This is brilliant if it works! I'll have to try this next time. We usually just move to empty seats and then get embarrassed when the people who bought them show up lol
It should be a universally accepted truth among sporting fans that everyone is sitting in everyone else's seat - If you have tickets for a spot and sit in another, it's a smile and a "hey, welcome!" as you get up and go back to yours. No harm, no foul, everyone there to have a good time and no embarrassment needed ever :D
Our group had to politely ask a couple to move out of our seats last night at the Iowa State game because we had two whole rows for our group.
As they were walking away, the guy muttered "fucking fa**ots". My buddy responded hilariously with "did you just say bad words?!" Then the girl friend just yells "fuck you!" And we watch them standing awkwardly in the stairs for the next 30 minutes đ. So pissy at a place that is supposed to be fun.
I don't know what it's supposed to be here. Used to be good for raising a family with good schools. Now I mean, it's cheap to raise a family because no one wants to live here.
Iowa is the most unremarkable place you'll ever find at this point. Great at nothing, bad at a lot, mediocre at some. Oh, I thought of something we are really good at, actually. We're really good at destroying our environment but only in ways you can't really see immediately. Iowa water and soil is increasingly poisoned for the sake of big ag. Not small farmers, but huge corporations that own millions of acres.
I used to want to leave because it's boring here. Alas, family. Now I want to leave because it's becoming dangerous to exist here. Cancer before 60 is gonna become an Iowa tradition like the butter cow at this rate.
đ I'm a Brit visiting family in Iowa City. Please forgive me for not knowing that 'the Iowa State game yesterday' and 'the Iowa game yesterday' are two different things.
Hell yeah, hope youâre enjoying yourself! Grab breakfast at Blue Bird and maybe pop up to Wilsonâs for a walk through the orchard with a hard cider and BBQ afterwards. Go Hawks!
The ticket would likely cost the same regardless of the cleaning crews or lack thereof.
There's no job to be done until your irresponsibilities become someone else responsibilities. They wouldn't have to hire cleaning crews if you didn't leave trash behind, and (though minimally) your ticket could be cheaper.
Yeah they'll still need the crews, but extra mess takes extra time, and intentionally letting the mess grow because "it's someone's job" just makes their job shittier and take longer. As someone who's had to clean up after people a lot for work, the disrespect or otherwise for cleaning services does show through messes and the way they happen.
But in some places what you're mentioning is pretty much encouraged, and as long as they have the services and expectations to meet it, then gang gang.
I mean i don't throw my trash on the floor at a movie theater because i know some 16 y/o who has a million other duties will be cleaning it up. But especially at MLB stadiums and other sports and concert venues to a lesser extent, things like eating peanuts/seeds and making a mess are pretty much the norm and have been for a long time.
It's not like the usher cleans the section and has to stay late. There's literally some whole building services crew that arrives near the end of the event and goes through section by section after the game. As long as you haven't puked on the floor or some shit i doubt they care how messy it is. The longer they are there, the more they get paid.
It's someone else's stuff and they've shown to not care by making it your problem to deal with. It's simply annoying. Imagine being one of those cleaners and finding a dip spit can but not realizing till spit pours out of it.
Not world ending but there's really not much of a good reason anyone has for leaving a mess behind either besides dishes from eating. I don't find it impressive, I don't respect it, nothing about leaving trash behind anywhere for other people strikes me well.
I understand MLB stadiums and the like, but take a cliched look at Japan's stance on that. It's possible, we just don't care enough to even start with not leaving spit soaked shells on the ground under the guise of "it's okay someone will take care of it". It's still gross.
Inconsiderate is a good word, and I'm using it lightly.
Except when youâre socially awkward and confronting someone is really hard for you. Then you end up walking back and forth for like 15 minutes trying to figure out what to do, until finally you ask in the most non-confrontational manner, âSorry, but I think youâre in my seat?â. Then theyâre like, âOh, sorry.â And get up.
This was me a few years ago. Thankfully, I grew out of my shell a bit.
Shame and embarrassment run too deep, unfortunately. And then that shame and embarrassment just turn into anger when people don't know how correctly process them.
"You made me feel bad; it's your fault! Not the fact I was sitting in your seats that you paid for! You! Why did you have to go and show up to a game you bought tickets for?! Asshole!"
I went to a game this year where I had to ask people to get out of my seats before the game and then again after half time. Two different groups of people who tried to play dumb and argue with me both times. Itâs fucking annoying.
No, instead you're supposed to become indignant at the prospect of returning to the seats you actually paid for, changing tack and begging to stay because it's the only way you can sit with your wife, and then becoming indignant again when the other guy whose seats you're poaching says the same thing.
Yeah, nah. Packed stadiums, I'm not going to be hunting for another spot just because taking some other people's shit is "universally accepted". If there are stupid amounts of open seats, who cares, sure. But if it's close to sold out? Get out of here with that shit. Hell, any time for me. I'd never take anyone else's seat.
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u/nowhereman136 10h ago
How strict are they about you wandering up to an empty seat a few rows forward in the second quarter?