excuse me, this is the quiet carriage

[beigetriangle]

...said a woman on the train yesterday afternoonto a man who was loudly snoring away.

how I admire her! I wish I had the courage.

If someone was coughing would you tell them to go out of the quiet carriage

@CrikeyNumptyI hate laptop clackers too. I want to say to them, why are you working now? You have your office, you have your home, why now? Are you getting paid for this time? And slam the top on their fingers. But I haven’t yet because I’m too scared too. If I must travel at peak time with these poor souls I put my noise cancelling headphones on.

I can see advantages of quiet carriages but when you live on a commuter line that gets extremely bus at times, and you struggle to get on at all, I’m sorry but those Quiet Carriage People can do one. Apart from the laptop clackers and the People Who Use Their Phones As if They Are At Home, I can put up with most humdrum noise.

You need noise cancelling headphones. It makes everything so much better.

What did he du/sat?
Brava that woman.

"And then we all clapped and cheered" 🙄

Snoring isn’t quite the same thing as deliberately making a noise with phones and music though

Silly cow, people cannot help snoring.

That is really odd and nasty of her. He wasn’t making a voluntary noise

Me! I always fall asleep on trains.

I hope he kicked her back.

I do.

What an awful thing to do, she should have just nudged him and told him quietly instead of humiliating him.

That's what I don't like about the quiet carriages, no one agrees how much noise is too much noise. Can you have short conversations in low voices for example, I'd think that was fine, but my DD thinks you should stay totally silent.

I would have been annoyed by the noise but NEVER had the balls to say anything. Poor guy, bet he was embarrassed, I'd have been off to another carriage in his shoes.

I love the quiet carriage. It’s usually peaceful.

Did she have to shake him awake @beigetriangle ?

My worst ever quiet carriage story was a woman moved into it, found a seat, sat down and asked the person next to her if she wouldn’t mind terribly if she made a quick call?

(The first rule of the quiet carriage!)

The other passenger, British politely, of course acquiesced. The whole quiet coach then got to listen in on a VIDEO CALL of a PERSONAL TUTORIAL for a student having a really hard time at university. My headphones, nothing! This was about 2013(?) way before the pandemic. I felt so bad for that student having her issues aired like that! I never picked up the name of the institution in the call or I would have written in!

The quiet carriage is about tech noise, particularly phone calls. It’s not an invitation to bully people.

Much as I understand the frustration with snoring, that and in-person conversations are outwith the remit of the quiet carriage.

the woman was a complete twat
snoring is not a deliberate act

if she felt the need a discreet nudge and a quiet word
Complete dick move because she knew it would embarrass him

It is not tech noise it is all noise. I didn’t know quiet carriages still existed but I have, in the past, called people out for making a noise in there. Anyone who snores loudly will know they snore. I can sometimes snore but I don’t go to sleep on trains. Last time I travelled on a long haul flight, I had my husband on one side and a stranger on the other side. My husband went to sleep and when I thought I might, I told the person next to please wake me up if I snored. I have also seen cabin crew wake someone up who was snoring very loudly at the request of the person sitting next to them and the person sitting over the isle from them.

Outwith, eh?

I think it is pretty obvious that you shouldn't have conversations.

That might have been me… I’m a frequent intervener.

It’s a quiet carriage
not a silent carriage

How is yabbing away a quiet activity? It is really selfish to go into a quiet carriage with the expectation of having conversations.

The signage has always specified mobile phones and tech noise - certainly on the lines I travel on, maybe this differs across companies.

Quiet carriages were brought in when mobile phones became common, with the intention of asking people not to make phone calls in that carriage.

If people choose to talk quietly and make the most of a quieter experience to work or read, that’s a choice, it’s not the rule. Perhaps there’s been a cultural shift in expectations- but not universally shared, including by train companies who often reserve seats for families with small children in the quiet carriage.

What an unpleasant woman