'Quiet carriage' fury-right or wrong?

[mattie]

I was scared the sporadic signal would dissapear by time I got to end of carriage. I had tried to make a phonecall out there previously and it had not gone through. I just didn't think it would be such a big deal. As I said, other people had been nattering to each other and answering phonecalls and nobody had said anything.
I have learnt my lesson now though

Just a thought - if it should happen again, perhaps simply apologise in advance before making the call, explaining why you wouldn't normally make the call but why it's important in this case?

 

[cyberfairy]

Just a thought - if it should happen again, perhaps simply apologise in advance before making the call, explaining why you wouldn't normally make the call but why it's important in this case?

It won't happen again-will stick to listening to crappy d'n'b ringtones in carnage of normal carriage

 

[HackneyE9]

I personally find mobile calls immensely irritating if they're the only non-background noise. A conversation between two people is a relatively steady background, a phone conversation tends to be much more transient, with long silences between sentences. I find them notably more difficult to tune out from than two people talking to each other. Especially if the person on the phone becomes animated - sudden laughter is louder than you might think, and some people are on edge just waiting for it.

Innit. I can blot out most to-and-froing conversations, but mobile calls are always ten times the decibel level - and you find yourself filling in the blanks.

 

[teuchter]

I agree mobile conversations are definitely more annoying than face to face. I guess there's a psychological thing about being excluded from half of the conversation ... It's a bit like sitting with people who are whispering to each other and then bursting out laughing. I'm sure google would reveal that someone somewhere has done a study on the whole thing...

 

[pembrokestephen]

CF, assuming that the other person was also delayed, I suspect he may have been a bit stressed as well. It also may be that he finds phone conversations in his vicinity disturbing. It may also be that he had no real notion of your situation.

All of these things, added together, may suggest why he was a short with you. I really wouldn't let it bother you.

*nod* perspective, innit?

 

[oryx]

I once deliberately got a quiet carriage seat, and asked a woman not to text so loudly. BEEP BEEP BEEPBEEP Beep Beep, it was really getting on my tits. She was really nice and either stopped or put the phone onto silent, I thanked her profusely & all was well.

If it was someone who had clearly been making a call to get a lift, it wouldn't have bothered me at all & I wouldn't have said anything. I think it is those horrid electronic beeps and tinny speakers one wants to get away from.

oryx - Victoria Meldrew

 

[teuchter]

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040412.html

 

[D8ON]

I had to remind someone not to use a mobile in the quiet coach, he was on it for 20mins+ organising his life, yes i felt like a jobsworth and even a Nazi - what strikes me though, is if everyone wants 'one quick call' well then 40 passengers x 2 mins equals over an hour of booming voices - peoples voices just go up on their mobile - just leave the carriage to make any call, or otherwise book another carriage. Also booking babies, people with tourettes, old friends meeting up, business travelers planning a meeting - you belong elsewhere!

 

[xenon]

Should have glared and whispered at him. It's the quiet carriage, not the fucking silent carriage you prick.

I don't know whether I would've done that but his reaction would have really fucked me off. I don't like taking or making calls on the train anyway so it's only done if absolutely necessary.

 

[xenon]

I had to remind someone not to use a mobile in the quiet coach, he was on it for 20mins+ organising his life, yes i felt like a jobsworth and even a Nazi - what strikes me though, is if everyone wants 'one quick call' well then 40 passengers x 2 mins equals over an hour of booming voices - peoples voices just go up on their mobile - just leave the carriage to make any call, or otherwise book another carriage. Also booking babies, people with tourettes, old friends meeting up, business travelers planning a meeting - you belong elsewhere!

This never happens though. You don't get whole carriages of people on their phones.

Slippery slope arguments are usually rubbish

 

[fishfinger]

Slippery slope arguments are usually rubbish

Once you allow one slippery slope argument...

 

[krtek a houby]

I had to remind someone not to use a mobile in the quiet coach, he was on it for 20mins+ organising his life, yes i felt like a jobsworth and even a Nazi - what strikes me though, is if everyone wants 'one quick call' well then 40 passengers x 2 mins equals over an hour of booming voices - peoples voices just go up on their mobile - just leave the carriage to make any call, or otherwise book another carriage. Also booking babies, people with tourettes, old friends meeting up, business travelers planning a meeting - you belong elsewhere!

 

[MikeMcc]

Get a stake somebody, an undead thread

How the hell did you find a thread that was dormant for 8 1/2 years!?