Empty Seat Question

[DeereClone]

I’m not a huge fan of people just scoping out open seats that are good and sitting in them, hoping the ticket holders don’t show up. If it’s within your general area and you are just rearranging to sit by people you want or spread out a bit I think that’s completely fine.

 

[CyBobby]

Is it ok to use an empty seat near your own seat in Jack Trice?
My season ticket seat is in the row right behind my oldest son's seat. Last Saturday at the Baylor game, there were 2 empty seats on my left side. My son moved back to my row to stand by me. As I said the seats had not been utilized by anyone in the early part of the game. There was a couple in the next 2 seats that told my son that "those seats were bought already and he couldn't sit there." My son said to them that if the occupant of the seat came he would move back but would like to stand by his dad. They started to get very upset. A person 2 or 3 rows behind the couple started to yell at my son to get out of the seat. My son did move back to his seat. He told me that while they were correct that the seat was not his, he felt that their response was way out reason. I totally agreed with him. BTW- No one ever sat in those seats the entire game.

Thoughts?

Those kind of fans need to go and be Iowa Fans!!

 

[CyBobby]

Right. I do start to get salty though when our already tight row gets tighter because the big group down the row decides it is okay to seat 9 or 10 people in their 8 seats. At that point I make sure I am claiming my seat with my seat number squarely in the middle of my ass. I once put three in our two seats but my (younger then) son sat on my lap the entire game so I wasn't encroaching into other's seats.

I wish I could have put my son on my lap...BUT HE WAS SIX FOOT THREE & 250 LBS!!

 

[bozclone]

Is it ok to use an empty seat near your own seat in Jack Trice?
My season ticket seat is in the row right behind my oldest son's seat. Last Saturday at the Baylor game, there were 2 empty seats on my left side. My son moved back to my row to stand by me. As I said the seats had not been utilized by anyone in the early part of the game. There was a couple in the next 2 seats that told my son that "those seats were bought already and he couldn't sit there." My son said to them that if the occupant of the seat came he would move back but would like to stand by his dad. They started to get very upset. A person 2 or 3 rows behind the couple started to yell at my son to get out of the seat. My son did move back to his seat. He told me that while they were correct that the seat was not his, he felt that their response was way out reason. I totally agreed with him. BTW- No one ever sat in those seats the entire game.

Thoughts?

Those people are crazy unless the owned the seats and specifically bought them to have open space next to them or your son was somehow intruding on their space. Doesn’t sound like either are true. Who wouldn’t allow a son to move next to his dad to watch a game if the seat was available?

My daughter graduated from ISU in the spring. Our family got seats in the lower bowl and saved a couple for my daughter’s friends. When they showed up there was one more than expected. There was an empty seat across the aisle and three seats in. I asked one of the friends to ask the dad type and grandma type if they would move down one so at least the friend was just across the aisle from the group. The old lady flat out refused. Her approximately 50 year old son seemed embarrassed but didn’t say anything. She wasn’t the one on the aisle and she wasn’t limited in mobility. She was just being a witch. It pissed me off enough that I gave the friend my seat and I moved and sat next to the old witch away from my family for the whole graduation. Some people are just true *******.

 

[I@ST1]

Those people are crazy unless the owned the seats and specifically bought them to have open space next to them or your son was somehow intruding on their space. Doesn’t sound like either are true. Who wouldn’t allow a son to move next to his dad to watch a game if the seat was available?

My daughter graduated from ISU in the spring. Our family got seats in the lower bowl and saved a couple for my daughter’s friends. When they showed up there was one more than expected. There was an empty seat across the aisle and three seats in. I asked one of the friends to ask the dad type and grandma type if they would move down one so at least the friend was just across the aisle from the group. The old lady flat out refused. Her approximately 50 year old son seemed embarrassed but didn’t say anything. She wasn’t the one on the aisle and she wasn’t limited in mobility. She was just being a witch. It pissed me off enough that I gave the friend my seat and I moved and sat next to the old witch away from my family for the whole graduation. Some people are just true *******.

You are one entitled SOB. Wow. Terrible. You are probably the person that doesn’t purchase your airline seat and get upset when someone won’t switch with you so you can sit by your family….

 

[bozclone]

You are one entitled SOB. Wow. Terrible. You are probably the person that doesn’t purchase your airline seat and get upset when someone won’t switch with you so you can sit by your family….

