MinionZombie
17-Jun-2011, 06:37 PM
Think again.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110617/us_yblog_thelookout/woman-says-shes-too-educated-to-be-kicked-off-new-york-train
Perhaps next time - don't be talking on your goddamned mobile phone, pissing everyone else off, and using profanity. Interesting to see there was another situation similar to that where a woman was booted after talking on her phone for the entire journey - in the QUIET car.
That really pisses me off, actually. Like, last year I went on holiday by train, and specifically booked a seat in the quiet car to not be bothered by motherfuckers who are never off their fucking mobile phones because their boring lives are apparently immensely important and interesting (they can't possibly go a few hours without chatting inanely on a mobile, while EVERYONE ELSE CAN HEAR YOUR ENTIRE CONVERSATION) ... but, of course, you can't account for 'roamers' ... and 'roamers' who have no manners and fail to observe the basic rule of the QUIET part of the train. It's there as a refuge from morons on their phones and loud kids - yet on the way up there was some woman always on her phone (doubly annoying as my signal was constantly vanishing, making it ruddy hard for me to send a single ruddy text (with my phone specifically on silent), just so I could let who was meeting me at the terminus when I'd be there.
Then on the way back there was some family - who proudly (in that thoroughly upper middle class, Guardian-reading, jokey-but-actually-still-serious manner) proclaimed "sorry, but our kids are very loud" ... well then FUCK OFF OUT OF THE QUIET COACH, YOU CRETIN!
The entire journey there and back I just listened to my MP3 player - and making sure it wasn't loud either (if I can still hear the train, and every retarded non-important phone call surrounding me in the QUIET COACH, then you can't hear my SModcast podcasts) ... indeed I checked that there was no noise leaking from the earphones early in the trip, and indeed there was nothing ... ... in fact, strangely, I could hear the tinny leakage of some shit dance music coming from the earphones of some other muppet who didn't care for QUIET COACH rules, whilst I was listening to SModcast at a modest volume.
Now, I don't mean everyone has to sit there in sombre silence - an occasional text (for an important reason, or for the purposes of scheduling your arrival with anyone meeting you at your stop) with your phone on silent/vibrate is tolerable for sure - and within reason in polite society - and if you've got an iPod or whatever, so what (who wants to listen to idle chit-chat from some chattering chumps three rows behind you that you don't know anyway, right?), just as long as it's at a modest volume whereby nobody in the carriage can hear any audio leaking out (besides, it's bad for your hearing, children :D) ... but beyond that - FUCK OFF.
Next time I use the train to go on holiday, I'm booking First Class. Five hours in the non-quiet "Quiet Coach" while a handful of chumps inflicted themselves upon those of us who observe the rules of the designated coach, was a form of torture in itself. The last hour - both ways - genuinely felt decidedly claustrophobic. I couldn't get off the train fast enough.
Now, if I had money and a Sat-Nav/a sense of direction, I'd bloody well drive myself - because it's just you in your own personal cabin with your own music at whatever volume you want and you're in control ... but sod off am I spending a bunch on fuel and eight hours on motorways I've never driven before. :p
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What was the point of this? Oh yeah ... crazy "I'm very well educated" woman getting booted off a train ... it's funny really, it's like the Harvard version of "do you know who I am?!" :lol:
Anyone else got any grievances from rail travel? :D
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110617/us_yblog_thelookout/woman-says-shes-too-educated-to-be-kicked-off-new-york-train
Perhaps next time - don't be talking on your goddamned mobile phone, pissing everyone else off, and using profanity. Interesting to see there was another situation similar to that where a woman was booted after talking on her phone for the entire journey - in the QUIET car.
That really pisses me off, actually. Like, last year I went on holiday by train, and specifically booked a seat in the quiet car to not be bothered by motherfuckers who are never off their fucking mobile phones because their boring lives are apparently immensely important and interesting (they can't possibly go a few hours without chatting inanely on a mobile, while EVERYONE ELSE CAN HEAR YOUR ENTIRE CONVERSATION) ... but, of course, you can't account for 'roamers' ... and 'roamers' who have no manners and fail to observe the basic rule of the QUIET part of the train. It's there as a refuge from morons on their phones and loud kids - yet on the way up there was some woman always on her phone (doubly annoying as my signal was constantly vanishing, making it ruddy hard for me to send a single ruddy text (with my phone specifically on silent), just so I could let who was meeting me at the terminus when I'd be there.
Then on the way back there was some family - who proudly (in that thoroughly upper middle class, Guardian-reading, jokey-but-actually-still-serious manner) proclaimed "sorry, but our kids are very loud" ... well then FUCK OFF OUT OF THE QUIET COACH, YOU CRETIN!
The entire journey there and back I just listened to my MP3 player - and making sure it wasn't loud either (if I can still hear the train, and every retarded non-important phone call surrounding me in the QUIET COACH, then you can't hear my SModcast podcasts) ... indeed I checked that there was no noise leaking from the earphones early in the trip, and indeed there was nothing ... ... in fact, strangely, I could hear the tinny leakage of some shit dance music coming from the earphones of some other muppet who didn't care for QUIET COACH rules, whilst I was listening to SModcast at a modest volume.
Now, I don't mean everyone has to sit there in sombre silence - an occasional text (for an important reason, or for the purposes of scheduling your arrival with anyone meeting you at your stop) with your phone on silent/vibrate is tolerable for sure - and within reason in polite society - and if you've got an iPod or whatever, so what (who wants to listen to idle chit-chat from some chattering chumps three rows behind you that you don't know anyway, right?), just as long as it's at a modest volume whereby nobody in the carriage can hear any audio leaking out (besides, it's bad for your hearing, children :D) ... but beyond that - FUCK OFF.
Next time I use the train to go on holiday, I'm booking First Class. Five hours in the non-quiet "Quiet Coach" while a handful of chumps inflicted themselves upon those of us who observe the rules of the designated coach, was a form of torture in itself. The last hour - both ways - genuinely felt decidedly claustrophobic. I couldn't get off the train fast enough.
Now, if I had money and a Sat-Nav/a sense of direction, I'd bloody well drive myself - because it's just you in your own personal cabin with your own music at whatever volume you want and you're in control ... but sod off am I spending a bunch on fuel and eight hours on motorways I've never driven before. :p
...
What was the point of this? Oh yeah ... crazy "I'm very well educated" woman getting booted off a train ... it's funny really, it's like the Harvard version of "do you know who I am?!" :lol:
Anyone else got any grievances from rail travel? :D