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  If they don't do it. Take out your camera and you get a viral YouTube video and make some $$$
context: Most people will move their bag if asked. Its placed there to discourage others from sitting beside them instead of taking another free seat >
  
  Once the bus starts to get busy you should remove the bag from seat. >
  
  Yeah but if someone asked me to move it I would >
  
  Thanks to social anxiety I would rather stand than ask a woman to move her bag >
  
  As soon as the bus starts to get packed I put my bag by my feet, but if no one sits when it starts I’ll put it back up
  Sometimes I’ll still keep it between my feet anyways cause I’d wanna sleep and it’s safe there >
  
  Thats okay, if its not packed and seats are available that makes sense. But I am referring to times like really early in the morning or afternoon when they're always packed. >
  
  this is an unpopular opinion? news to me. >
  
  Enough people do it that it might as well be. At least in the big cities where I live. >
  
  What buses are you taking that make you take 5 minutes to find a seat? >
  
  Ones over long distances. Double decker style. >
  
  Long distance buses have pre-ordered payed seats, so noone would have to stand. >
  
  Not all of them. In my region of Ontario we have things called GO buses which take you from town to town, and they don't have preordered seats. You just buy a ticket or tap your presto card (basically a card you can load with money for transit, I'm sure they have different versions of this elsewhere) and board. I've taken some where there's a line around the block for a single bus and the seats are first come first serve. That's why I always wait outside for the bus no matter the weather because the first person on has first pick of seats >
  
  Yeah, but those are not long distance. At least, your description doesn't suggest that. >
  
  They go fairly long distance. They're somewhere between local buses and Greyhounds in terms of length. They take the highway and only have one stop per town so they're longer than local buses but they stay in the province unlike Greyhounds
  So they're like medium long distance, still they should definitely implement a ticket system, or just run buses more often so they don't get so packed >
  
  Rough morning, eh? >
  
  I've found that if you just start sitting down regardless people will move their bags automatically, and rather quickly might I add >
  
  or just say "is this seat taken?". People will usually move it for you. >
  
  I usually just point and get eye contact. If they dont react I sit. Most people wear headsets so no point in talking 😅 >
  
  Tell them to move? >
  
  I do, they get either get pissed and do it, or get pissed and don't. >
  
  If they get pissed and do it, you win.
  If they get pissed and don't do it, throw it on the floor. You win.