An Incident worth discussing...

OK, so, here goes - I witnessed the following on the metro the other day.

I was on my home from school on a relatively empty metro (enough space for one person to occupy a one whole row). A man was sitting, well sleeping, in the row front of me. He had the row to himself. The metro stopped at one of stations and a large (obese) man climbed into the train. Without looking around for any empty seats, he squeezed himself next to the sleeping man. As soon as the large man sat down, the sleeping man woke up, and looked at the man next to him and pointed to an empty row in the car. In short, the large man was rudely (or at least I thought so) asked to move. The large man did move but kept throwing the sleeping man dirty looks throughout the journey. This happened in less than 3 minutes.

OK, now the question - A decade or so a back, I would have clearly thought that the sleeping man was rude and should have been admonished. However, in today's world where obesity is frowned on and where airlines try to charge large people extra money for tickets, I wonder if it was the obese man who was rude. Granted that the large man didn't see the empty row, but should he have looked around atleast?

I still think that the sleeping man behaved rudely. Would it have been correct protocol for the sleeping man to get up and move to an empty row?. I wonder if the large man would have simply sat in an empty row had he seen one....