Damn, somebody should write an article about this. Quick, call Henriksen!

There's a step before flicking them right in the dome piece. It's called asking them to move the thing. Tough, I know. At least tougher than kvetching at a kvetchboard--sorry, keyboard.

Can't you just imagine all the other many varied places that those backpacks have been set? I once managed a coffee shop where the young baristas used to set their bags on the floor, then pick them up and set them on the counter where the smoothies are made. The subtlety of that was even lost on MY boss. At any rate, do you really want to sit where their backpacks have been set? Buy a car. A new car.

Just make eye contact and say something like " I need to sit down".

Try going round the country via greyhound. I especially love it when new passengers get on and throw a backpack down hoping incoming passengers will crowd you- someone who has been on a bus for days - instead of them.

This is not greyhound, this is public transportation. Don't put up with that shit.

My backpack works pretty hard.

Dear anyone who passively aggressively posts complaints about people not behaving properly on public transportation, kindly open your mouth and say something to indicate you'd like to take a seat where a backpack currently resides WHILE YOU ARE ACTUALLY ON THE BUS. It works way better in the moment than griping about it later. Now, the question of whether or not anyone actually wants to sit next to the kind of dickhead who claims an entire seat for bags, backpacks and other bullshit is another can of worms entirely. Maybe it's best that these oblivious assholes erect a barrier between themselves and the rest of humanity.

Yeah. Fucking tell them to move the bag. It's not hard.

I miss rants about bicycles.

Seat hoarders are assholes. Especially because they force otherwise considerate and gentle people to have to confront an asshole stranger on public transportation as so many urge here. Totally worthy rant. On the other hand, at I always put my backpack on the seat next to me keep people from sitting there. Why roll the dice with the losers on the bus?

Speak up and ask them to move their shit!