To be annoyed at people on the train who take up another seat with their bags?

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I get a really packed train home from work and there are usually quite a few people standing.
Despite this, some people who have a seat obviously think they've paid for a seat for their bag too. They don't even lift it when other people clearly have no seat.
Whereas other 'standers' just leave them to it, I just go up to them and politely say, "I would like to sit down; can you please move your bag."
They usually look really pissed off. It's worth it for the look alone.

sorry about the swearing, just gets me mad thinking about it. Meant to put asterisks in the said offending word, forgot it would come out bold, I do know how to spell that word really.

pd, p diddy.
I only threw it, after asking some twit to move it three times, I never actually ment to throw it out, just sort of hover it out of the window, until he said, oh ok you can sit here, but the wind took it off!

I can't believe they threw ME off the train for that, the bastards.

What annoyed me the other day was when we got on the train at Weymouth to go home. There was one family; Two parents and two teenage boys with the parents taking up one table and the two boys taking up another table

The parents were reading newspapers and the boys were playing on computer games. Them hogging two tables ment the three of us couldn't sit together and i couldn't really say anything as there were lots of seats without tables free.

I just thought it was very inconsiderate and would never allow a family of 4 to take up 2 tables!

ms s, you should of told em to move.

I once fainted on the way to work and when I came round no-one would give me their seat. A couple of people leaned very far out of their seats to ask if I was okay and one even passed me a sweetie. I had to sit on the floor til I could get off!

Shocking!gosh how inconsiderate of you to faint causing a draught to cosy commuters

See this load of old bollocks about 'pregnancy not being an illness so I don't offer pg women a seat' gets my goat. It's an excuse for bloody bad manners. And I say that as someone who hasn't been pg for quite a while and is never going to be again.

I remember shortly after the Potters Bar rail disaster, when all the trains were heaving every night because there was an emergency timetable and a girl was shoved in the corner, clearly heavily pg. I didn't have a seat but I was standing in the aisle with more space than her. I offered to swap with her, only then did the arsehole city boys sat on the seats offer her a seat and only because I glared at them when I said it. Wankers!!

i did request seat from commuters they declined.i vomited and made no effort to avoid suits who declined me

i was green and bilious throughout pg. most people look at me with that get a bucket/mop quick

I'm amazed at some of these stories!!! What's the matter with these stupid ignorant people these days??

There are some chivalrus people around. Last time I was in London I took my mother on the tube and hadn't realised that she was going to find it difficult to manage. We were on a very crowded platform but there was no point in waiting as it would have been just as bad by the time of the next train. We got on and it was standing room only-a young man immediately got up and gave her his seat. You can get helpful people!

abbeya, I think that generally people might be seemingly more chilvarous on tubes than trains. I put it down to the fact that on the tube, you sit facing or in easy view of people standing, so there is more chance you will notice a pregnant lady or elderly person. Whereas on the train, when buried in your book or paper, it is easy to miss out the more vulnerable.

That is not to say there are no arseholic people on the train who will ignore you even if you stick your 3rd trimester belly in their face.

Perhaps it is because on the tube you are only going a short distance whereas you might have to stand for a long time on a train.