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Originally Posted by Indydealmaker
Maybe it is because those people actually remember to show up and sit in the "saved" seats.
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Well, you are right about that. Everyone shows up to occupy their saved seats. And these events only happen once a year, and they are huge.
Plus Midwesterners have been doing this since I was a kid a hundred years ago, so I'm wondering if the practice started back when there was enough room for everyone anyway (smaller population), and people put their seats there early because later on they needed to haul picnic baskets, baby buggies, etc., to the venue. Families tended to be larger, and they all wanted to sit together.
Dunno.