Brenda Davie was not having a good day.

After a long day at work, she was on her way home, sometime between 5 and 6 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, on the 72 Pape bus, headed northbound.

The bus was crowded, and busy, and a man sitting near her had his bag on the seat beside him, she recounted later on Facebook.

After Davie says she asked the man “very nicely if he can please . . . move his bag,” the man apparently refused, Davie said in the account she shared on Facebook.

Davie alleges that when pressed, the man said, “Get the f--k away from me, airhead, the seat is occupied.”

Juan Hodem, a passenger on the bus, confirmed Davie’s claim that the bag-loving, bowler-clad man pushed her, and “while she was trying to get her balance, he stomped on her right foot.”

That’s when Hodem took out his phone and started filming.

(*Photo caption:The man shown above, seen wearing a green shirt and black bowler cap, allegedly assaulted Brenda Davie and refused to move his bag on the 72 Pape bus Wednesday evening . Courtesy Brenda Davie/Facebook)

Hodem’s footage shows another man giving up his seat for Davie while the man with the bag tells her, “you get nothing, pay attention.”

“You’re the one that won’t let people sit down because of your f--king bag,” Davie responds.

The man then calls her a “f--king airhead.”

“I’m glad your bag is comfortable,” she says, sarcastically.

Davie took to social media to share her woes Wednesday evening and the story exploded. It was shared more than 5,000 times and had nearly 1,000 likes. It also erupted across other platforms, including Twitter.

The mysterious man, clad in a bowler hat and a bright green shirt, has been unkindly dubbed the “TTC leprechaun” on the social-media site Reddit.

TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said he had spoken to Davie and apologized on behalf on the TTC. A file has now been opened with TTC customer service with regards to the incident.

Ross said that the TTC is working to find security video of the alleged assault, but that buses only generally carry the footage for the last 15 hours, so locating the correct video could present a challenge.

“Our objective it to ensure all our customers and passengers on the bus, and our employees for that matter, are safe and secure at all time,” Ross said.

Davie returned to Facebook around 10 a.m. on Thursday with an update. “I am shocked at the overwhelming response I’ve received,” she wrote.

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For the TTC’s part, Ross has a message that will resonate with most commuters.

“Also we would remind people that seats are for people and bags do not belong on seats,” he said.

“Bags don’t pay for fares. People do.”