Huge guy on the train

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I was sitting on the train this morning when a hugely overweight man came and sat down next to me. The act of him sitting down pushed me half out of my seat. He then proceeded to open his legs as far as possible, brace himself on the window, and push.

Not wanting to cause a fuss on a packed commuter train I said nothing and continued to read my paper. After about 5 minutes of this he took his earphones out and angrily told me to stop pushing him. I replied by saying 'it isn't my fault you chose to sit down somewhere that you obviously can't fit' so he responded with 'My only other choice is to go out the window'. He took that opportunity to give me a further shove accross the seat so I was perched on the edge of it.

What is the correct course of action in this situation, I didn't cause a fuss as I was almost at my stop so I'd be interested to hear what the consensus is on this.
 
Im a big lad myself so i know how much of a squeeze it can be sometimes, and for that reason i tend to stand rather than have to squash upto someone i dont know :p

In this case he sounds like he was a rude idiot and i would have told him to f off in no uncertain terms. He was clearly doing it on purpose to get a rise out of you. He was probably just a bully.
 
Could have mentioned that another viable choice for him would be to diet and exercise - failing that then sure, out the window it is!
 
Berate him and publicly humiliate him for being such a fat mess. They need to be shamed into sorting their lives out. I have no problem with people living as they do but as soon as their selfish actions encroach on the lives of others then they need to change their behaviour.
 
Not your fault he's fat. Lay into him, it might cause him to change his lifestyle and it's not like he can really do anything to you if he turns nasty. These people annoy me every day, theres only one person to blame for the situations they get themselves in and thats them for not giving a crap about their body, and they still love to blame everyone else. Truly pathetic people.
 
All well in the cold light of day on this forum to say you should resist.

But in reality when all you want is zero grief and to get to work and you're knackered, and you literally can't be bothered with (verbally) sparring with someone, I'm afraid (ashamedly) to say I'd have probably just stood up for the last 10 minutes :(
 
robgmun said:
what a **** head, i would have resisted
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Same. Even if someone sits next to me on the bus and opens their legs onto my side of the seat I give them a glare

Some people dont have any respect for the people around them. This guy just sounds like a dick
 
Fair play for keeping your cool in an otherwise highly irritating situation. If you had kicked off and then got off at the next stop you would have looked a bit petty.

In a similar situation I think I would have voiced my disdain as soon as the guy sat down, probably not aggressively but I definitely would have said something sooner rather than later along the lines of "do you want my seat as well mate?"

I wonder if he does the same thing on aeroplanes as well?
 
Gilly said:
So he squeezed past you into the seat?
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Good question, why make him squeeze past? You could have moved up or just bluntly told him 'no'

as a wide person I hate sitting next to the window, it's a solid structure that makes me need to take up some of the next seat!
 
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