Found my first a-hole on the Blue Server

[shovelquest]

AITA for refusing to honor “cold rules” and not letting empty chairs hold spots in line?

My boyfriend and I showed up at 8:00am to GameStop for the Pokémon card drop. We sat in our car until 8:30, and during that whole 30 minutes nothing about the line changed.

When we finally got out, I saw 3 actual people standing in line, then 6 empty chairs, and then 2 people sitting in chairs after the empty ones. Those 6 chairs had been empty the entire time we were watching.

I walked up to the two people at the end and asked if they were in line. They said yes, and that the back of the line was behind them. I said, “Okay, cool scoot up and we can get behind you.” They refused and said the 6 empty chairs were “saving spots” for people who were waiting in their cars. They told me it was the “cold rules” and I had to respect them.

I told them I wasn’t doing that. If you’re not physically in line, a chair doesn’t hold your place. So again I offered for them to get in front of us, they said no so my boyfriend and I got behind the 3 actual people in line and waited for about an hour. Twenty minutes before opening, all the people who had been sitting in their cars suddenly got out, ran to claim their empty-chair spots, and immediately started complaining that we “cut” them.

When the GameStop employee came out, people were yelling at us. I explained that when we arrived there were 3 people, then empty space, then these two people at the end. I even tried to get the two at the end to move up in front of us, but they refused because of their “cold rules.” The employee confirmed that chairs do not save your spot… but also said that we still “technically cut” because there were 2 people in line we got in front of.

I’m genuinely confused how that counts as cutting when I literally asked them to move up so we could get behind them, and they refused. People were screaming enough that we just left and went to Best Buy instead, where we got cards with no drama.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAssho...rules_and_not/