I am on my way back to school right now, on the 5 hour train ride that I paid $65 for. I paid extra for first class which includes free food and free booze, better leg room and assigned seating.
Anyway, the seats are priced like an airplane - better seats = more money.
I paid for a good seat.
I get on the train, and there is a guy sitting in my seat. I politely say that I think he's in my seat, and he just stares at me like I'M the moron. I said again, you're in my seat. He got angry and told me to sit down at the back, it's not assigned.
Thinking maybe I was wrong, I find a shitty seat (rear facing which makes me sick) in the back, and when the lady comes to see my ticket, she looks confused because I'm suppose to be up front. I said to her: "Is it not assigned seating, because someone is in my seat." She said it is and asks him to move.
She's about 10 feet up from me, and I can hear the man in my seat YELL at her. "I'VE BEEN IN THIS SEAT FOR 4 DAMN HOURS - I'M NOT MOVING." The woman and this man go back and forth for a few minutes, and she comes back to me looking upset saying he won't move.
He actually refused to move and the lady was so floored she didn't know what to do.
So here I am, facing backyards, getting sick from the nausea, on a 4 hour ride, stuck at the back with the smell and sound of the washroom.
FML.
I'm calling head office tomorrow. This is actually a joke.