Seat Hopping

The thing that has fast become my greatest pet peeve at BYU is when people walk into class and sit on the very end chair, simply because they are too lazy to walk to the middle of the row. This irritates me to death. I have to apologetically and carefully walk over them, falling on them occasionally and looking foolish. This is not my fault, however. It is the person, who in their short-sightedness, sat two seats into the row, when there were eighteen seats in between them and the other aisle. I will admit to occasionally being a guilty party myself, but for every time I have had people crawl over me to get to a seat, I have had to squeeze by someone at least three times to reach a seat of my own. Often I simply walk until someone blocks my path, and then take a seat. If the person had sat nearer the middle, consequently I would have too. But the awkwardness of asking if I can go past them and having to either wait for them to stand up to clear a pathway or to acrobatically maneuver around them isn’t worth the effort. My personal solution to this problem thus far is to arrive at class as early as possible and sit as near to the middle as I can. If there are twenty, fifty, or a hundred open seats, I won’t have to climb over anybody. If I sit in the middle, I won’t have anyone climbing over me. However, my new course schedule has made this a difficult task. For example, to get from the MARB to the JKB before the rest of the people in my Book of Mormon class is nearly impossible. Consequently I find myself almost always having to move past at least a few people to arrive at a seat. Perhaps I am blowing this all out of proportion, but I don’t think I can understate how frustrating it can be to have five people give you a dirty look as you walk past them, when in reality, if they had sat only a few seats farther in, the problem wouldn’t exist in the first place.