Seat-saving out of control!
Is it just me, or has seat-saving gone way beyond rude? I see it everywhere and people are absolutely shameless! I was at my daughter's kindergarten graduation and some member of some family got in early and put little torn pieces of napkin on the entire front row of seats! Guess that's their way of saying "nyeh, nyeh, one of us got here before you and feels entitled to as many seats as our big family wants even though they have no intention of sitting in them til just before the ceremony starts." And then there's the high-profile church events -- "reserving" dozens of seats for family members who saunter in at the last minute. And what about parades? Those late-night lawn chair deposits that litter the curb-side? Do we, the non-depositers of keys, napkins, chairs, have to honor those self-centered, loophole finding, greedy litter-spreaders, all in the name of getting the best seats without using their own bodies to stake their claim? Can't we just flick the napkin shred as the garbage it is and sit down? Help me out! I need to calibrate my rage. -- Jessica near Richmond