So, I’m thinking about running a campaign. I’m normally a camaigning kind of person, but this is something I feel strongly about… I’d like signs to be put on every train that read ‘Please be prepared to give up this table seat to someone who requires it more than you’ – someone that’s actually going to make use of the table!

Each morning, when I have to commute out of London, I have a struggle to time everything just right so I can be one of the first on the train to snag a table. I like to use the 40 minute journey to get some work done, and performing even rudimentary tasks on a laptop is far easier when it is place on a decent table, rather than perched on the flip down seat-back ledge, or perched on your knee.

Usually, I get a table seat, but I notice regularly that the people sat around me are making no use of the horizontal surface at all, while others languish up and down the carriage desperate for a bit of table action. Some read the paper, some fall asleep, while some merely sit and stare into space – all actions perfectly adequate in a seat sans table.

This morning however the idea struck me – given there are signs asking people to give up seats nearest the door to the elderly or infirm or pregnant, I thought it couldn’t be too difficult to extend the idea to the table seats. You’d have a little logo of a man with a laptop, and maybe he’s hitting a sleeping numpty over the head with it…

Partly, I think it’s just sensible, but if we delve into it, we could start to make all sorts of arguments about the state of the economy and those working on trains working harder and thus doing more to support our ailing country. That would be a bit simplistic and over dramatic of course, but it bears thinking about…

What do you reckon? Would it work?!