More recently the local cinemas in my area got the brilliant idea to start doling out assigned seating and taking reservations to go along with the renovations they've been making to add fancy new reclining chairs that literally cut the holding capacity of any given stadium more or less in half. Because of this the past few times I've gone to see a movie it's been a real pain in the ass to get enough seats to accommodate myself with/near any of my family, to the point that for SHAZAM! and Hellboy my brother and I had to snipe supposedly booked seats to avoid being crammed directly in front of the screen to get our ears blown out by a speaker just so we could actually watch the aforementioned movies.

Enter today.

So given the previously aforementioned drama last week I pre-ordered tickets ahead of time to watch Avengers: Endgame with my family today, even picked up the tickets yesterday after work just so we could avoid standing in line. We get to the theater where we come to find out that the theater screwed up and gave me tickets for next week. Naturally we hunted down the manager who assured us that he was absolutely useless, couldn't do anything about it, and sought to placate us by scattering us in the very front row to which there is next to no visibility if you actually want to watch the movie let alone leave with your hearing intact. Ultimately refused on the grounds that the mistake was on their end and demanded he give us our money back, and naturally the movie is sold out for the rest of the weekend and most of the upcoming week so regardless of what theater we go to we won't be watching the movie any time soon.