to expect someone sitting in my RESERVED seat on a train not to grouch at me for claiming it??

[bookwormmum]

Fair play, the woman in the seat got up fairly sharpish to evacuate it but her friend protested saying that 'you can't be expected to stand all the way to London ([rom Cheshire]'. Presumably I could stand instead even though the seat was booked in my name weeks ago .

The train was so overcrowded in standard class they actually declassified the seats and all reservations were declared void just after I'd taken my seat. I half expected the second woman to ask me to leave the seat in favour of her friend again on account of this!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that I know the stations on that route off by heart now . My dp has often suggested that he drops me off at Stafford to get the train back but I prefer to board where I've booked the seat from. Gives a bit more authority if I have to get hoity-toity and claim it. Last year some fool asked me if I was standing (I'd bought a walk-up ticket so wasn't guaranteed a seat - and didn't get one!) because there was no seats available to which I riposted, 'No, I prefer to stand next to a smelly toilet for 2 hours, it's much nicer in a crowd' - mind I was a bit narked as I'd had to wait til after 6pm to get a train. Hence my slight paranoia about always reserving a seat now. I bet she reserves a seat next time.