Seeking advice. We have season tickets in section 104, and these are just regular sized seats. The two seats next to ours usually are hubby and wife. On about half or more of our games, wife is replaced by a male friend that is pushing 300LBs+.He would fill two seats if there were no arm rests. As a consequence he makes my seat very uncomfortable. The guy is just too big. Constantly having me to lean away from him. Just sucks. I don’ want to cause a stink, but how do I tell this guy to not infringe on my space? He spills over into my seating area.
Sounds like you aren’t doing anything wrong. Sucks for you. If you say anything you might be accused of body shaming. But that dude should know better.
These seats are very small and narrow. As someone who is slightly bigger frame, I’m also bumping shoulders to whoever is seating next to me. You could ask politely to get more room, but your big neighbor doesn’t have much room to move as well. It sucks how small they made these seats to cram everyone in, but it is what it is I gusss ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You need to gain more weight. Imagine this gentleman trying to enjoy a game and because of a lack of body mass on your part he slumps over and has to watch the game at an angle. I’ve been around UH tailgates for a lot of years. The fatter you are the better Coog you are.
I honestly don’t have a solution for this problem. The large guy can’t shrink himself, but you’re the one who has to deal with the discomfort. This situation is really bad on an airplane, too.
Ok, so this comes as a guy that used to be well over 3 bills (370ish). Stand up for your space. That fat guy didn’t buy your seat. Make him feel uncomfortable that he is in your space.
As a dude that’s bounced between 170 and 250 throughout my life (and a dude that’s been 6’2” at concerts) I guarantee the guy is already uncomfortable.
I am a big guy. Those seats are not big guy friendly. Because of this, we had 3 season tickets to have extra space because we couldn’t get an isle seat. I always strive to get an isle seat so I’m not impeding another person’s space out of courtesy. But sometimes that doesn’t always work out. Our 3 seats were tight. During covid when they rearranged the seating, we were moved to the curvature part of the arena in the corner. Those seats were even TIGHTER!! We were able to get club seats the following year just to have more room. It is also much much worse if everyone is wearing heavy jackets as that takes up even more space. I don’t have a solution to the issue, but as for me, I always tried to get an extra seat or an isle seat because while it makes you uncomfortable, I was uncomfortable as well.
He’s not doing that, though. Big guy is just existing to the best of his ability in his assigned seat. And to make matters more complicated, he didn’t even buy the seat; he was ostensibly invited by his buddy, who bought the seat for his wife. I’m legitimately not seeing what the big guy could or should be doing differently here, besides just declining the seat.
And we all want more empty seats at UH games, right?
Our season tickets are chairs on the concourse or otherwise we couldn’t go to any Coog games.
I am handicapped and can’t walk the stairs anymore and my son is a large man.
No way my son would attempt to sit in a regular seat. He would stand first.