Tall 16-year-old girl harassed by older concert-attendees over her height in the crowd: 'They asked me to move behind them as I was blocking the way

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    "They ended up getting really annoyed and making snide comments and nudging me all night."
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    "AITA for not moving behind shorter people at a concert?"

    I (16F) was at a concert eith my friend (16F) and on the queue in the way in I heard a couple (early 20s) poimt me out, giggle and say about how they'd hate to be my height (6'9, 205cm) and how it's so ugly for a girl to be my height. Then when we got into the venue me and my friend were stood in front of them (my friend is 5'8 and they were maybe 5'9 and 5'4) and they asked me to move brhind them as I was blocking the way.
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    I said no as we got here first, my friend isn't tall and if I move back, the people behind them will be asking me to move and I'm not moving to the back. They ended up getting really annoyed and making snide comments and nudging me all night. AITA?
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    OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the a hole: I deliberately didn't move cause they made those comments and knew they wouldn't be able to see
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    • BluePopple 2h ago NTA, you were kinder than me. I'd have used their words against them and said you're glad you're so tall because being short like them is ugly. (I'm quite short, btw.) Being short in concert and event venues stinks, but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
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    201thStabwound 2h ago Absolutely not. I go to lots of local metal shows, and am on the taller side. At first, I always would move out of the way and make my experience worse to cater to other people, when in reality if it bothers them that much, they can just move. It isn't your fault that you're tall, and you shouldn't diminish your experience because of something you can't control.
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    Tdluxon 2h ago NTA If it's general admission, stand wherever, not your problem what it going on behind you, they can move if they don't like their view.
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    burnt-heterodoxy • 1h ago It really s ks as a 5'5" person to get stuck behind someone so tall especially when they look right at you and stand in front of you and block everything and don't give a sh... but the comments were super uncalled for so... ESH
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    Relevant-Reply 3083 • 2h ago NTA you paid just as much to stand there as they did you both have the same ticket general admission means get there early if you want a good spot. Also, even if you were an a hole, they would have deserved it for sh talking a random kid in line in front of them
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    LIRUN21-007 2h ago • NTA, and it sounds like perfect karma to me. If you had squeezed in in front of them after they had gotten their spots, that's one thing (but even then, based on what you're saying, they would have deserved it in this case), but you got your spot first, so that's tough sh for them.
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    YarhibolSaliceel40k 44m ago • One time i was at pikes place market in WA for their christmas events, and it was absolutely packed shoulder to shoulder, im 6 5 and was 1 row back from the front row and people kept asking me to move away from my family so they could see santa claus and his scantly dressed helpers dancing, of course i said no and to go find another place to watch.
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    Quirky-Biscotti1551 • 44m ago k to get I'm 5'0" and it does s stuck behind a tall person at a concert. This is why every time I go to a GA show I really want to see, I show up early enough to get a barricade or stage spot. I also dated someone who was 6'7" for eleven years and if he had let everyone in front of him who was shorter than him, we'd have ended up at the back of every venue every time. NTA, they should've gotten there earlier to get better spots.
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