Twice in the past week I have found myself asking people to move their coats and bags from seats. This is not the simple case of having put their coat or bag on the seat beside them, but sitting in an aisle seat with a bag and a coat on the seats opposite and an empty window sat beside them.
This might just about be acceptable on a lightly loaded off peak train, but in each case this has been a train leaving London about 5pm. That is, just about the height of the evening rush hour.
Well, OK, some people will try anything on, but if you're going to do that you have to be prepared to retreat with good grace. And, to be fair, on one of these occasions, the person did indeed move bags and baggage immediately on request. But not the other one who first, argued that there was nowhere else to put anything as she wouldn't put anything on the rack in case she forgot it. Then, when she did finally get the point that the train was full and standing, she only moved her belongings with extreme bad grace and continued muttering to herself all the way to Tonbridge, where she got off.
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