Forward Thinking

Have you ever sat behind one of those forward leaners in an auditorium or sporting event? You don’t see the stage or the field do you? Some of these people lean forward for the whole movie or the whole game. Do these folks not understand that the whole seating design only works if you lean back in your seat? What’s with all this forward leaning? Do these folks not have seat backs at home? Do they have stool seats in their cars? The obvious solution is to identify these forward leaners, and have them sit together in a special section. Let them sit behind their peers and experience what we’ve experienced...   

I sat behind a forward leaner at “Wicked” a few years ago. We were in the back row of the balcony. This leaner was big. How big, you ask? He so big that not only could I not see, I couldn’t hear. The guy absorbed most of the sound. That’s big. I hear it’s a great musical…