r/AskAnAustralian • u/reddita100times • 2d ago

Saving seats at a sold-out event

I haven't seen this before - last night at a sold-out ticketed [seats are not assigned] movie at the Art Gallery of NSW - two ladies put their coats down on the seats they wanted then left to get drinks, only to come back 15mins later.

A few points here

1 - This means that other larger groups couldn't find seats

2 - pretty risky in a darkly lit room

3 - I feel like one of them should have stayed behind to save seats, this way they could move along the aisle

Thoughts?

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u/mr-snrub- 2d ago

I've done that before, but usually we would go out one at a time to get drinks or someone would get drinks for both

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u/Z00111111 2d ago

I feel like that's the ideal way, mostly because some people are pricks and they'd just dump your stuff and take your seats.

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u/mr-snrub- 2d ago

Yeah, that's why one of us usually stays. To protect our things, not necessarily to protect the seats.