The Reserved Seating thing on trains works, but really awkwardly. It's got to the stage where people chiong for anything BUT the reserved seats, then, when only those are left, would rather stand. They pretend those seats don't exist. You can see them instinctively twitch towards the empty reserveds, but then no, for shame... .
"THERE IS NO SEAT THERE FOR YOU, ABLE-BODIED SCUM." Their internal dialogue is quite apparent. Srsly. If I'm in a seat that's not reserved, and an old, pregnant, injured lady wobbles up to me carrying another child, I still might offer her my seat. It's nice to have rules about some things, but when you have rules about being nice, that's very much a beatings will continue until morale improves kind of situation. And this Reserved Seating thing isn't even a rule. I suspect a lot think it is, though. Yes, I said I might offer it.
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