More good seat strategies

July 23rd 2007

In my last post I wrote about a strategy for getting a good seat. A few days later I came across another one, but this time I was on the receiving end. Let me explain.

My wife kept our daughter home from daycare so I took the train to work instead of the usual metro. Despite it being the vacations, the train was pretty full. I mean usually it is standing room only, which isn’t a big deal really since it’s only 12 minutes. But last Friday, I got on and there was 1 seat. And it was full of stuff.

I looked around, debating if I should go for one of the fold-out seats by the door or go for the nice, well protected stroage seat window seat. All in 0.01 seconds I might add since if I didn’t take it someone else would. So I went for it.

Usually if there are plenty of seats I’ll avoid one with bags and coats on it. I’m a nice guy. But when it’s the last seat, no way! So I went to the seat and just stood there. The two guys look up at me, with a very disappointed look on their face. Yes, one of them would be holding his bag and the other would be holding his suit coat. What’s the point of a suit coat anyway if you’re not going to wear it? That really bothers me those guys who carry their suit coats around all the time.

They complied and I got my seat. A very nice one too. Obviously this strategy doesn’t work all the time, but it’s always worth a shot.

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