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to think that quiet carriages should be quiet?

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 20:09

So on the train today and booked a ticket on the quiet carriage. I like to sit and read in peace on the train.

Straight after I got on, a woman got on with her baby, maybe about 3 months old. Sat down, took out her phone and had a conversation. Then got out her baby's rattle and rattled it in his face. Then he started crying.

To be honest, I was loath to tell her to move - I didn't want her to think it was an anit-child thing. There were plenty of seats in the rest of the train and since she had reserved a seat, she'd obviously specified that it should be in the quiet carriage.

AIBU to get mad? This happens every time I travel, and I just wonder how people can be so selfish and thick.

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Sirzy · 21/01/2012 20:11

YANBU. There is no point having the quiet carriage if your not going to make sure it is quiet.

That said, we booked train tickets for a group of 8 of us and some bright spark in there office sat us in the quiet carriage. I am not quite sure why they thought we would want to be there! Hmm

MilesJuppisasexgod · 21/01/2012 20:12

YANBU at all!!

Not so much the baby thing (although as you say there are other carriages..) but why oh why oh why do some people think that the no phones rule does not apply to them??

Thassorl!

Kayano · 21/01/2012 20:13

You sometimes get put in the quiet carriage without requesting it.

It's rubbish but what can you do?

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 20:14

She could have moved Kayano. Like I said, there were plenty of seats on the train. It was a huge train, 8 carriages, and she'd walked the entire length of them to get to the quiet carriage which was the last one.

It's bad enough on my hour bus ride home to hear people blathering into their phones. On a carriage deliberately set aside for quietness, it's just TOO galling.

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Pozzled · 21/01/2012 20:15

Erm, I think we did this discussion yesterday?

Yanbu, except that (as we established yesterday) it is highly likely that she was booked into the quiet carriage without requesting it, or on fact being aware of it when she booked.

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 20:17

Sorry that I wasn't on yesterday, Pozzled. I forget to check mn 24 hours a day 7 days a week. If you aren't interested why post?

It is clear it's the quiet carriage. There are signs everywhere, they announced two or three times it was the quiet carriage.

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MissBetsyTrotwood · 21/01/2012 20:18

YANBU. DH works odd hours and sometimes pretty much 48hrs on the trot at the weekends if he has to travel between jobs. If he's on a train he always tries to get the quiet coach so he can have a nap - a couple of hours kip can make a lot of difference.

Kayano · 21/01/2012 20:19

Yes she could have moved but all I'm saying is I've been put on the quiet carriage without requesting it and not realised until someone told me Blush we were coming home from a drunk weekend and were rather merry BlushBlush

We moved when told but she may have been distracted just trying to find her seat and with her very young baby

I don't see why people get so fed up of being disrupted for hours when a quiet
Word with her at the start would have ensured your peace and quiet.

cheesesarnie · 21/01/2012 20:19

yanbu-i hate it!!!

Kayano · 21/01/2012 20:20

That was pretty rude yellow. They answered yoy

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 20:22

Like I said Kayano, she had a baby, was probably a bit frazzled, I didn't want her to feel like I was picking on her for having a child.

I really think she must have known it was the quiet carriage. Why would you walk the length of 8 carriages when there were lots of empty ones?

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Kayano · 21/01/2012 20:23

Because your ticket tells you to and you don't get the train often Hmm

But if you think she must have known ok then, she is clearly an inconsiderate bitch Hmm

SoupDragon · 21/01/2012 20:25

Is it not irritating when they announce, presumably loudly, that it is a quiet carriage?

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 20:25

Where did I call her a bitch?

You're right, maybe she did get booked into the quiet carriage and didn't realise. But it happens every time I'm on the train. So even if she wasn't being inconsiderate, a lot of people are.

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 20:25

It's not annoying when they say it's a quiet carriage, because you know that the announcement will last 2 seconds.

Not like a phone conversation.

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Kayano · 21/01/2012 20:26

sigh I never said you called her a bitch...
I was being sarcastic hence the Hmm

KenDoddsDadsDog · 21/01/2012 20:26

If you had said something then maybe you still wouldn't be festering today?
I was booked into one by mistake this week, seemed to be full of people waiting to wrestle you to the ground if you breathed too loudly. They are a good idea though to avoid "I'm on the train" phone conversations.

ohokthen · 21/01/2012 20:27

Yes went on London train a few months ago, when we booked we where given reserved seats.

It wasnt until an hour in, that I realised it was a quite carriage. Just happend to glance the stickers on the window. Then spent the rest of the time asking my son to turn his music down and whisper. Blush

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 20:28

SIGH back at you kayano. Sorry I couldn't read your sarcasm.

I'm not festering over this one incident (which incidentally took place today). One time it would be fine. It's the fact that it happens every time. And every day when I'm on the bus and people talk for literally half an hour.

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KenDoddsDadsDog · 21/01/2012 20:29

You are festering otherwise you wouldn't be posting about it!
Something must be done..

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 20:31

Festering is a bit strong. I just wonder why people do it.

I gave my reasons for why I didn't say anything. If it had been someone without a child, I'd have said something.

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ohokthen · 21/01/2012 20:35

But if you book advance cheap tickets, you have to sit in the seats you are allocated. My London tickets told me that.

ivykaty44 · 21/01/2012 20:37

why oh why do some people think that the no phones rule does not apply to them??

Because they are more important than other mere mortals - doncha know Grin Either that or they are thick

Rhubarbgarden · 21/01/2012 20:40

YANBU. Bugs the hell out of me too.

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yellowraincoat · 21/01/2012 21:06

Did she then HAVE to speak on her phone ohokthen? Did she have to rattle her baby's rattle the whole train journey?

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