'I wouldn't let 6-year-old sit with mum at the Barbie movie - they're my seats'
The Barbie movie has been making a serious impression since it came out last month, and people are still flocking to the cinema to watch the fun feminist flick. Many parents are asking whether the film is appropriate for kids, and whilst it's certainly more aimed at adults due to the unexpected hard-hitting themes, the visuals are something that children may enjoy.
When one mum booked to see the movie with her six-year-old daughter, she realised that there weren't any seats next to each other, but she took her chances, hoping someone would happily move for the pair. But when one man and his girlfriend rocked up, who had actually booked the seats they were sitting in, the man made the woman and her child move and was branded "rude and inconsiderate" by the disgruntled parent.
He took to Reddit's 'Am I the A**hole' forum to ask "Am I the a**hole for not swapping seats so a mother and her daughter could sit together?" He explained that he bought the tickets "a few days before" and bought seats together "in the middle row."
He wrote: "When we got into the cinema a woman and her daughter were in our seats. I'm not sure how old the daughter was but she looked about five or six. I let the woman know that they were our seats and I even showed her the tickets. She said when she purchased her tickets they only had two seats available, one in the front row and another in the far back.
"She said she wanted to sit next to her daughter and she didn't want her sitting that far away from her so she asked if my girlfriend and I could swap seats. I told her that wasn't my problem and I paid for those seats, so I politely asked her if they would get up. The woman said she understood I paid for the seats but I didn't have to be rude and inconsiderate. Before the conversation went any further someone who overheard us said they would swap seats with the woman and her daughter.
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"As we were leaving the cinema my girlfriend said she felt bad for the woman and giving up our seats would've been the right thing to do and I was being a bit inconsiderate. At first, I didn't think I did anything wrong, I paid for those seats and the woman purchased the tickets knowing she wouldn't be able to sit with her daughter. Now I'm starting to feel a little bad because of what my girlfriend and the woman said. Am I the a**hole?
Surprisingly, in the comments, a lot of people said the man had done nothing wrong as the woman had just made the assumption that she could sit in someone else's seat when she booked the tickets. One wrote: "The woman should have chosen a different movie time instead of assuming people would move for her. She was being inconsiderate to her own daughter in the situation that no one would move."
Someone else pointed out the child may get bored in the cinema, writing: "Also, anyone whose seen the movie will tell you, the Barbie movie isn't aimed at younger children like the animated ones are. It's aimed at tweens/teens, and adults." Another agreed: "A five-six-year-old is going to become bored as soon as the scene changes out of Barbieland and it's just adults talking."
"Not the a**hole", a Redditor reassured. "The woman purchased the two tickets far apart. It was her decision, and it was a bad one, as her child is too small to send off to sit by herself. So her solution was to usurp somebody else's seats and play the victim when somebody else (you) objected, and retaliate for you saying no by making you look and feel bad. She could have simply purchased two seats together for a later show or a later date - but instead, she relied either on the kindness of strangers or on her own ability to manipulate the situation in her favour. None of this says anything bad about you, and it's all on her. I'm sorry her manipulativeness worked on your girlfriend."
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