The original post: /r/mildlyinfuriating by /u/bradphoria on 2024-12-17 21:40:48.

Your classic primary/elementary school nativity performance (6-7yr olds), strict limit of two tickets per child issued to us parents with a unique printed number (1 to 120ish). On entry we were told to sit in our assigned seat so there was no stampede for best seats. Then we realise they’ve numbered the chair backs sequentially from 1 but each row is eleven seats wide. So every sixth kid’s parents are split up with one at the extreme left of the room and the other at the far opposite side on the row in front. Madness.