This February I went on a Twitter rant about my local Cinemark movie theater after a humiliating encounter I had with management over reserved seating. I use a wheelchair that required a handicap space and my companion needed a seat. The problem? The handicap seats had apparently been reserved online. Once the feature started the adjoining seats were still empty, so I transferred out of my wheelchair into a more comfortable seat than my own. Enter three able-bodied twentysomethings who didn’t just want the seat I was in, but the seat my companion had as well. In the end, it wasn’t me who had a seat, but the able-bodied people who had reserved seats they knew were for the disabled. Why couldn’t going out to see a movie be easy? Because if you’re a person living with disabilities, movie theaters aren’t thinking of you.
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