Seating

When I was in seminary, I did a paper for my Communications major on where people sit in a theatre. Have you ever noticed that if you go into a theatre, everyone sits in the middle? The middle seats always fill up first. Okay, people want to look at something straight on, but it is uncanny what they will do. If you are the first one to sit down in a movie theatre in the middle, the next people coming in will sit in front of you. The next people will sit behind you. And so on. It is quite rude for someone to come in and sit right in front of you. I have been known to move a few seats over. But, if you want to get an unobstructed view, you can sit on the side. No one sits there. People who sit on the side are weird. Outcasts. Individuals. No friends. People who sit in the middle are conformists. Want to belong. Part of a family. One other thing about audiences. If you ever want to have fun with unsuspecting people, watch a movie and all of a sudden start laughing. Total strangers will laugh too for no reason. They want to belong and conform. Maybe you saw something funny that they don't get. They want to appear like they got it. It is a fascinating bit of human nature. Try it sometime. Just don't everybody do it all at once.