The story of the woman who just really, really wanted to sit beside me (or take my seat)

On Christmas day, I took the subway to my parents' home lugging a huge and heavy box, which contained a desktop computer I had bought for them. It was from the Microsoft store so the bag I was carrying this giant box was splashed with the giant Microsoft logo -- a very obvious and "please mug me" signage that something of value was in there.

So I had sat in a two-seater spot facing backwards and and put the giant box in the window seat, covering up the logo with my backpack, as that seemed the hardest way for someone to jump me for it. The subway car had a ton of empty seats around me (after all, it was Christmas) and I wasn't being an asshole taking up two seats, as would normally be the case.

Then this older lady gets on, hovers beside me and says something to me, pointing to the seat which had the box. I had my earphones on so I couldn't hear what she said and she turned to look at the other side (which had people sitting) as I removed my earphones. Then she turns back to me to insist on sitting down - either IN THE SEAT I WAS ALREADY OCCUPYING or to sit in the seat which had my giant, heavy box. I was like WAHHHH because, literally, there was a seat in the two seater spot facing the doors RIGHT IN FRONT OF US that was unoccupied by neither a person, or a box, or anything on the seat itself. Then on the other side of the doorway, there were empty seats galore.

I looked at her just completely confused and stunned by why she was so insistent on taking either my seat or the seat beside me that had the giant fucking box and she just kept asking so I was like I WILL JUST MOVE. I picked up this 10 lb box and grabbed my backpack and moved to the plethora of empty seats two feet away and she sat down in my seat. I have never seen such buffoonery, nuttery on a subway before.

Then what really grinded my gears besides the fact that of all people on the train who had stuff in the seat beside them and try to bully to move that shit so she can sit down (me being with the giant box beside them, not like I was just hogging up two seats because I had a purse or shopping bag in the seat beside me), of all the empty seats that were available to her within a stone's throw, of all things, she only went two stops before getting off. And after one stop, after booting me out of my seat, she stood the rest of the trip to that stop. And yet with all the effort she made to sit down, you'd think she would have gone at least 5 stops!!! BUT NO, TWO STOPS AND NOT EVEN SITTING THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THOSE TWO STOPS!!

Pictures of the ridiculousness. As you can see, the seat RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER is empty. The seats in front of me, but a mere meter away, is completely empty. The seats beside her (which were facing the direction of the train), had an empty seat. The other seat in front of that seat was also empty. SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING THIS BROAD'S BRAIN.