[katsudden]

[QUOTE=redwitch;624251]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.

[graciegirl]

Some of us seniors are very tenacious.

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[DougB]

Yeah, and stubborn also.

[The Great Fumar]

I for one have no problem with saving chairs, I've been doing it for over a year, I now have 13 in my garage .....I'm thinking about setting up a booth at Marion Market.....

chairman Fumar ,,

[Barefoot]

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. So be it.

After 150 posts on this topic,

[mulligan]

Good to see FUMAR back in the fray.

[coffeebean]

On the Cruise Critic board, chair hogging is an extremely popular topic as most everyone wants to throw those towels and books overboard. Every single post on those threads (which, BTW, can run many more pages than this one is) is AGAINST saving chairs on the pool deck. Funny, none of those chair hogs ever post on those threads to defend their behavior . I have to give the OP credit for coming here and attempting to defend her point of view.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by coffeebean

On the Cruise Critic board, chair hogging is an extremely popular topic as most everyone wants to throw those towels and books overboard. Every single post on those threads (which, BTW, can run many more pages than this one is) is AGAINST saving chairs on the pool deck. Funny, none of those chair hogs ever post on those threads to defend their behavior . I have to give the OP credit for coming here and attempting to defend her point of view.

You are right. I think that Kat is new here and possibly a seasonal resident and probably think we are so unfriendly. As I said before, we bring the ways and attitudes and policies of the place where we lived.

But when in Rome, don't put your sweater on a chair and go off to the forum.

Or something lame like that.

[Bogie Shooter]

[quote=katsudden;624859]

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.

[buggyone]

Thursday is Valentine's Day and will be a real great night at Lake Sumter Landing with Rocky and the Rollers. I will be arriving early and am looking forward to another great rock and roll show. It will be interesting to see how the events staff and the outspoken posters will handle the chair savers at this show. Who knows - maybe the "pre-game show" will be as entertaining as the main event?

[ssmith]

...seems to me since you amended your original post....that although you may not agree with everyone that you do see some valid points on both sides of the opininion....love that when one does that. Just know that this thread will likely carry on for while.....since it is a hot topic....it may not be directed at you and then some will direct comments to you even when they have not read the latest you have had to say....Keep posting....there are some really great and funny peeps on this forum....also meet team at TOTV luncheon.... I think you will enjoy it. Mind this though we are Wannabes....have not been able to come to Crispers. :-(

[CFrance]

The OP is right about what happens elsewhere with seat saving, and while I don't agree it should happen at the squares, I am struggling to figure out why I think it's okay to do this for, say, the Coast Guard Festival parade in Grand Haven, MI, the Irish Festival or Summer Celebration in Muskegon, MI, or the Fourth of July parade in Frankfort, MI, but not here in TV. I haven't come up with what my reasoning is.

Maybe it's because this is a winter tourist destination? Or because it happens nightly? I don't know.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by CFrance

The OP is right about what happens elsewhere with seat saving, and while I don't agree it should happen at the squares, I am struggling to figure out why I think it's okay to do this for, say, the Coast Guard Festival parade in Grand Haven, MI, the Irish Festival or Summer Celebration in Muskegon, MI, or the Fourth of July parade in Frankfort, MI, but not here in TV. I haven't come up with what my reasoning is.

Maybe it's because this is a winter tourist destination? Or because it happens nightly? I don't know.

Could it be that those venues are larger??

[katsudden]

Today is Mardi Gras at Spanish Springs. It's 10am. Lots of chairs already saved, although we are not among them.

[Indydealmaker]

Originally Posted by CFrance

The OP is right about what happens elsewhere with seat saving, and while I don't agree it should happen at the squares, I am struggling to figure out why I think it's okay to do this for, say, the Coast Guard Festival parade in Grand Haven, MI, the Irish Festival or Summer Celebration in Muskegon, MI, or the Fourth of July parade in Frankfort, MI, but not here in TV. I haven't come up with what my reasoning is.

Maybe it's because this is a winter tourist destination? Or because it happens nightly? I don't know.

Maybe it is because those people actually remember to show up and sit in the "saved" seats.