This isn’t anime-related, but moreso a social moment I feel the urge to relate. I had an initially unfortunate experience today while at the movies with my Grandmother. There was a really, really old woman being ushered in (she needed help etc) to come and watch Transformers. Now, totally awesome that someone of that age wants to watch such a movie. But not so awesome was an attitude that broke out.

Buncha guys, probably a bit younger than I am (let’s say inbetween 16-19) are sitting in the row. There’s a bunch of empty seats in the middle next to them. The usher asks if one of them could move down a seat or two to let the old lady sit. The guys not only refuse to move, but give the usher a speech. “We paid for our tickets, don’t hassle us, we’re not moving”, and so forth. But there’s… Like five extra seats further down the row right next to them.

It was apparently too much trouble for them to sit up, step over a foot, and sit back down for an old lady’s comfort. It seems that because a person has bought a ticket, they are entitled to being as big a bastard as they so please.

My Grandmother is a strong lady, despite her 68 years. Appalled and aghast at the situation, she stood up and went right over to the row of jerks. I hear what amounts to “By George I’ll give you what for!” (my Grandmother’s Australian and loves her old-style slang), rants at them, and then proceeds to pull one of them up from his seat by the ear.

Boy howdy did they move quickly once she did that. I think people are extremely scared of being physically disciplined in this day and age — especially these sorta guys. So in the end, there was a space of about four seats between them and the old lady and she got to watch her movie all nice and quiet-like. She was really thankful to my Grandmother too.

I love you awesome Grandma.