Boarding a train at peak times can be stressful, especially when the 'reserved seats' allocation has mysteriously stopped working. People who would normally deem themselves polite suddenly find themselves rushing, and sometimes even pushing to secure a sought-after space.
But one man took matters to the extreme when he blocked fellow passengers from boarding so he could sit with his group of four, report the Mirror. Sharing her ordeal in a post to Mumsnet, the woman explained she was waiting for the last train home at the time.
She said: "I arrived at the platform, it's mobbed - last train from the city. I position myself close to the boundary line.
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"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."
Most of the other seats were now occupied, so she jumped into one of the four seats. She wrote: "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."
Scores of people replied to the post, agreeing that the woman's actions were entirely justified. One person wrote: "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 penned: "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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