Monday, November 9, 2015

Pet Peeve #35 - Don't Sit Here

Picture this: you’re 6’7” and you’re out on a date. You choose the safe option and go to dinner and a movie. Dinner went well, you paid in coupons, got her liquored up, and now she’s getting handsy. You get to the movie. Privacy shouldn’t be an issue because it’s a late show and you chose the movie that’s been out a while. Solid strategy, you should feel proud. But wait. Three trailers in, you’re getting comfortable, you’ve put your feet up on the back of the seat in front of you, her hand is moving North of your kneecap and BOOM! Some middle aged dude that smells strange comes in with his girlfriend who is dressed like Phoebe from Friends. That’s cool, wait for them to sit down in one of the other 148 seats and that hand might keep sliding up further. NOPE. Old dude asks you to put your feet down so they can sit right in front of you.

              
  “Thanks, mate.” he mutters smugly.

                Two options: lose control at this clown and inform him at high volume both verbally and physically that there are an embarrassingly large amount of seats outside of your personal space. Or sit in your seat, behind this disturbingly eccentric couple, stewing in your own madness for 96 minutes, so mad in fact that you pay no attention to the film, just to the fact that the hand that was steadily rising up your thigh now just has a tight grip on your hand and you have to eat popcorn left-handed and now you have butterbeard.


                CAUTION: THESE PEOPLE WILL FIND YOU IN WAITING ROOMS AND ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND THEY WILL BE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF INSANE – TO AVOID THIS TOMFOOLERY, BE THE MOST EXTREME PSYCHO IN THE ROOM AT ALL TIMES.

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