We’ve all utilized public transportation at some point in our lives. There are times when the vehicle is busy and one shares seats with strangers, but what if the vehicle is vacant and a stranger sits right next to you when he could sit anywhere else? Read the tale and let us know what you think about this situation.
Source: Reddit
So I took the transit today, and the street car was totally open and available. It’s really nice because there were about 30 different seats available, and I was alone. I was sitting on the window seat and some random stranger just came up to me and sat next to me. I was thinking “why is this guy sitting next to me? There’s like 30 available seats at the front and back and he sat next to me.”
So I said to him,”why did you sit next to me? There’s so many other seats everywhere on the street car it’s just a little strange?” He said,” we’ll do you own this seat? Is this your seat? I can sit wherever I want, you’re being unreasonable here.” I said “correct, I don’t own this spot, I just don’t understand why you chose to sit right next to me when the entire street car is empty and you can sit anywhere you want on the street car?” He responded the same thing and I thought “okay I don’t want to conflict with a random stranger I don’t even know.”
I ended up getting up and moving because the situation was perplexing to me. It’s like an unwritten rule that if there are an abundance of available seats you sit alone! So am I A Jerk in this situation?
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