Do I always sit in the same seat on the train?

I commute by train a couple of times a week. I catch myself walking to the same coach every morning without even looking at my ticket. The thing is, I never choose my seat; it's assigned automatically.

I think I sit in the same carriage and the same seat every time. Is this just some form of selective memory tripping me up?

I'm far too lazy to verify this myself, so I let Claude figure out whether I'm hallucinating or whether there's some truth to it.

It pulled data from roughly a hundred trips this year. On the 69 typical train configuration trips, I sat in coach 6 or 7 72% of the time. Those carriages have 68 and 55 seats. I usually sit in roughly the same area, and the funny thing is that the same seat keeps coming back: 16 different seats have repeated, and seat 20 in coach 6 and seat 8 in coach 7 have each come up five times.

So I was right! At least mostly.

The train I typically take has 7 carriages: two for the first classes, one restaurant car, and four normal carriages for me. One of them has cabins, one has a kids' area, and one has a pet area. As a solo traveler, that leaves me with one optimal choice, but they surprisingly often put me next to kids (not pets). So those exact coaches 6 and 7.

So I wasn't entirely right. The real answer is that I'm not fully hallucinating, and there's a perfectly good reason why I sit in the same area every time.

I also buy my tickets at about the same time every week. I usually book the morning train a day or two ahead, typically on the weekend around the same time (whoops, almost forgot to do it again!). I book the evening train the same day, a few hours before. VR, of course, fills the seats in a certain way, and the earlier I buy, the lower the seat number I get.

Sadly, VR doesn't remember me or give me any frequent-traveler service. A boring, predictable algorithm just does its thing.

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