Sit Your @ss Down. - Page 3

darklinensuit · #31 07-19-2004, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Wait, are you saying you would rather have a fistfight in front of the car while you're trying to go somewhere than have someone call shotgun?! cause, usually, if people are going somewhere, they're all in the car at the same time...

I have to submit the possibility that you're just mad cause you always forget to say it first

Amber

Why say it. Down here you can carry it.

- Jake

darklinensuit · #32 07-19-2004, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Pet Peeves of Movie Seating:
I hate it when people come in late for a movie and stand right next to where I'm sitting while trying to find a seat and loudly asking their friends "is this alright? Or do you want to sit over there?" Argh!! ...or people who keep having to get up and pass by me. I can only cram my legs so far into my chest people, please!! And I like to sit on the aisle so I'm always bugged by frequent exiters. As far as where I like to sit in a theater: it's usually right in the middle, but like I said, I like to sit on the aisle which bugs my husband because he's 6'3" and he thinks that's more his right than mine (he likes to stick his legs off to the side because they're always crammed up behind the seats).

Play seating...hmmm, don't go to enough plays to answer that.

In classrooms, well, actually it depends on the class. If it's a class I like, I'll sit up front. If it's a class I'm not too interested in, or if I want to be invisible in the class (which is hard in grad seminar classes) then I will sit in the back. Usually though, we sit at a roundish table, kind of like King Arthur and his knights

. I'm sure some of that "equal participation of everyone" mentality is at play here too.

Concert seating: that's easy, if it's a band I love, as up front and center as possible. If it's a band I've been dragged to see, and is at a smaller club, I like to be towards the back to make up my mind if I like them or not. If I do, I'll weedle my way up front.

Sporting events: This doesn't really matter, unless I'm watching Tennis, then I have to be as close as possible, and preferably not behind the players...not a good view of all the action.

My co-worker who's also my movie buddy can't get over how no matter how empty a movie theater is, people will alays sit right in front of & right behind me. It's so freaky. And last time when we went to a theater at the other end of town to avoid students, I mentioned an annoying student's name and then she walked into the crowded theater. Weird. Of course, it never works if I mention the name of somebody I'd want to see.

- Jake

darklinensuit · #33 07-19-2004, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Claudia

During concerts - In front.

You bet!

- Jake

amber · #34 07-19-2004, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Why say it. Down here you can carry it.

- Jake

i don't get it. Carry what?
amber

darklinensuit · #35 07-19-2004, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

i don't get it. Carry what?
amber

shotgun

- Jake

cliffdweller · #36 07-20-2004, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

My co-worker who's also my movie buddy can't get over how no matter how empty a movie theater is, people will alays sit right in front of & right behind me. It's so freaky. - Jake

That happens to me all the time!! We'll be the only ones in the theater and it never fails, some 7 footer will always sit right in front of me. Argh!! It's like, sit in front of my giant of a husband and get out of my way, I'm only 5'4''! So I always have to end up switching places with him...

darklinensuit · #37 07-20-2004, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

That happens to me all the time!! We'll be the only ones in the theater and it never fails, some 7 footer will always sit right in front of me. Argh!! It's like, sit in front of my giant of a husband and get out of my way, I'm only 5'4''! So I always have to end up switching places with him...

You and I should never go to the movies without thick phonebooks.

Unless it's the Alamo. That place rocks.

- Jake

cliffdweller · #38 07-21-2004, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

You and I should never go to the movies without thick phonebooks.

Unless it's the Alamo. That place rocks.

- Jake

I went there twice this weekend!! I am an Alamo Drafthouse junkie, and accept no other movie-house substitutes.

darklinensuit · #39 07-21-2004, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

I went there twice this weekend!! I am an Alamo Drafthouse junkie, and accept no other movie-house substitutes.

I'm jealous. I still haven't been to the one on Anderson. I'm assuming you go downtown?

There's one here, but it's so far west I've never been there, and I can't imagine it has the same vibe.

- Jake

GardenStateGirlie · #40 07-21-2004, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Of course, it never works if I mention the name of somebody I'd want to see.

- Jake

"stevienicks, stevienicks, stevienicks, stevienicks....."

darklinensuit · #41 07-21-2004, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

"stevienicks, stevienicks, stevienicks, stevienicks....."

Careful or you might get the Michael Keaton demon version.

- Jake

dissention · #42 07-21-2004, 06:04 PM

Ever since I heard the story of the hypodermic needle in a movie theater seat, I've sat all the way at the top in the back. And I put a newspaper down on the seat before I sit in case there is a needle.

That story petrified me as a kid.