Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Okay so this may seem like a really small issue, but it’s caused a lot of tension between my girlfriend and me.

I always tend to double check places before I leave them to make sure I didn’t lose anything, and the movie theatre being dark and all makes it a significant place for anxiety. My girlfriend and I went to the theatre and once the movie ended, I got up and did my usual routine: search under the chair and around for a couple seconds to make sure we didn’t drop anything.

Here is where the problem is. In the process of searching around, I was holding up people from leaving their aisle and the theatre. In my mind, it was easier for me to take a few seconds to search around instead of have them awkwardly squeeze by us.

My girlfriend has begun to use this as evidence for how unaware I am of my surroundings and how I can be immature, as it was rude and inconsiderate of me to have held those people up. She says that I took too much of their time while I was searching around (it couldn’t have been more than 4-5 seconds, and she agrees on this) and that if I was more considerate, I would have let them go first. I find this unfair, because I thought it might’ve just been easier to quickly search and then head out instead of causing an awkward scene where people had to pass by me. They also could’ve gone the other way if it was that much of an inconvenience. 

AITA for checking around for a brief amount of time to make sure I didn’t leave anything instead of letting people go ahead of me right away? 