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Ahhhh, the old manspread…

It’s a tale as old as time itself.

Man gets on public transportation. Sits next to woman. Tries to take up all the room.

Maybe it’s even happened to you before!

In today’s story, a woman talked about her experience on a train with a guy who acted like a real numbskull.

Check it out!

Guy on a train thinks he deserves all of my leg room.

“This happened in 2019 shortly after I started my first 9-5 job. I was 19 at the time and I was extremely shy and tended to avoid necessary conflict at all costs.

I was on the train home from work on a fairly crowded train. The train begins at the station I got on so while a fair amount of seats were occupied, I was able to secure a seat easily on one of those 3 seaters.

If you’ve never sat on a 3 seater before, usually the window and aisle seats are taken up first leaving the middle seat to be the last one free. I was sat at the window seat while a stranger was on the aisle one.

One stop later, this tall guy gets on and sits in-between me and previously mentioned stranger. A little awkward and uncomfortable, but obviously no biggie since this is all part of traveling on public transport.

Okay…

Shortly after, I can see him looking at me in the corner of my eye while simultaneously trying to push my right leg with his left leg (presumably to get more room).

I ignore his looks but as soon as I noticed him trying to push my leg, I stand firm and keep my leg in place. Seconds later he taps me on the shoulder and says ‘Can you move your leg?’

I look down and see that my leg is perfectly within the borders of my respective seat and not protruding at all onto his seat (I already knew it wasn’t since I myself can’t stand when people take up more leg room than they should).

If anything, he was beginning to go onto my seat from when he was trying to push my leg just a second ago.

Nope!

I responded with ‘I’m within my part of the seat’ and go back to listening to my music.

He then says ‘Can’t you put your bag up there?’ (onto the baggage space above) indicating my backpack that was in-between my legs.

I replied with ‘That wouldn’t make a difference. Plus, why do you think you should get all of my leg room too?’

As I was new to my job, the only thing I used my backpack for was carrying my lunch which was of course long gone by this point. My backpack couldn’t have been flatter if the earth sat on it.

Dude…give it a rest…

He didn’t respond this time but instead resorted to trying to push my leg again, which I again, stood firm on. He also started putting the side of his shoe on the side of mine while scraping down.

I guess he thought if he was annoying enough, I would move my foot/leg in a bit. I just ignored it because I just thought, ‘what an idiot’.

Anyways, guess what?

Literally 2 minutes after this incident, the guy gets off the train.

He did all of that just to only be on the train for 2 stops.

After he got off, the woman opposite me gave me a look that said ‘What a jerk’.

It’s not the craziest justice served story you’ll read on here, but nonetheless, I thought I’d share it.”

Here’s what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person weighed in.

Another reader spoke up.

This Reddit user shared their thoughts.

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And another individual has been there.

This guy was over the top!

And I’m glad that this woman stood up to him!

Guys…can we please stop doing this?

You never know what kind of people you’re gonna deal with on public transportation…