An owner of a large train franchise has shocked commuters by admitting he doesn't know what the tags to mark a reserved seat on one of his companies trains looks like.
The unnamed owner made the comments after he boarded one of his own trains and without bothering to book a seat and just decided to sit in any random seat.
Sadly, however, the entrepreneur didn't realise that the seat he was sitting had a reserved tag.
Reserved seats are available for anyone to sit in up until the point from which they're reserved but once the person who has purchased the seat comes to claim their seat it must be vacated for that person to take their seat.
When the seat owner arrived to collect his seat the company owner refused to move, not realising whom the seat actually belonged to.
The seat owner, Tim South, recounts the encounter "At first I didn't realise it was him, it happens all the time, people sitting in my seat. I tell them and them they move but he just weren't having it. I went off to get the conductor who came and sorted it out. Fair play to the conductor though, he looked a bit embarrassed having to tell the company owner to move but he did it.
The company owner later said "yes, I was in the wrong but how was I supposed to know what they looked like? I hardly ever ride our trains. They're often late, over crowded plus they smell, I'm far too good for that. I usually travel by hot air balloon or if I'm really in a rush I go by helicopter.
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