Selfish or Fair Enough?

[The Camel]

Tell them to GTFO - you can only reserve one seat per person. If their friends aren't on the train, they lose the seat reservation.

Are you sure about this Andrew?

They were insistent they had paid extra for the seats.

I have never reserved a seat on a train, I don't like the inflexibility of picking one train a week in advance. I just show up and hope there's a seat.

Hold on.

Keith, which train company were you travelling with?

I think, but I'd have to check, that East Coast charge for seat reservations now. In which case, they HAVE paid more for the seats.

Yeah, East Coast was the company.

[The Camel]

So when do they give up those empty seats? i come along on crutches they still say no? i simply would sit down and let them move me.

Impossible unless you climbed over them.

They empty seats were the window seats around a table.

[KarmaDope]

Tell them to GTFO - you can only reserve one seat per person. If their friends aren't on the train, they lose the seat reservation.

Are you sure about this Andrew?

They were insistent they had paid extra for the seats.

I have never reserved a seat on a train, I don't like the inflexibility of picking one train a week in advance. I just show up and hope there's a seat.

Hold on.

Keith, which train company were you travelling with?

I think, but I'd have to check, that East Coast charge for seat reservations now. In which case, they HAVE paid more for the seats.

Yeah, East Coast was the company.

East Coast did charge for seat reservations last year, but they don't any more.

So they may have been correct in that they have paid extra for the seats dependent on when they were booked. Now, knowing this, do people agree or disagree?

[AndrewT]

Tell them to GTFO - you can only reserve one seat per person. If their friends aren't on the train, they lose the seat reservation.

Are you sure about this Andrew?

They were insistent they had paid extra for the seats.

I have never reserved a seat on a train, I don't like the inflexibility of picking one train a week in advance. I just show up and hope there's a seat.

It's my reading of clause 40 of the National Rail Conditions of Carriage.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/system/galleries/download/misc/NRCOC.pdf

Depends on whether 'per person' means 'per person actually on the train' or 'per person for the number of tickets bought'. I'd say the former.

[StuartHopkin]

Comedy thread.

I like both stances, just a shame no one pushed it to the point of violence.

[The_nun]

I'd stand very close to them, that way my bum would be almost in line to their faces depending on their torso height, then I would proceed to pass wind continuously in their face.

[StuartHopkin]

I'd stand very close to them, that way my bum would be almost in line to their faces depending on their torso height, then I would proceed to pass wind continuously in their face.

Bitch

[DaveShoelace]

I'd stand very close to them, that way my bum would be almost in line to their faces depending on their torso height, then I would proceed to pass wind continuously in their face.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOlL

I was about to type up almost the exact same response, but just suggesting face forward scratching my crotch the entire journey.

[The_nun]

I'd stand very close to them, that way my bum would be almost in line to their faces depending on their torso height, then I would proceed to pass wind continuously in their face.

Bitch

I like it when you call me that.

[The_nun]

I'd stand very close to them, that way my bum would be almost in line to their faces depending on their torso height, then I would proceed to pass wind continuously in their face.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOlL

I was about to type up almost the exact same response, but just suggesting face forward scratching my crotch the entire journey.

LOL

[The Camel]

I'd stand very close to them, that way my bum would be almost in line to their faces depending on their torso height, then I would proceed to pass wind continuously in their face.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOlL

I was about to type up almost the exact same response, but just suggesting face forward scratching my crotch the entire journey.

When I was at college there was a tramp that used to go to some of the pubs around Bethnal Green.

He used to walk up to people put his hand and say "10p?" and started scratching himself, just before he reached his crotch he usually got his coin.

[ripple11]

lol...if you don't travel you can't have reserved seats.  Its nothing to do with the people/Friends/lovers sitting next to the seats.

Besides you would have thought the couple would think the arguing/grief/abusing you are going to get from others, wasn't worth the extra space!

[Dewi_cool]

ask the guard for a ruling

[The Camel]

ask the guard for a ruling

I am pretty sure the guard had said they were in the right before I showed up.

They kept saying "go and ask the guard, he'll tell you the same"

[Cf]

ask the guard for a ruling

I am pretty sure the guard had said they were in the right before I showed up.

They kept saying "go and ask the guard, he'll tell you the same"

They're bluffing.