So I commute to work everyday on the train, takes me an hour and 40 minutes each way, and costs me £5000 a year (that’s UK Rail for you). So I’m already pretty miffed about being on the train at all. 

I’m also a pretty big guy, 6’3” and broad shouldered, so I make a beeline for priority seating if I can. Purely because of the extra space, I would of course give the seat up to someone in greater need. It’s just more comfortable all round. 

Often however, I can’t get this seat. So I settle for a table (I literally don’t fit in a normal row, my knees dig into the seat infront). 

I will use today as an one example in what I feel is a series of bizarre coincidences. I’m early to the station, and the train is waiting. I get on and the train is pretty empty, but everyone has had the same thought as me and claimed the priority seats. So I sit at one of the literally dozens of empty tables and get comfortable. 

Within 2 minutes, a guy that must have been 6’5” sits down opposite me and starts wrestling his legs in between mine to sit down. Why? WHY!? There’s so many more convenient places to sit. Literally whole empty tables, why would you sit opposite another person clearly pretty tall. Before you think “just move” I tried that. The same bloody thing happened, is the whole “birds of a feather, stick together” thing really true. Only massive people ever sit next to me and I can’t wrap my head around it, I’m starting to think it’s a conspiracy.

So AITA for thinking people are stupid for wanting to sit next/opposite me if they don’t have to? This wasn’t really for anyone, I just had to vent otherwise I was gonna start screaming at strangers on the train. 

TLDR - I’m tall, ONLY other tall people sit opposite me on the train. I hate it. 

