (Twofer!)

[LillFilly]

I stopped at a gas station for their free air pump. I see an SUV parked smack next to the pump, but nobody in it. I pull-up behind it, only to see a guy running over shooting me dagger glares, then sllloooowwwwlllyyyy going about his business of pumping air. I left before he was done the first tire to go someplace else. There were plenty of parking spaces, but I guess he wanted to make sure nobody got to the air before HE was ready.

Remember my Boyfriend, hit by a car? Well, he's getting cabin fever so we went with our friends to a theater performance at a local college. Ushers and everything! We confirmed upon receiving our tickets that he was getting an isle seat so he could have more room for his leg, brace and crutches. We are brought to our seats (we had adjoining ones) to see a lone woman sitting in the middle of them. The Usher asked her to move, and we all entered until finally my boyfriend sat at the end with relief! But the Usher kept insisting that we move down one so that the woman could have the end seat! My boyfriend kept trying to explain he needed room for his leg, but the Usher seemed to be getting frustrated and kept telling us to move down! I don't know what seats the woman actually had, she never said, but we had our tickets out at that point and our friend stood up and point-blank informed the Usher "Look, this is my seat, her seat, and boyfriend's seat. He has seat B10, he needs room for his leg, we are not moving so please leave us alone." The woman at least seemed embarrassed and told the Usher she would just sit behind us.

[sevendaysky]

So you say move down one seat. Which means there were at least (group + 1) number of open seats. Why could the lady not go in and sit at the end of your group and your BF sit on the aisle? She was sitting in the middle of the seats before so she didn't NEED an aisle seat to the degree that your BF did. The only reason I can see them trying to make your BF move down is so the lady didn't have to climb over his cast/crutches - but she could have entered from the other side. I have yet to see a theater with seats that directly abutted a wall.

[Teskeria]

I have yet to see a theater with seats that directly abutted a wall.

95% of the theaters I have been in have seats that directly abut a wall. They look like this:

Wssss__ssssssssssssssssss__ssssW

W=wall, s=seat, __ = aisle

[LillFilly]

The only reason I can see them trying to make your BF move down is so the lady didn't have to climb over his cast/crutches

Exactly! I don't know why the Usher had her come-out into the row instead of just moving down a seat or two; but it seemed like she wanted to sit by herself too.

The theater was isle-seats-isle-seats-isle-seats-isle.

[pitmonkey]

I hope you let the powers that be at the theater know how the usher was treating a disabled person. I know that some can be a little thick but that was truly unreasonable.

[PepperElf]

plus i note she never said what seat she had on her ticket... DID she have a ticket?

[ThirdGenRetail]

Being at a college, I imagine 'theater' also translates into 'auditorium', and at least at every school I've been to with one(Middle school when I moved out here, plus two high schools), the seats were set up exactly as mentioned by Teskeria.

That usher was epic fail - I'd think he would be able to SEE that BF couldn't exactly just move down a seat, and if the tickets are ASSIGNED seats, then that was even WORSE.