Find a seat in the theater

Recently, I met the author @enqing who works in the theater and wrote some anecdotes about the theater, mainly from westerners, but I found it interesting. I often go in and out of the theater, I have seen a lot of things, and I write a few words at will.

I believe what happens most often is probably sitting out of position, and it's always after the movie opens, so there's a chance to get in the way. Most cases can be resolved privately, and many times it is easy to find out who is right and who is wrong. I have noticed that many people have no basic common sense about the seating arrangement in the theater. Most theaters have branches and use English letters. A is usually the first line in the front row, and then count down to the last row in order (some theaters will skip some confusing letters, such as I, O, etc.). Depending on the size of the theater, some can go to Z. If it still needs to be continued, it is usually continued with AA and BB, but nowadays, it is not common. Then each seat has a number, from 1, 2, 3 to ten or even twenty, but it must be in order. Some theaters start counting from the left-hand side (in terms of facing the screen), and some start from the right.

This structure has been used for many years, similar to the mathematical coordinate position, the X-axis and the Y-axis, it is not too complicated. And when you buy a ticket, you have a picture to see, know where the screen is, the approximate location of the seat, whether it is next to the aisle, etc. Therefore, there has been no escorted service for a long time (you can still request it if you need it), and self-service forms have long since become routine. The most common one should be the audience at No. 1, who thinks that the one on the channel is No. 1, but in fact it should be the one on the farthest side. Once, an audience member was sitting in the last row. After the opening, another audience member came to the same position. Everyone compared the tickets. The former one stood up and walked forward. There should be a big difference between the last row and the front row, so you should know that when buying tickets. Another time, a spectator walked up and down the courtyard several times, and read it carefully with the ticket for many times, but he was still at a loss, and finally other people helped him to find a seat. Her seat is I1 (the first digit of the row I (I in the English letter IJK)), but she sees it as 11 (the number eleven), so she can't find it after a long search.

The most bizarre sitting misplaced incident I have ever seen is that everyone's tickets are in the same two positions, and finally the staff will handle it. After careful study with a flashlight in the dark, I finally found that it was a ticket for a different day! The tickets for the first two people are from a month later. They completely misremembered the date, and they had to find the end of the ticket. I hope they will remember it then.

It seems that many people do not have a sense of direction. They can get completely lost, especially in sealed spaces. Finally, I would like to remind the late spectators that if you need to use a flashlight to illuminate the road, please keep a low light on the few steps in front of you, instead of directly illuminating the audience, the merits are boundless🙏, thank you.