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Originally Posted by cinrenhea

In regard to your second post, I didn't read that because it had to do with priority seating. Like I said in my OP, I had zero interest in paying for a reserved seat, so why would I read the rules or benefits of it? Regardless, they put that statement on my itinerary. It didn't say "If you meet the requirements..." or "If you are eligible..." or "If you purchased a reserved seat...", it stated the exact words I put in my OP (no asterisk, no links). If they are going to make it so it shows up on every itinerary regardless of what a person purchased, I think they should change their wording.

From Wikipedia.org:

Somebody Else's Problem (also known as Someone else's problem or SEP) is an effect that causes people to ignore matters which are generally important to a group but may not seem specifically important to the individual. Author Douglas Adams's description of the effect, which he playfully ascribed to a physical "SEP field", has helped to make it a generally recognized phenomenon. The label is now widely used to focus public attention on matters that might have been overlooked and, less commonly, to identify concerns that a depressed individual should ignore. It has also been employed as trivial shorthand to describe factors that are "out of scope" in the current context.