Whale's Entitlement is Outrageous I have taken the bus to work 2 years now. Recently my bus also takes in school kids. Since I am one of the first to sit on the bus I can pick where to sit and I usually put my backpack on the second seat (the bus has 2 seats on each side of the corridor) for it to not get dirty. In my country the backpack on the sit means it's occupied for somebody (probably works this way in other countries as well). Either way, now there is this 16 y/o 300 pounds "girl" who can barely cross the corridor of the bus (by bumping into everyone into each row). She gets down after 3-5 minutes of bus ride. Most of the same kids either pick empty seats (she is never the first to get on the bus, so most every sit is already taken) or just travel standing up in the corridor of the bus, since all of them get down at the next stop where the school is. This 300 pounds beast always finds it's way to my fucking seat (does she have a detector or something?) and just proceeds to "fake-sit" until I am forced to take down my backpack so she can sit half of her ass (there isn't the space for her to be fully seated). She not only doesn't respects the "backpack rule", she doesn't even ask to sit, she just starts sitting and I need to pull my shit away from being crushed.  Add to this the fact that she smells like cheese microwaved and then left in there for about 1 week to rot and you get the perfect recipe for me being pissed as hell. So the fit kids stay up, the whale needs to stay down because otherwise 5 minutes is too hard on her. Recently I've started leaving my backpack down so at least fit people get on the other sit... still, this is not cool at all. Since I cannot exactly obligate her to NOT sit in an empty seat, I don't know what to do long-term. She somehow finds her way to get near me every fucking time.