My son is 7. Yesterday was his school's Christmas concert. Near the end of the show, Santa made a surprise appearance to much fanfare, but my son was not pleased. You see, my son does love Santa, but only from a distance. He has always cried at the thought of having to sit with Santa, so it's something we've never done. When Santa came, my son was in the performance area, and I could see that he was getting perturbed, so I quietly snuck up there and asked him if he wanted to sit and watch with me to avoid Santa. He said yes, so I quietly took him down to my seat.
Then, as we were leaving, one of the other parents came up to me and said that I "ruined the show" and that I should have made my son sit with Santa because it's "part of the show". I just said to him that I wasn't willing to make my son do something that made him uncomfortable, especially if it's something unnecessary like sitting with Santa. If this were something more important, like trying a new food, I would have persisted. But in the greater scheme of things, him skipping a Santa photo at his 2nd grade Christmas concert is unimportant.
What do you think Reddit? AITA?
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So this happened last week and I’m still bewildered by it.
We went to the Elton John concert at Madison Square Garden. It was a pretty large concert, and we were able to get seats on the floor. We were in one of the back sections on the floor, which consisted of chairs set up on risers to create a sloped seating arrangement.
We’re sitting in our seats and the show starts. Everyone in front of us stands up and starts jamming with the music, and we join them. After the second song, the people sitting two rows behind us ask us to sit down. We turn around and see they’re an older couple, surrounded by a bunch of younger couples.
I was trying to be respectful of their situation, so during one of Elton’s slower songs, we sit down, and politely ask the people in front of us to sit down as well. Enough rows sit down in front of us so that we can see the stage.
Well, the song eventually ends and he starts playing Tiny Dancer, we stand back up along with all the people in front of us and next to us. The people behind us ask is to sit down, and we refuse. Eventually, the young couple in the row directly behind us, taps me on the back and asks if we could sit down because the people behind them keep asking. At this point, Philadelphia Freedom is on, and I flat out refuse. Everyone in front of us is standing and I want to stand up and jam.
The older couple starts getting really angry and frustrated, now yelling at us to sit down. We ignore them. When the song finishes, Elton starts playing a slower song, so we sit down along with the people in front of us. The older couple, and the people sitting next to them start clapping sarcastically. I turned around and shot them a dirty look.
So, for the rest of the show, we stood up for pretty much every upbeat song. Eventually, the young couple behind us apologized to us, saying they felt pressured by the people behind them.
It’s an Elton John concert. True, it’s not the kind of music that you’d have a pit to dance in and they provided chairs, but when pretty much everybody in the arena is standing up to jam, why shouldn’t we be allowed to?
AITA for standing up at this concert, despite the people behind me asking me to sit down?
