The Seat Stealer

My name is Andrew Rice. I have decided to start a blog. Like most bloggers I believe that my blog will be different from the millions of other blogs that exist in cyberspace. Hopefully unlike most bloggers what I believe is true.

I will be tackling issues which have been irritating people for years, but are rarely addressed. My hope in creating this blog is not only that I will receive an “A” in my PR Writing class, but that I will also put a stop to some of the world’s most common, most annoying, but also most ignored issues. 

The Problem

For my first post I thought I would address an ever more pressing issue. For anyone who has ever regularly sat in a specific seat in a classroom you know how severe of a problem this can be.

The first week of class is filled with many new things; a new teacher, a new syllabus, new classmates, and a new seat. You will make many important decisions during the first week of class but none more important than the decision of where you will sit. However, once the first week is over you are bound to one seat and one seat only for the rest of the time you are enrolled in that class. This brings me to the issue.

A few weeks had passed since the first week of class and I had been sitting in a seat in the back corner of the classroom. This was the seat of my choice and I had established it as my own. Each time I entered class I knew one thing, and that one thing was that I would have my seat in the back corner of the room. However, that day that would all change.

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Upon entering class I was met with the disturbing sight of someone else sitting in my seat in the back corner of the classroom. A classroom nomad had made his way from a seat across the room and of all the seats in the world he sat in mine.

This is the guy that goes around sitting wherever he pleases without considering the fact that he might be sitting in someone else’s seat. Sometimes he will claim your seat as his own for the rest of the year. Sometimes he will move on to a new seat within days. Regardless I would never again have the peace of mind that my seat was safe.

In two weeks I will take a look at another one of the world’s most annoying problems “The Unfair Pizza Slice.”