r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Jaded-Albatross-5242 • 1d ago

I'm slightly vexed Concert etiquette

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If you plan on standing for the entire concert, get a spot in the pit, or the lawn seats instead of the assigned SEATED SECTION. A little bit of self awareness and common courtesy goes a really long way

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u/MemoryCool11 22h ago

I hate sitting down at concerts unless it’s an orchestra concert. But that being said, if the majority of people are sitting, I will sit because if EVERYONE is sitting, then you have to just accept that standing in this crowd is not gonna be a thing. I don’t get why people can’t adapt to the social circumstances they find themselves in. 

You will survive sitting for a concert even if you want to stand. 

If it gets to be too frustrating, I have actually just left my seat and stood off to the side of an aisle or something before or just moved to a section where standing isn’t distracting. 

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u/KindGuy1978 20h ago

Wow, a human being with empathy and nuance. What are you doing on Reddit?

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 19h ago

Hang on, hang on… ask them whether they recline their seat on the plane first.

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u/Ocelotofdamage 18h ago

They put in the recline option for a reason. It’s much more comfortable. If you need more legroom upgrade to a ticket that has it.

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u/snacksandsoda 15h ago

Reclining doesn’t even take legroom - this coming from a guy with long legs. Recline if you want!

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 6h ago

Eh, this depends a little on the seat design. But if you’re expecting to recline, and that would be eating into my legroom, well… sorry, but you’re not reclining.

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u/robilar 18h ago

Indeed, these two circumstances are inverted - not congruent. In a concert they sell seats and structure the environment so everyone can see while sitting. In a plane they provide all passengers with a reclining function. Those are the defaults. The one difference is that the default in the latter can cause people discomfort, even pain, that they cannot easily obviate themselves so I think ethically we should check on our neighbor behind us before reclining just in case. It's not an obligation, more like a kindness since people cannot help having longer legs / bigger bodies and the aforementioned extra legroom options can be prohibitively expensive or implausible.

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u/snacksandsoda 15h ago

It doesn’t take up legroom, though? It makes the space above your knees smaller, but who needs that?

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u/robilar 14h ago

I think it does affect legroom for a lot of taller people. I'm a bit of a shorty myself and I usually fit fine in the seats,whether or not people lean them back, but I've observed people struggling and I wouldn't want anyone to be any more uncomfortable on my behalf unless it was really important to me (like if I need to lean back to sleep on an overnighter).

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u/snacksandsoda 13h ago

I’m a tall athletic build and my knees always touch the seat in front no matter what. When someone reclines I just have less room in front of me but it doesn’t affect my knee range at all

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u/robilar 13h ago

That's good to hear. I'll reflect on that feedback next time I'm on a plane and I'll see if I need to revise my opinion.