AITA for asking kids to move at a baseball game?
Ok, here’s the story:
my partner and I bought tickets to a “cosmic baseball” game. It’s like Savannah bananas just under black lights.
The seats were located on the far left of field, way in the outfield pretty much the last seating before the general seating in the grass. My partner has a broken foot so I made sure it was aisle seats and they were right against the barrier (so the first row against the field) so we’d still get a good view.
We completely understood that this was a family event so kids were expected.
When first got there, there were kids all lined up right in front of our seats. We shuffled in and most kids took off with 2 staying in front of us. One of the kids started to back up into my bf, almost stepping on his broken foot, I said “oooh ohh watch out” and gestured to his boot. She looks down and said sorry, no issues. I assume their parents were nearby because at one point her head snapped back and she talked to someone and then her and her brother moved over more out of the viewing way. They still kind of obstructed my bf view but because they were kids and clearly their parents were monitoring them, we let it be, it sucked, but they were trying to get their stuff signed by the outfielders - we understood.
The game took a 30min break to switch things up so we naturally went to go get snacks. When we came back there were a whole new group of kids in front of our seats. So we sat down again. This time it was kids a few years younger than the first few and they were full on standing and swinging on these bars in front of our seats, completely blocking both of our views. The aisles aren’t very big and these kids were damn near sitting on our laps.
So we sat there. HOPING these boys might have parents watching them and maybe tell them to move out of the way like the last kids? After almost 10mins nothing changed. At one point one of the of the boys turned and full on stared at us in the face, like we were in HIS way. Kid could not have been more than 7. So I got fed up and said “could you guys move down a little bit” might’ve said “you’re in our way” and these boys looked at me like I had just hit them.
I actually felt embarrassed for telling a strangers kid what to do? I went through the process of “winning a ticket lottery” and I spent $100 on tix and was looking forward to it for more than 3 months, I just wanted to enjoy the experience.
So was I an asshole for telling these kids to move down even though it was a family event and kids were literally everywhere?
(Side question because I don’t have kids: at a huge packed event like it was, isn’t appropriate to keep more of an eye on your kids? I feel like if that would have been my kid and I noticed, I would have said something (like the first group of kids were told) but I’m a millennial lol so I’m not sure if that’s just how kids are nowadays?)