A smug woman has told how she ruined a rude passenger's trip after he blocked her from boarding a busy train.
The woman was getting the last train home from a city when a man tactically blocked his fellow passengers from boarding the train so his group could claim the seats with ease, the Mirror reports.
Sharing her upset in a post to Mumsnet, the woman revealed how she got her own back - but wondered if she was being unreasonable.
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She wrote: "I arrived at the platform, it's mobbed - last train from the city. I position myself close to the boundary line. One man stood beside me also close to the boundary for getting on the train. The rest of his group stood back but regardless it's impossible to say where carriage doors will stop.
"I was on his left. The train stopped with the doors close to him on his right, he walked to the door then made a big show of letting everyone to his right on first holding his left arm out behind him to block me or anyone else on his left. Everyone to his right boarded.
"He then walked on, positioned himself beside the only remaining table for four then began nodding and pointing to his own group of people behind me."
But noticing that most of the seats were now occupied, thanks to the man's stewarding, she decided to secure one for herself. "I walked onto carriage, ignored him pointing to the table to people behind me and sat down at the table for four," she continued.
"His three companions came behind me and the four of them began sitting down, standing up, staring pointedly at me, offering each other a seat, staring at me again - all the while the seats around them disappearing. One of their party could have sat alone. I'm now surrounded by three seated passengers glaring at me and one stubbornly standing passenger."
As such, she was keen to hear whether commenters thought she'd behaved unfairly. "Am I being unreasonable to think if they wanted to sit down they should have made it their business to board and find seats instead of expecting everyone else to acquiesce to their 'manners' and wait to see what seats they deemed available?" she asked.
Explaining why she opted to sit at the table - and not an empty two-seater - in a comment, the woman added: "They feel so enclosed, I'd hate to be on the inside of some drunk strange man."
One person replied: "Well done you - what a d** he was." "Sounds like he had given himself the role of being in charge of the carriage. What an arrogant p***k," said a second.
Another added: "That's very odd behaviour. I can't understand what he was thinking! He made the choice to have a low chance of sitting together by delaying his boarding. That's entirely on him."
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