You CAN sit here, but I can ignore you...

As I mentioned in this post, it's not uncommon for passengers on trains and trams to place themselves and their possessions in such a way that makes it impossible to sit in the seat beside them. All the trams have 2 seats on at least 1 side of the aisle and all the trains have 2 seats on each side of the aisle. But, when you walk onto 1 of these modes of transportation don't be surprised if you see either someone sitting on the outside seat, or sitting on the inside seat with their bags taking up the outside seat.

Heck, hubs and I even saw 1 guy take up FOUR seats on the train over the weekend. There are spots on the train where 1 row of seats is turned backwards such that it faces the other 2 seats and there's a little table attached to the wall. A nice way for 3 or 4 people to ride together and be able to talk. Well... this guy was sitting in 1 of those 4, on the outside seat and had his stuff sitting on the other outside seat. How nice.

Any who... hubs and I were on the tram earlier that same day and we sat behind a woman who was sitting in the outside seat. A few stops later 2 women with a boy get on. The women were speaking Spanish to each other, and 1 seemed to indicate to the other to ask the woman in front of us if she could sit in the inside seat. The woman who was already seated allowed the new passenger to sit on the inside seat, and then promptly turned sideways such that her feet were in the aisle and her back was to the woman who just sat down. A stop or 2 after that another woman gets on with a dog. The woman sitting sideways made quite a show of petting and talking to the dog. So... she could be nice to dogs, but not to people. I was laughing. Finally, the woman sitting sideways gets up so the dog woman could take her spot, and then sideways woman goes up to the front of the tram to talk to the driver (BTW - there is a sign explicitly stating that talking to the driver is not permitted during the ride)

I keep trying to find a benign reason for the woman's behavior, but I'm having a hard time coming up with one.