You obviously don’t know me. Sounds like you might be the person at the football game the Op was talking about. I actually think the lady wouldn’t move because the friend that asked was Indian. If it was me and my dad sitting there, we would have gladly moved over one seat to help a family at a graduation ceremony where no one purchased seats. In fact we did move originally to help a family on the other side of our group. Grow up. Nice name calling. Judging by your comments in this thread it is pretty obvious who has a view contradictory to almost everyone else.

 

[BryceC]

Because they know that they aren’t the persons seats that are trying to sit there. It’s not that hard to understand.

Do you believe that someone should be able to walk around RV Village, find a stop on Saturday AM that isn’t being used, pull in their RV, and move move if the owner of the site comes?

Do you think that’s a remotely comparable situation?

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

Don't have a problem with people sliding down to open seats, but its also one of the reasons we have the seatbacks on our seats. Saw it way to often in the past when a group will try to slide another person without a ticket into a row, and crowd everyone together. The seatbacks really stop that from occurring.

 

[Clonefan94]

Those people are crazy unless the owned the seats and specifically bought them to have open space next to them or your son was somehow intruding on their space. Doesn’t sound like either are true. Who wouldn’t allow a son to move next to his dad to watch a game if the seat was available?

My daughter graduated from ISU in the spring. Our family got seats in the lower bowl and saved a couple for my daughter’s friends. When they showed up there was one more than expected. There was an empty seat across the aisle and three seats in. I asked one of the friends to ask the dad type and grandma type if they would move down one so at least the friend was just across the aisle from the group. The old lady flat out refused. Her approximately 50 year old son seemed embarrassed but didn’t say anything. She wasn’t the one on the aisle and she wasn’t limited in mobility. She was just being a witch. It pissed me off enough that I gave the friend my seat and I moved and sat next to the old witch away from my family for the whole graduation. Some people are just true *******.

Heads up, I have an isle seat. I bought it for a reason. No way am I moving down so someone else can use my isle seat. I would have flat out refused to move too.

 

[BCClone]

You obviously don’t know me. Sounds like you might be the person at the football game the Op was talking about. I actually think the lady wouldn’t move because the friend that asked was Indian. If it was me and my dad sitting there, we would have gladly moved over one seat to help a family at a graduation ceremony where no one purchased seats. In fact we did move originally to help a family on the other side of our group. Grow up. Nice name calling. Judging by your comments in this thread it is pretty obvious who has a view contradictory to almost everyone else.

Not a good luck to claim racism here. Many people who get aisle seats get them because they want them. You are making a lot of assumptions here about the other people.

 

[bozclone]

Not a good luck to claim racism here. Many people who get aisle seats get them because they want them. You are making a lot of assumptions here about the other people.

Your right I don’t know why the lady didn’t want to move. I shouldn’t have mentioned his race and I didn’t in my original post. It was just a very odd interaction because everyone else throughout both sections were shuffling around to try and help each other with seating. She actually wasn’t on the aisle herself, her son was and from the look on his face he was terrified by her reaction. Truth is it was within her rights to stay in her seat and she did. I sat in the empty seat next to her and she didn’t say a word to me, but I had a good time talking to the family on the other side of me. I thought to myself, I don’t want to be grumpy when I get old.

 

[bozclone]

Heads up, I have an isle seat. I bought it for a reason. No way am I moving down so someone else can use my isle seat. I would have flat out refused to move too.

I understand, if I bought an aisle seat I’m likely not moving either without a really good reason. Graduation wasn’t the same type of situation, everyone was moving around trying to help each other out because nothing was assigned. She was in the second seat from the aisle and didn’t want to move. That was her right, but it was out character what was going on all around her.

 

[BCClone]

Your right I don’t know why the lady didn’t want to move. I shouldn’t have mentioned his race and I didn’t in my original post. It was just a very odd interaction because everyone else throughout both sections were shuffling around to try and help each other with seating. She actually wasn’t on the aisle herself, her son was and from the look on his face he was terrified by her reaction. Truth is it was within her rights to stay in her seat and she did. I sat in the empty seat next to her and she didn’t say a word to me, but I had a good time talking to the family on the other side of me. I thought to myself, I don’t want to be grumpy when I get old.

Well, you can always work to make that happen I guess. Get a better attitude and who knows.

Did you offer to switch two of your aisle seats so the three girls could sit together and those two could keep aisle seats? Now that would show huge amounts of working, if not it just shows entitlement.

 

[cycloneML]

That’s awful. Tell them to get ******.