Any guesses for what chaos awaits us on this train?

Edit to add: This is not the ticket, it was printed alongside the actual ticket, after asking for seating preferences.

  • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    Seems reasonable enough to me if you bought a ticket for a train which doesn’t have assigned seating, which is pretty common. Just choose your seat as you board the same way you would with a bus.

    • Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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      5 days ago

      Yeah but why even give you the checkbox/option for reserving a seat, only to tell you that you might actually be standing if the train is full or you don’t arrive early enough?

      • perviouslyiner@lemmy.worldOP
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        5 days ago

        I suspect the sales website can’t actually reserve seats itself, but just passes along the request to some other system, which enters “LOL, NO!” in that field for a train that was long-since fully booked.