All aboard the controversy train.
Yet one more travel outburst has rattled TikTok after one user posted an altercation between himself and a fellow train passenger.
Captioned “sorry i pay for my place,” the viral clip shows the TikToker, who goes by @mr_boris_becker online, demanding his assigned seat back from a girl occupying it.
The video, which captured the eye of seven.4 million viewers, drummed up the age-old debate over seat swapping.
“My place is 103,” the TikToker began, recording the situation from his standpoint.
The unnamed woman in his seat attempts to indicate one other available seat, however the TikToker demanded the seat he paid for.
“I would like my place, I’m so sorry,” he continued, saying it could be “difficult” to search out one other seat.
Smiling and agreeing to maneuver, the girl got up and grabbed her things – but not before other passengers chimed in. However the TikToker simply told them to “calm down.”
Disgruntled viewers struck up debate within the comments below.
“The audacity of the opposite woman interrupting even tho he’s right wow,” one baffled user wrote.
“This happens all too often, entitled people think rules don’t apply to them, then have the audacity to moan when confronted,” one other snarked.
“I’ll NEVER understand why they don’t sit of their assigned places,” chimed in one other.
“The audacity of her asking him to search out one other seat while she’s sitting within the seat that he paid for,” agreed another person.
“Why are people backing her up,” questioned a shocked viewer. “If i pay for seat 103, seat 103 is where i’m going to take a seat. end of debate.”
“Why is he apologizing for wanting the seat he paid for,” inquired one other.
The train debacle is the newest in a never-ending controversy over seat swapping while traveling. Typically reserved for planes, this TikToker isn’t the primary person to fuel the heated debate.
Earlier this month, a resurfaced Reddit thread went viral, wherein a traveler detailed his experience of refusing to provide up his seat for a mother whose toddler was seated next to him.
A young woman also revealed her nightmarish trip online after a girl berated her for refusing to trade seats along with her teenage son in order that they could sit together. The TikToker said the unnamed woman then muttered profanities under her breath in the course of the flight.
