That darn empty seat

Today Cody made an appointment for Carley and I to head to the tire store to get the valve stem (or something like that) checked on our car. As many of you know, a tire store is not the easiest place to entertain a two year old for an hour........no toys, no tv. Plus it was pouring rain this morning so my original plan to walk to McDonalds or a donut shop wasn't going to work in that eather. So Carley and I walk in (dripping wet because I can never find my umbrella when it rains) and go to the counter. When I walk in I see that the room is full of men. Literally, all men. They are ALL sitting with an empty seat between them. So Carley and I head to the counter to check in and all of that and I start thinking, "One of these nice guys will move next to eachother so I can sit with my daughter and our large diaper bag of toys". After about 3 minutes at the counter I turn around to find a seat and no one had moved. Some of these guys were in their 40s and 50s so I know that at least a couple of them must be fathers and feel my pain. No one gets up. I just stand there looking for a place, when my vocal little girl in pigtails and a princess shirt says, "Mommy, where are we going to sit? I do not see a chair for me and a chair for you." Carley is not a whisperer by any stretch and I know they all heard her. I said I didn't know and did the look around the room again. All the guys were looking every direction but at us so they could avoid my eye contact. Finally she stood in front of me while I sat in a chair. After 30 minutes one of the guys got finished and left and we finally could sit together.

Why can't men sit next to eachother? I get the comfort factor, but when two that are clearly together need to sit together, then they should be man enough to move over. Do they really think that they are going to come across as a homosexual for sitting next to another man in the tire store? Ugh.