A man has sparked furious arguments after revealing he refused to switch seats with a little girl so she could sit with her mother while she watched the Barbie movie.
An unnamed man, 22, has taken to Reddit to reveal that he wouldn’t allow a mother and her six-year-old daughter to sit next to each other because he and his girlfriend had already bought their seats.
His admission comes after the conversation around the topic of airline etiquette came to a head after a pharmacist revealed she refused to give up her seat so that a mother and her teen could sit together while traveling.
He wondered if he was wrong in a thread titled ‘Am I the A**hole?before refusing mother and daughter seats together, adding that it “wasn’t his problem.”
A man has sparked furious arguments after revealing he refused to switch seats with a little girl so she could sit at the cinema with her mother (stock image)
He wondered if he was wrong in a thread titled ‘Am I The A**hole? ‘, for refusing mother and daughter seats together, adding that it ‘wasn’t his problem’
The message read: “Yesterday my girlfriend and I went to the movies to see Barbie. I bought our tickets a few days before and made sure we got seats next to each other in the middle row. ‘
He explained that when he and his girlfriend went to the theater, they found the mother and daughter, who appeared to be about “five or six.”
The man noted that he asked the mother and daughter duo to move and showed them the tickets.
He explained, “I let the woman know it was our seats and I even showed her the tickets. She said when she bought her tickets they only had two seats available, one in the front row and another in the very back.’
The mother begged the man and his girlfriend to switch places with them because he didn’t want her daughter to sit away from her, but the man refused to budge.
“She said she wanted to sit next to her daughter and she didn’t want to sit so far from her, so she asked if my friend and I could switch seats.
“I told her that wasn’t my problem and I paid for those seats so I politely asked her if they would stand up. The woman said she understood I had paid for the seats but that I shouldn’t be rude and inconsiderate,” he noted.
Before the conversation could continue, a stranger agreed and said the mother and daughter could sit down.
Many people agreed with the man and praised him for not allowing the mother and daughter to sit in his chairs
However, it wasn’t over yet.
“As we left the theater my friend said she felt sorry for the woman and that giving up our seats had been the right thing to do and I was a little inconsiderate.
“At first I thought I didn’t do anything wrong, I paid for those seats and the woman bought the tickets knowing she wouldn’t be able to sit with her daughter,” he added.
At the end of the post, he wondered if he was an “a**hole” because he was starting to feel bad about what his girlfriend had said.
People on the internet were divided by the man’s confession.
Many agreed with him and noted that he was right.
One person wrote, “Not the a**hole. The woman should have chosen a different movie moment instead of assuming people would move for her. She was inconsiderate of her own daughter in the situation where no one would move.”
Another user commented, “It’s no surprise she chose the 2 “best” seats in the theater.”
Someone else wrote, “Woman bought the two tickets far apart. It was her decision, and it was a bad one, since her child is too small to sit down on her own. So her solution was to usurp someone else’s seats and play the victim when someone else (you) objected, and retaliate for your saying no by making you look and feel bad. She could have just bought two seats together for a later show or date, but instead she relied on the kindness of strangers or her own ability to manipulate the situation to her advantage. None of this says anything bad about you, and it’s all up to her. I’m sorry her manipulation worked on your friend.”
“This was not an airplane seat. The mother and daughter could go to the movies on another less busy day, or to a later screening, or actually plan ahead and buy tickets. It’s not like the Barbie movie is going anywhere,” another person commented.
One person said, ‘I am a parent. If I can’t find seats together, I don’t buy the tickets. This applies to airline tickets, movie tickets, live theater tickets. Her lack of planning shouldn’t be your problem.’
‘As a mother yourself, you shouldn’t feel bad. There are other shows and as a parent I would have chosen another,” one wrote.
Someone else wrote, “She bought tickets knowing they weren’t together, and just assumed she’d take a seat she liked. She shouldn’t have bought tickets. Nobody wants to sit alone in the cinema.’
“Not the asshole, but glad it worked out for the woman and her daughter,” said another user.
However, other users hit the man for not letting the mother and daughter sit together
“She bought tickets on purpose, knowing she wouldn’t be able to sit with her daughter. She should have gone to another show,’ someone else added.
However, other users hit the man for not letting the mother and daughter sit together.
“You’re the asshole,” said one person.
Another user commented, “You’re both assholes. Yes, you could have switched and yes, she could have been more responsible. And if your girlfriend really cared, she would have said it when it happened.
‘You’re the bastard. It’s a children’s movie,’ someone else said.
“A five-year-old child is too young to sit alone,” said another user.
The man’s confession comes just days after a passenger was praised online for refusing to give up her second-class first-class seat for a woman who wanted to sit closer to her teen.
Dr. Sabra, a TikTok creator and pharmacist, garnered nearly ten million views after sharing her elated reaction to the confrontation.
The short clip, titled, “POV: Flight Agent Asks Me To Give Up My 1A Seat So A Child Sits With Their Family,” saw her grinning from ear to ear after denying the mother.
The refusal comes months after a man sparked a furious debate when he refused to give up his first-class seat for his boss, despite using his own credit card points to do so.
In the past, Jaci Stephen of DailyMail.com even voiced her opinion, confessing that she “absolutely refuses” to switch seats, no matter how angry the passenger requesting the transfer may get.