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Most obnoxious seat hogging tactics?

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I find this highly offensive. I am a slim person myself and once I have purchased my ticket, I can sit anywhere I wish on the train. If somebody with your bizarre attitude said anything to me about the seat I had chosen for myself, I would tell he/she to mind their own business and learn some manners.

For the record I meant small as in height. Of course you can sit in any seat you like, I never said it was wrong simply annoying in my opinion. Usually it's moot on a train as leg room is less of a problem than it is on buses.
Height is a genetic quirk and cannot be controlled, similar in concept but not in scale to have a genetic disorder affecting one's ability to walk and it's hardly rude or unmannered to ask if I could sit there so I'm not kneeing myself in the chin, you may say no of course but it'd be you needing to learn some manners if you gave the curt response above.
 
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Feet on the seats is the most obnoxious. Second is anything dirty on the seat - both they and I know that someone is unlikely to sit on a dirty seat.

Try telling people that - they just complain them you tell them to remove their feet from the seats!
 

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For the record I meant small as in height. Of course you can sit in any seat you like, I never said it was wrong simply annoying in my opinion.
Seats with the most legroom are often marked as Priority Seats. It doesn't say anything about keeping them for tall people. What next, wide seats reserved for fat people?
 

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For the record I meant small as in height. Of course you can sit in any seat you like, I never said it was wrong simply annoying in my opinion. Usually it's moot on a train as leg room is less of a problem than it is on buses.

I'll sit where I like, thanks.:roll:
 

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What next, wide seats reserved for fat people?

I wish - it's horrible being wedged up against the window by someone who would have been charged for 2 seats on a plane. Worse still if there's a table and you need to be off at the next station.
 

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I wish - it's horrible being wedged up against the window by someone who would have been charged for 2 seats on a plane. Worse still if there's a table and you need to be off at the next station.

I shall resist the temptation to suggest "trampolining"...


Oops.... :lol:
 
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What next, wide seats reserved for fat people?

Great idea. That, or charge them for two seats as they're potentially taking up the space (and weight) of two average people after all. It's not the most enjoyable experience having a long journey in a seat next to someone who is literally spilling across the armrest into your seat space.
 

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I saw a woman who took up the entire seat bay around a table with bags and all sorts of rubbish on the table ,everyone got a stare as they walked up the carriage implying try and move my stuff if you dare.This was on a BR train back in the seventies so its been going on for a long time.
 

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I feel good about myself today. Got a train in to town this morning (about the only person NOT going to the Olympics by the look of it) and as the train was declassified, I went and grabbed a family standing in the vestibule and let them sit on a group of 4 seats, moving to another one! They were initially a bit worried about coming into FC, and normally I wouldn't go rushing to tell others (our little secret) but there's a really good vibe around the Games!

On the way back, there must have been 30-40 police officers on the train and virtually all were standing to allow passengers to sit down.
 

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Seats with the most legroom are often marked as Priority Seats. It doesn't say anything about keeping them for tall people. What next, wide seats reserved for fat people?

A spurious comparison since weight is environmental rather than genetic.
 

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A spurious comparison since weight is environmental rather than genetic.

Not necessarily. A number of conditions, some caused by genetic defects can cause weight gain.


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Not necessarily. A number of conditions, some caused by genetic defects can cause weight gain.


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what the see food and eat it diet :)

of course they are conditions which cant be helped. but not for 50% of the population
 

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17:30 ex Holyhead 03/08. Pregnant woman gets on with two kids under 5 (so ticketless). Proceeds to lay them down across two seats each in a bay of 4 and covers them with coats and tells them to go to sleep. Rest of train is now full and standing so she demands that the person sitting in the priority seat behind her unpaid-for nursery vacates the seat so she can sit down. The fool does so and ends up sitting on the floor in the vestibule.

Nearly as good as the woman we saw change her baby's nappy on the seat in a Pendolino a few years back. Lets say the baby had not been very well. The Disabled (universal access including baby change table) toilet was two bays away.
 

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Not necessarily. A number of conditions, some caused by genetic defects can cause weight gain.


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And thinner, should see how much someone on a certain drug can eat and still not put weight on...

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Interestingly, I heard a pre-recorded announcement at Leicester and Nottingham today from EMT control asking people not to place their luggage on seats to ensure that the maximum number of seats were available for people to sit in.

Unsure whether this is something left over from the Olympics, or a new initiative of some kind!
 

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Obnoxious as in, well, obnoxiously subtle, boarded a busy train from Wolverhampton to Birmingham and noticed an empty table so we all sat down. A few minutes into the journey a guy walks up - grabs a small book we hadn't noticed that was left on the table and snaps "thank you very much!". Says he was keeping the seats, so we stand up to let him have his table, and sit opposite in two lots of two.. Nobody else joined him for the whole journey.
 

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After reading this thread I feel quite guilty for hogging a bay of 6 on a 323 most mornings - sat in the aisle seat, bag to side, long legs stretched out under the seat opposite and a pile of metros I've collected up from all 6 seats scattered across the two diagonally opposite.
 
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