'I'm not giving up more expensive seats for ones I don’t want': 20+ times people have put entitled reserved-seat-stealing Karens in their place

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jul 30, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

"When you reserve a seat, it is yours. There should never even have to be a discussion about it."

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  • How annoying is it when you finally decide to treat yourself and spend big bucks to get the exact seats in the exact place you want, but then when you get there someone is sitting in them? That's already annoying. But it makes it even worse when you approach them to tell them that they are sitting in the seats you paid extra for and they make it a big deal that they have to move. Like, how entitled can you be? 

    This happens all too often—on airplanes, at concerts, sporting events, and more. You can't avoid the inevitable entitled Karen who thinks just because they were there first, they now own a stake in that spot. Actually, Karen, the reason people buy the exact seat they want ahead of time is that it is reserved for them no matter how late they get there, to ensure they get that seat. Being entitled does not reserve you the best seat in the house. 

    See how tons of people have handled this exact situation and put these Karens in their place. 

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    CH "I think he was trying to get sympathy points for the better seats..."
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    Woman tries to guilt my family into giving her a seat we reserved S Once, I was at a parade in my city. My entire extended family was there. So think about 15 people total. My grandpa had reserved some seats for us all. We get there and a woman and her kid were sitting in two of them. My grandpa told her we reserved them. She looks at her daughter and says "Well, I guess we better give him his seats..." probably expecting us to feel bad and say "No, it's ok!" We didn't. Instead our group just st
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    NymphZenRobot • 2d ago This past Wednesday we were on Amtrak in reserved seats. When we go on of course there was a couple in our seats. When we said they were our seats they just replied "well someone's in our seats. So...". Nope I just looked at them until they moved. 847 Reply
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    Hemiak 2d ago I love when they try the passive aggressive "well I guess we have to...." And start moving slowly and acting sad. Perfect opportunity to go "Great, thanks for understanding!" 1.2K Reply
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    carmium 2d ago Kinda reminds me of tennis lessons at the public courts years ago. One pair of courts was reserved for community centre lessons for a couple of hours on certain days. This was posted prominently at the entrance to the courts. As 2 PM arrived, the players using the site packed up and left, much to the delight of an impatient young Karen and her friends who had been waiting for, you know, hours to get a court. Our instructor told her the courts were reserved from 2 to 4 to her absol
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    • Alycion 2d ago I have season tickets to my local NHL team. At least once a season I have someone argue with me that they are their seats. I had one guy demanding we move. I'm like dude, these have been my seats for 8 years, I think I know where I sit my now. He threatened to go get the usher. I just started laughing. I'm like go ahead, she knows who the STMs are.
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    In this particular case, he bought section over. That's usually the case. But mine are pretty much center ice. So when they make this mistake, they don't want to go. I'm always in my seats at doors unless if I go to the glass for warmups. So this time I'm sitting there eating as this starts. When he found out he was a section over, instead of saying sorry, I get well you get these seats every game, you could trade. I told him he was welcome to buy any games I'm selling and went back to eating. H
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    think he was trying to get sympathy points for the better seats with it being his kid's first game. I took 3 seasons figuring out where I wanted my seats. I got lucky my first year and got my section. I'm not giving up more expensive seats for ones I don't want. If I wanted to sit in that section and be off of center ice, if pay a lot less a month to do so. 193 Reply
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    The_Original_Gronkie 1d ago • For many years, my Dad had NFL season tickets in the same spot in the stadium. A radio station owned 2 season tickets on each side of us, and every week theyd give them away as a set if four. We would get to our seats, and there would be people in them, and they would expect us to move down 2 seats so the four of them could sit together.
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    The problem was that the stadium was old, with a lot of poles in it, and my Dad had long ago found these perfect seats where we could see the entire field with no poles in the way. If we moved over 2 seats, then the poles blocked the view of parts of the field. So we got used to telling people to get out of our seats, and then we'd ignore their evil side eye throughout the game.
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    One day, my Dad took my brother to a game. He told my brother to head up to the seats while he used the rest room and got a beer. When he went up the steps to the seats, he found my brother sitting on the steps at our row. When my Dad looked over he saw a bunch of nuns in our seats. He told them they were our seats, and they said, "Yes, but we couldn't see from our seats. They're down there, you can use those." My Dad said "Why would I want seats where we can't see, I want to sit in my seats." T
