A lot of hype influencers and motivational speakers are always babbling about ‘taking what’s yours' and ‘seizing opportunities’, but rarely do those book-hocking insecurity-mongerers actually know how to behave in the real world. Perhaps if your pockets are lined with daddy's millions and you've never known real consequences, ‘taking what’s yours' can pay off, but for us regular folks with blue-collar jobs riding the bus to the next city over, we know that the world doesn't work like that.

Riding the train isn't half as bad as taking the bus, but even then, you can meet some pretty colorful characters… you know the type. Rude and entitled, these passengers seem to have some kind of personal vendetta against you, which isn't possible, considering you don't even know them. In this case, OP was on a 4-hour train ride, in a small compartment, with a due wearing a business suit who had a snotty air about him. The dude kept taking phone calls, talking loudly for a long time, biding his…

Who wants to be sitting on an airline for longer than they have to? Well—due to Southwest's unique seating arrangement, where no seats are assigned, and all seats are first-come-first-serve, the less honest among us are hugely incentivized to vie for priority boarding without having to fork out extra for it. The way people do this is by asking for a wheelchair before they arrive at their gate, which qualifies them for priority boarding from the airline. This frustrated passenger hit out against…