BRX
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You're traveling by yourself and boarding a fairly busy train that has a number of unreserved seats. And you fancy getting a pair of seats to yourself.
Do you have strategies for this?
For example, I might spot a pair of seats that are reserved for the entire journey, with no-one in them, and choose a seat nearby with the intention of switching into those reserved ones if there's still noone in them 10mins after departure.
If there's an entirely unreserved carriage I might go there... Because other seat-searchers arriving in that part of the train will find several alternatives to sitting down next to me.
Maybe at a terminus I'll go right to the front going most others are too lazy to go that far. On the other hand... On a busy train, maybe others will have walked the whole train, finding no empty pairs, and upon reaching the end resign themselves to a single seat next to me.
Maybe the very back carriage is better, because other seat seekers will walk on through hoping better options exist further up.
Of course then there's the whole thing of deliberately putting bags in the seat next to you - I try not to do that too much. My question is about your strategies for choosing your seat rather than defending it once you're there.
Do you have strategies for this?
For example, I might spot a pair of seats that are reserved for the entire journey, with no-one in them, and choose a seat nearby with the intention of switching into those reserved ones if there's still noone in them 10mins after departure.
If there's an entirely unreserved carriage I might go there... Because other seat-searchers arriving in that part of the train will find several alternatives to sitting down next to me.
Maybe at a terminus I'll go right to the front going most others are too lazy to go that far. On the other hand... On a busy train, maybe others will have walked the whole train, finding no empty pairs, and upon reaching the end resign themselves to a single seat next to me.
Maybe the very back carriage is better, because other seat seekers will walk on through hoping better options exist further up.
Of course then there's the whole thing of deliberately putting bags in the seat next to you - I try not to do that too much. My question is about your strategies for choosing your seat rather than defending it once you're there.