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    ThistleBeeGreat . 2d ago I have four well-located season tickets to our local University (also our Alma mater) football team. Sometimes we only use two seats, because our kids are grown. I like the open seats because I'm short and like to move where I can see better. I've had many people just presume to sit there without even asking if the seats are taken. One even got very offended when I mentioned that they were sitting in our seats. "Huh, you want me to MOVE??????" Why yes, yes I do.
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    It just seems very entitled as each seat for each game probably costs me over $200 with ticket cost plus "donation". I wish it didn't bother me but it does. 55 Reply ...
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    exBobomb 1d ago • I had people do this at a campsite | reserved, acting all entitled when I asked them to pack their move their two trucks and 26 Reply
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    unicacher 2d ago • When my kids were in grade school, one of the big fundraising items was an auction for four front and center seats for the winter program. We'd save all of our donation budget for that one item for like six years running and grabbed it every time. We were going to give money to the school anyways, so we made it worth it. (Also, there were a couple of families we were friends with that we joyfully competed against.) I always felt a bit of entitlement picking our seats every yea
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    AutomaticAnt6328 • 1d ago I was at an event that had bench seating for about 20 people. I get to the row where my assigned seat is, and everyone else was already seated. They had spread out to the point I couldn't even see where my seat was supposed to be. I just said, "Excuse me." as I made my way to where I thought my seat should be and there was like a 3 inch space. The people on either side attempted to make room, but then they started butting up to the people next to them.
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    I noticed 90% of the people in my row were men (I am not) and I stood there and loudly said to the entire row, "This man-spreading isn't going to work. You all need to put your knees together and make some room." You would have thought I asked them to give me their wallets with the way they were looking at me, but there was no denying how much extra space they were taking up and they begrudgingly made more room.
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    You would have thought I asked them to give me their wallets with the way they were looking at me, but there was no denying how much extra space they were taking up and they begrudgingly made more room. It felt silently awkward for about 5 mins until I started talking to the guy next to me, and we really hit it off almost immediately to the point his wife, seated beside him, looked a little ended up having a great time. but I 14 Reply
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    Amylynncooper50 11h ago • I was on a flight to Texas from Florida a few weeks ago with my 3 year old granddaughter. We board and find a couple of women in our seats. It's a small plane, so there are 2 seats per row on each side. I smile politely and say these are our seats. They look at me and laugh, they tell me, "Sorry, we want to sit next to each other and our seats are separated. You can take our seats instead. They are in front of each other.
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    " I say."No, I want the seats I paid for, and she's only 3, I need to keep her with me." One of them actually had the nerve to say they were already set and not moving. As you know, we are holding up the progress of boarding. The flight attendant comes over and asks what's the problem is. Before I can say anything, they say I am bothering them for their seats that they got to first. The flight attendant asks to see all of our boarding passes. I hand her ours, and they claim they don't know what
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    tells them they have to move, as these are our seats. They tell her there are no assigned seats, and they were there first. She tells them to either move or she's calling security. They call me and the attendant b@#$%es! She tells them to move to their seats. She apologizes to me, and we get seated. Everyone behind us says sorry for the girls behavior. I smile as I get Aria settled. After everyone is seated, the attendant brings me a mini bottle of wine and Aria a snack and soda. She tells me to
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    LanieLove9 19h ago • i was on a flight to venice from london last year, and my mom and i had a window and a middle seat reserved for us both. when we got to the row, there was an older italian woman already sitting in the window seat. i tried to ask her if she could move so that my mom could have the window seat, and she said that she didn't speak english. she very obviously knew what i was saying, so i just stood there and stared at her until she got up and let my mom and i in the row to our re
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    pinkflower200 1d ago • We went to a concert in NYC and was late getting to the concert. The usher took us to our reserved seats and two men were in our seats. They looked annoyed that we actually showed up for the concert! One guy said "Thanks for coming!" when he had to give up his seat that belonged to one of us. 쇼 2 2 3 Reply
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    BlueGreen 1956 2d ago • When you reserve a seat, it is yours. There should never even have to be a discussion about it. 13 Reply
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