I live in New York right.. So I take public transportation (bus/trains) all the time. It frustrates me whenever it's a day when the bus/train is so packed and there's a long way back home..I'm tired.. and I see a seat open and a person put their bag there. Now it's not fair to people who are really tired and need to sit..especially the elderly or handicapped.. Well what do you think?

i take the bus everyday to school too, it annoys me when ppl do that OR they sit in a way that takes up the whole spot so nobody else can sit next to them. if the bus crowds up i put my bag on the ground or my lap. sometimes the bus gets so full there'll be ppl standing right next to the bus driver it's crazy

i think it really depends. for example, if you're carrying an instrument, a sports bag, a backpack and a piece of artwork, it doesn't necessarily all fit on your lap.

dude hell yeah i hate it when people don't move their bag. one time, i was on my way into town and there was this guy across from me who had his bag in the seat beside him. Soon, all the seats got filled up. At the next stop, the old lady came inside and looked at all the filled seats. i think she saw the seat with the guy's bag on it. I KNOW he saw her but he didn't move it. so fricken' rude! he just sat there listening to his cd player. so i got up and gave her my seat. i sent mean glares at him the rest of the way. i doubt he saw though...to stupid to notice probably haha.

I heard from a friend that it's not illegal to put a bag on a seat. Although it's done so much that people really ignore it. I live in New Jersey but I'm in New York everyday since I go to college there.

Well u can always just tell them to move their bag nicely or you will move it yourself. tht is somethin i would do

That's annoying. Well I always ask them nicely to move their bag and sometimes I don't even have to, they do so by their own when seeing me approaching.
I also hate when they sit on the way-side seat so nobody can sit next to them. People really need to learn how to behave with others.

It is illegal, the MTA has all these new rules, and one of them is to not put your bags on other seats.

I hate it when people just sit there while an elder has to stand. When the bus is full, I always give my seat away. I'm not gonna let them stand. It also annoys me when the bus is full and people just hog seats. Like they put one of their legs up to take up more room, or sit right in the middle of seat. Annoyssss.

i hate it when we take trips on a bus and it's full and then someone spills a coke on a seat and runs off so that the last person is stuck with a seat covered in coke.

that pisses me off, expecailly when i was the last person.

of course, i refused to sit down,which ment the bus couldn't leave...

i like to share my frustrations.

when the bus was empty last week, i was with my friends and i put my bag on the seat next to me and a bunch of people were on the bus. but i was talking to my friends across from me so i didnt notice. i felt bad, but when i realised it, i was like "omg! sorrryy" and let them sit.

That's bloody annoying.. it's like do your bags walk and need a rest?

ask them to move it, if they don't... oh well. i dont really care for that cuz if i got tired and everything, i feel like i'm getting an exercise or something. but for the elders and hadicaps?? if the person still leaves the bag there, yeah. the person is a b*tch

but i like standing up on the bus... its an excuse to push people over that you dont like when the bus stops

Oh I hate that too. Especially if I'm taking the bus with a friend, then we can never find two seats that are next to each other.

i know right? it's not like it has an ass to take care of

I know what you mean! I mean, my half sister is like that, but not in a bus or anything, but in a car. She would put her purse in the front passenger seat and I'd move it to the side next to me, but she would tell me to hold it. Then she would tell me initially when she used to not have anyone in the passenger seat, her seat was for her bag. And one time I sat in the back because she had her bag in the front seat and a shopping bag to return some clothes. lol.

But yea, I loathe it when people do that. I mean, sometimes I do that ONLY to SAVE A SEAT for a friend. I do that in theaters and stuff. But that's it, since I have an intention for it. Bleh..

^ same here

Gosh, what rude people. Well, I do that too sometimes in the cafeteria. But that's when I'm saving a seat for someone. xD

omgsh i think those people are losers. seats are for people. not for bags. gosh i live in new york too and i take the bus to skool everyday and its always packed. ugh i hate it especially when people put their backpacks on their seats they can just put it on their laps.

Whoops, I meant to say it IS illegal, lol. Well yeah.

so ... what do you do to them ?

lmao, I oughta jack that bag up.

It would irk me, yeah. The bag should stay in their lap or on the floor, to give others a chance to sit down.