'T-bagging' is the latest 'entitled' travel behaviour slammed by commuters

Get your head out of the gutter because 'T-bagging' - in the context of travelling - is not what you think it is.

A growing number of rail riders are calling out a frustrating behaviour on today's trains in Britain.

T-bagging, also known as 'ticket baggers', is a term coined towards passengers who sit in someone else's reserved seat and refuse to move.

For many commuters, this isn't a one-off experience and especially with all these cancellations going on at the minute - it happens more often than you think.

After booking a seat in advance, travellers on busy services are having to deal with outright rude passengers (can you tell I'm speaking from personal experience?) who react with annoyance when being told to budge over.

The entitlement of being asked to move out of a seat you haven't paid for is truly something else.

Over on TikTok, Lydia Wilson spoke about how annoying it is in a now-viral video.

As reported by Metro, she said: "Just a public service announcement, if you’re sat in my seat that I reserved on a train, I will ask you to move.

"Don’t look annoyed because funnily enough, you can also reserve a seat for free, or sit in an available one. I will not apologise if you are rude."

She went on: "As someone who gets the train regularly across the country, it is literally free (to reserve a seat), so move when I ask politely and don’t huff and puff – it literally says reserved and you chose to ignore that."

Fellow traveller Samuel Ryan added: "If they care so much about having a seat, maybe they should book it for themselves and stop playing the victim.

"It wouldn’t bother me if seats could or couldn’t be reserved in the first place, but as long as the system to book seats is in place, people should respect that.

"When it’s incredibly busy, I would give my reserved seat up if someone truly needed it – if they’re elderly, pregnant or disabled.

"Other than that, being prepared costs nothing."

I couldn't agree more.

How to deal with 'T-baggers'?

A spokesperson for Great Western Rail advised to Metro: "We recommend any customer who encounters the situation described to contact a member of staff who would then be able to speak to the other customer and ask them to move."

They noted that staff can only ask the passenger to move but only the police can actually remove someone with force.