comment #1

YRG says ...

It's a metaphor for life. Most people just backflop into the chairs they expect to have beneath them. That's the problem with this country. The chair is not too small, they are too big. Pretty soon this gentleman will flop down into a chair that is not built for his heft and it will brake and send him flailing. It's unfortunate that you won't be there to warn him, or at least just watch him fall.

comment #2

rick blaine says ...

What a coincidence! Know exactly what you mean Mr. Wells. And cretins on airplanes must be the worst offenders. Last monday on a flight from Berlin to London, the 300 pound knuckledragger in the seat in front of me went to the toilet 4 times! Every time he returned he literally dropped into his seat like a dead weight. He then spent 20 minutes readjusting the damn thing like John Candy in Planes, Trains. He was quite sinister looking (kinda like Hermann Goring) so I elected to suffer in silence.

comment #3

animal bones says ...

An elegant man always eases himself down onto the seat and gently leans back on his seat.

unless he doesn't like the movie and starts muttering rocking back and forth

comment #4

DiscoNap says ...

The Art of Sitting Down: My Life, By Jeffrey Wells.

comment #5

matt cousens says ...

You may mutter if you conatin multitudes.

comment #6

matt cousens says ...

Or contain, rather. Dammit.

comment #7

Helms Deep says ...

Your behavior in theaters gives you zero room to talk. Plus, an elegant man doesn't wear hipster-doofus yellow sneakers.

comment #8

Science Adventure says ...

2 out of 10. Pretty weak. This is no "long showers are for pussies".

comment #9

DukeSavoy says ...

I'm a sloucher, myself. Hate it when an NBA forward sits down in front of me. Want to slice off his upper half with my katana.

Just so I can see, you understand.

comment #10

kyleb says ...

Also, anybody who reclines their seat on an airplane (in coach) is an asshole. It's just plain rude and unnecessary.

comment #11

Josh Massey says ...

"Also, anybody who reclines their seat on an airplane (in coach) is an asshole."

Thank you. Absolutely. I've known this - literally - since I was FIVE. Never reclined a seat when there is another passenger behind me. But never, not once, has the person in front of me extended the same courtesy.

comment #12

DeeZee says ...

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comment #13

DeeZee says ...

Oh, and I finally found a Lex-worthy photo of Megan Fox I can relate to, too.

comment #14

LexG says ...

What's the general consensus on lean-forwarders?

99% of the universe got the memo that you're to sit back in a movie theater seat, especially so you're not distracting someone by being in their peripheral vision.

But like 1 out of every 50 or so crowded audiences, I'll get some weird dude either next to me or in front of me or somewhere within eyeshot hunching FORWARD in his seat, leaning toward the screen. It's incredibly fucking distracting.

Another weird one you don't get often, but it's strange enough and speaking of CHILDLIKE-- ever get the guy who won't pick up his drink to sip it, but rather leans further to suck on the straw as it rests in the cup-holder? Just really weird and childish and distracting...

And one of these days, I WOULD LOVE to get a Jeff Wells rant on Couples Who Sit On the Same Side of the Booth Together in a Restaurant. This seems to be a HUGE Latino thing, sitting side by side instead of facing each other during a meal. Is this a cultural thing? Anyone else find it ANNOYING or at least awkward if you and your party are sitting adjacent to them or across from them, and have to have this couple facing you for no reason with an empty booth on the side that would normally be someone's back blocking your view?

comment #15

animal bones says ...

Anyone else find it ANNOYING or at least awkward if you and your party are sitting adjacent to them or across from them, and have to have this couple facing you for no reason with an empty booth on the side that would normally be someone's back blocking your view?

you are one fucked up bored guy

comment #16

Romaldi says ...

Or you think someone is waving at you a couple seats over, and you turn only to see it's the white bottom of someone's tennis shoe, perched on top of the empty chair in front of them, about 4 feet to your right. Far enough away where they are not officially invading your space, close enough to smell the rubber tread (at least they were new shoes, so in that way he was considerate). Did I mention that he seemed to have restless leg syndrome? Did I mention that even though a rom-com was on the screen, all I could think of was "Saw?'

comment #17

Floyd Thursby says ...

Have always assumed that the seat floppers know they're so fat and out of shape that bending their legs normally would rip their knees apart.

But what's amazing is that none of them seem remotely aware that their flopping might prove annoying or even dangerous to others.

comment #18

animal bones says ...

or when you turn your head at a 42 degree angle and somebody is sitting with half their back turned feet splayed out and their left hand is at a 68 degree angle and the right hand is static on their lap and their hair shifts and i hate that

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