alistairlees
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This has turned out to be a thread with a surprisingly wide range of views.
For what it’s worth:
- If I took this approach I’d never get to sit down on commuter trains to / from London. My commute is almost an hour, every day. The number of times I see people with feet on seats is less than once a week. Probably because the trains are so busy. So I don’t really think about it too much.
- the length of the train makes no difference to whether it happens. I’ll assume the OP meant the length of the journey
- actually I saw a bloke on LNER doing this today. And he had his wheeled case on another seat. A bay of four to himself. The train wasn’t crowded and I couldn’t be bothered to intervene. The on train staff - who must have wondered past at least 10 times - did nothing
- a few weeks ago a (male) passenger in a bay of four on the other side of the aisle asked a female passenger in the same bay to take her feet off the seats. She refused, saying it was doing no harm. Another female then stood up for her. The male gave up. This is on southeastern - there’s a sticker in the window saying “no feet on seats”! I might have intervened but I had actually wise asleep and I was getting off at the next stop
- I don’t like it either, but I doubt seat bacteria are any worse than on computer keyboards / public toilets / restaurants generally, whatever scare story the papers have recently come up with, etc.
- like a few others on here, I undergo a rigorous decontamination procedure when I enter the house. And I certainly don’t let guests sit on my furniture without covering it with protection of some form and incinerating it afterwards.
*not everything in this post is actually true
For what it’s worth:
- If I took this approach I’d never get to sit down on commuter trains to / from London. My commute is almost an hour, every day. The number of times I see people with feet on seats is less than once a week. Probably because the trains are so busy. So I don’t really think about it too much.
- the length of the train makes no difference to whether it happens. I’ll assume the OP meant the length of the journey
- actually I saw a bloke on LNER doing this today. And he had his wheeled case on another seat. A bay of four to himself. The train wasn’t crowded and I couldn’t be bothered to intervene. The on train staff - who must have wondered past at least 10 times - did nothing
- a few weeks ago a (male) passenger in a bay of four on the other side of the aisle asked a female passenger in the same bay to take her feet off the seats. She refused, saying it was doing no harm. Another female then stood up for her. The male gave up. This is on southeastern - there’s a sticker in the window saying “no feet on seats”! I might have intervened but I had actually wise asleep and I was getting off at the next stop
- I don’t like it either, but I doubt seat bacteria are any worse than on computer keyboards / public toilets / restaurants generally, whatever scare story the papers have recently come up with, etc.
- like a few others on here, I undergo a rigorous decontamination procedure when I enter the house. And I certainly don’t let guests sit on my furniture without covering it with protection of some form and incinerating it afterwards.
*not everything in this post is actually true