What To Do In A Touchy Situation?

my daughter went to see a play tonight. her ticket cost $65.50. seats were near the stage. she went with a friend.

when my daughter was shown to her seat there was a very large woman in the seat next to my daughter's. my daughter's seat was in the up position. the woman sitting in the next seat was so large that her upper thigh was blocking my daughter from lowering her seat so she could sit down. she said to the woman "excuse me" and the woman shifted her weight as my daughter lowered her seat. when it was lowered the woman's thigh/leg was coming under the armrest and onto my daughter's seat. the woman was so large that she was unable to sit back in her seat. she had to sit on the front half of the chair through the entire performance.

my daughter scooted as far away from the woman as she could get. she ended up sharing her $65.50 seat with this stranger.

my kid has issues about getting close to people she doesn't know, and touching them. she gets claustrophobic too.

what a weird situation--i'm guessing she was rather preoccupied with this closeness off and on through most of the show. it was the first thing she described to me when she got home.

and tell her to stop being so fat.

Seriously, there's not much that can be done, is there? Public facilities should have better accommodations for large people, but in their absence, you can't expect large folk to stay at home. Just have to suck it up, I guess.

If it was a serious problem for her, the only real thing to do would talk to the management about being moved or get replacement tickets for another night.

she thought about talking to a manager, but couldn't think of a good solution/outcome so she didn't. she was embarrassed and didn't want to embarrass the woman sitting next to her.

that this is going to happen once in a while, it was just your daughter's turn!

There doesn't seem to be a solution that will not hurt the fat lady's feelings.