Cinema experience from hell

I originally posted this in the Dubai subredit and for some reason some admin got uptight and decided to ban me even though this post literally breaks no rules

So everyone always talk about some of their bad experiences at the cinema. I doubt anyone has had a story like this. Let me preface this by saying this took place over a year ago now, I even remember it to the day, July 15.

So I went to Reel Cinemas in Dubai Mall to watch the newly released Mission Impossible. I was in Dubai for 4 days (living in Abu Dhabi) and decided to go to the cinema that afternoon instead of the beach because it was so hot the day before. I booked an afternoon show like 3pm because I figured it would be more quiet in the cinema. I even booked a seat with nobody behind me.

So I the get to my seat and the adverts start etc. Now someone does end up sitting behind me. So I'm sitting and then boom the person behind me hits my chair so hard. I didn't say anything. Now this ends up happening like 4 times. This person is like kicking my chair and kicking it hard. So we're maybe 15 mins in the movie at this point. I turn around and tell the person can you stop kicking my chair.

I see it's a lady. She tells me she has a kid and it's for her legs and I should move. I quickly glance to the seats near her and there are no kids it's just her so I told her she can move why should I move.

And now the chaos begins. This unbehaved woman starts purposely kicking my chair and pressing against it. So everytime she kicks and presses on my seat I just move my seat back. And when I'm moving my seat back I'm just moving it to its natural position because this she's kicking and pressing it forward.

This happens a few times but then I stop because I told myself just let it go and no need for drama and trouble. Then she kicks my chair harder than she has the whole time and I push back. By this point I had enough I got up to go tell security. Now she gets up too and she tells me fuck you. And I'm like what did you say? And she's the one now who's telling me to wait because she's getting security! I literally got up first to go to security and she's acting like as if she's not the one that's been making this mess and she now told me fuck you so i could even press charges on her.

And now the situation takes a huge curve ball. We go out of the cinema and I see she's heavily pregnant. Immediately i tell myself oh FFS. When she said she has a kid she meant she was pregnant and that's what she also meant about the tight space for her legs. The cinema was dark and I was a seat below her so I couldn't tell she was pregnant. And so now I'm like no matter what happens everyone will think I'm the bad guy. She's pregnant and I'm a guy making trouble for a pregnant woman. It wouldn't matter that she's the unbehaved one and even swore at me. She started everything and if she had some manners she could have come to me before she sat and asked me to move because of her situation and I would have. But instead she thinks she owns the cinema and can freely kick someone's chair.

So then the staff tells me to wait because she wants to escalate matters! She wants to now play the victim. And so literally the head of Dubai Mall security comes to the cinema. I explained the whole situation to him as exactly what happened. He told me ok and went and got her side of story. What she said basically matched up to everything I said and the head of security even told her what you're saying corroborates to what I'm saying and that I had no idea she was pregnant.

The guy tells her straight up it's better to just end the matter or if she wants to head down and lodge a police case. Then she starts saying hmmmmmm hmmmmm will it take time a long process etc etc. She's like can I think about it and decide later and he's like no. If you leave now the matter is settled. What's worse is she was pretending that she was in pain, that the chair hit her belly which is literally physically impossible as the chair doesn't go that back. Eventually she's like no she doesn't want to file anything because she's now tired and wants to go home.

I knew whatever happened all the evidence was with me. Cinemas have infared cameras so they would see she started all the trouble and even said F you to me. So she ends up leaving and the head of security tells me it's fine and he understands what happened but it was better if I just went to security from the beggining. lol I mean I did eventually go to security but I was always going to look like the bad guy because she was pregnant.