Yeah - it felt so targeted as he had zero reason to swap there. And, I can’t explain this, but there was something about him (almost like a smell? But he didn’t exactly smell) that gave me a full-bodied scared feeling. Feels so weird + dramatic to say

Thank you to you + your wife. Thing is, I’m older now so couldn’t believe I was having to deal with creep vibes still like when I was in my 20s so didn’t even think!

Then I had to worry if he’d act aggressively or do something when I did just that 😭. I feel like I’m too old for this crap!

Thank you. For context, another man sat next to me on the train ride up and got zero creep vibes (and he was normal!) so something about him subconsciously freaked me out

Yeah - why would you choose to leave a more spacious seat to sit with a stranger?

Thank you! I just couldn’t work out why he was doing it and something about his odd, nervous, energy made me nope out

We don’t know he wasn’t mad Chris!!

There we other ‘better’ seats he could have chosen + other fully empty ones in our carriage alone.

Felt so creeped out that I moved to another carriage after 5 minutes (he gave me a weird feeling and felt boxed in).

Was I exaggerating here, or was that weird?!

90 mins into journey a man who had boarded at the same time as me + had been sitting directly in front of me (rows of x2 seats so I was facing his back the whole journey) with no one sat next to him, got up, moved my drink off of my ‘spare’ seat and sat down. We were 20mins between stations each way

I had a very terrible seat: aisle, facing backwards. When the person next to me was a no-show 20mins into journey, I moved to window.

So, both (terrible) seats technically reserved / have reserved signs, but my actual seat empty.