Hive Mentality
Avis and I went to see the HD showing of the Met’s production of Sigfried yesterday at a movie theater here in South Carolina. It was a small theater, with a posted capacity of 159. We arrived 10 minutes early, and were alone in the room, so we got to choose good seats, row high enough and in the center. A total of 9 people, including us, eventually attended. But what gets me is that four of those other seven decided to sit directly in front of us! Choosing from 157 other seats, they needed to clump up right by us.
This was not the first time–at the previous showing of Don Giovanni, we were also alone until five people arrived, who decided to sit right next to us, and then decided they didn’t like those seats, so they got up and moved–directly behind us! All this in an otherwise empty theater.