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Originally Posted by redwitch

kat, I don't think you get it. Imagine you have been standing in a line for dinner for at least an hour. Just when you are two or three tables from being seated, a couple comes in and jumps to the front of the line, claiming they left their umbrella to hold their place while they went next door to have a drink. Don't know about you, but I'd be seriously angry.

Tommy...imagine you have been standing in line for dinner for an hour and others are let in before you because they thought ahead to make reservations.
To the people saving seats, they are simply "making reservations" because there is no other way to do so.

I guess I don't understand why everyone feels entitled to a chair when they arrive late. If you go early, you will get a chair. People lay "claim" to a chair for the evening. If they get up every five minutes to dance, or dance for an hour, so what? If they get there early to "claim" a chair, so be it. When they are done with it, it is up for grabs. Obviously you all see this as being rude. Obviously a lot of others don't as there are a lot doing it.

I do get that you don't want to see people saving seats and not sitting in them. I understand that it frustrates you. I understand that you envision someone else sitting there so the chair does not go unused. But it is being used even if no one is in it for the time being. It's just not the way you want to see it being used.

In my home town, on the 4th of July, we spread blankets at a park to "claim" our spots. No one has a problem with that. If someone puts a blanket or chairs on a curb to save a spot for a parade, no one has a problem with that.
Some people save a pew at church for their family at Midnight mass. They got there early. So be it.

Perhaps all 150 posts would be worth reading.