Smasharoo wrote:
Trying to figure out why anyone would be bothered by someone else sitting straight at a theater, when Nexa commented that you may be a tiny person who can't see over their heads. Is that it?
No. It's because I'm trying not to block the view of the person behind me? So, knowing that I'm taller than most people and can easily block the view of a person who can't sit up high enough to see over/around my head, I tend to sit as low in my seat as possible. This is obviously dependent on the person in front of me doing the same. A trend I've noticed is that tall men tend to do the same thing I do. It's usually semi-tall women (like say 5'8" or so) that sit ramrod straight in their seats. They're just short enough to not think about how they're blocking the view of others, but just tall enough that this causes the person behind them to have to sit up higher in order to see past them.
It's funny because just a week ago, I had this exact situation come up. I'm at the youth ballet watching my niece do her first on pointe performance. When I first arrived, the seats immediately in front of me were empty. A few minutes into the show, the people with tickets for those seats arrived and sat down. The woman in front of me was in that "not too tall but not short" category and proceeded to quite obviously sit as high as she could. And prop her sunglasses on the top of her head to boot. I had to adjust my sitting position to be able to see. As it happened, the seat next to me was empty (I was one space away from the aisle). After intermission, the woman seated behind me asked if she could sit in the seat next to me because "you're tall". Point being that had the woman in front of me not sat the way she did, I would not have had to sit up as high as I was (and I was still nowhere near sitting all the way up), and the woman behind me (who was like 5'2 or so) could have seen the show.
Heaven forbid we spend any time at all thinking about how our actions affect others around us.
Edited, Apr 13th 2015 5:35pm by gbaji