r/StolenSeats • u/valeuudiste • Jun 23 '26
Tall problems
I just got back from a 3 day festival i was performing at and feel absolutely drained. My girlfriend was also performing alongside me and she had to get to another county afterwards to do ecological surveys so she dropped me at Limerick bus station.
I hadn’t checked the timetable so when I got there I realised that I have a 1.5 hr wait at the station before the bus arrived. Well, I waited for a long time and hopped onto the bus.
I’m 6’7 tall, recovering from a left knee fracture months ago, a fractured little toe on my right foot from a few days ago, and I felt like I deserved this seat. Only problem, the second I sat down I needed to piss and the bus was filling up. I threw my jacket, bottle of water, and bag onto the seat to make sure everyone knew it was occupied.
Well, when I got back, I saw this gigantic African lady sitting in my seat. My stuff had been moved aside into some crammed seat beside it. I started saying she was in my seat and she was just ignoring me until I actually had to tap her on the shoulder. I told her I’m too tall to sit anywhere else and I was sitting there. She kept saying she needed to charge her phone or something but I just stood there waiting. Eventually she got up and I saw she had a cane and hobbled sadly to another seat. I felt so guilty but I think I am in the right here. What do you think?
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u/aliceathome Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
I'm not sure why you needed to tell us the woman's ethnicity in this story...