people who talk in the quiet carriage should be swiftly put or death - NOT lighthearted

[HeadTilt]

Right?

There is no excuse.

Basic exchanges of information - fine.

Chat about that Thai restaurant you went to three years ago - swift, merciless death.

Need a quick verdict to see if I can a save the last hour of my journey.

I try to speak up if someone's using their phone etc (although I do use headphones to listen to podcasts quietly ). But if they're several seats away it sometimes seems OTT to get up and go specially to ask them to be quiet. And I've been abused verbally, and once threatened physically, when telling people it's the Quiet Coach and they need to stop using their phone.

It's funny how people turn it into me being rude, when they're the ones who are being really inconsiderate.

No.

Slow merciless death.

Boiling oil.

YANBU. Absolutely.

Echo Badger in how refreshing it is to see some support for the QC. Perhaps the silent majority has finally spoken... Sorry for the awful pun.

Obviously it should be possible to book seats that specify the non-quiet carriage. However, if you end up there when you don't want to be then surely you should just move if possible or otherwise just suck it up and be quiet (providing you're not with young children, those with SN etc.)?! Your 'right' to make noise has the potential to impact an entire carriage of people who have chosen quiet. Some people will have very good reasons for needing peace - as Clopy demonstrates.

I was a daily commuter pre mat leave and am firmly in the trappist monk train carriage camp!

YANBU. Obviously you can talk but those around you shouldn't be able to hear it. NO excuse.

Obviously it should be possible to book seats that specify the non-quiet carriage

Online booking for Virgin and CrossCountry allow you to choose your seat, so you can book to be NOT in the Quiet Carriage.

Although CrossCountry scummy robber baron cowards have removed Quiet Carriages from their trains. I hate having to use CrossCountry trains. They are noisy crowded and dirty.

YANBU

I'm quite bolshy but not as bad as a mate I had years back who would literally stand up and, in no uncertain terms, tell them to STFU.

I used to hide behind the seat.

FloppyRagdoll

"There is a God and He is just."

Brilliant

Oh and the penalty for taking phone calls in a QC should be to be hung, drawn and quartered. I think a quick death is too good for them!

This thread must be affecting me.

Just popped in the pub for a quiet lunchtime pint and there is a fella 10 feet away in an empty boozer literally yelling in his phone (business discussion I think).
Don't think he has even got a drink, just using their WiFi.

Just told him to 'stop fucking shouting'. To his credit he did.

Clopy

Got home about midnight. Foghorn did not pipe down. However the crying was very short lived, thankfully. Apparently I'm getting my ticket refunded so at least I wasn't paying to sit in the non-Trappist carriage.

Hail, sisters of the STFU carriage! Inspired by this afternoon's farting thread, I'm going to see whether I can't perfect the art of evil emissions at will. Then the next time someone has a conversation in the quiet carriage I shall know how to act. I love the idea of the dementors appearing, though.

Glad you finally got back, HeadTilt. YA definitely NBU.

The 1st class carriage is usually very quiet, much quieter than the quiet carriage.

I got told off by some lady because i didnt answer my phone in the quiet carriage and just let it ring, it was in my bag i was purposely not answering it due to being in this carriage. She asked me to put it on silent.
Weird she didnt say to the couple behind her to turn off the movie they were watching on their laptop

You really didn't think you should silence the ring??

Totally agree.

Trains should be staffed with guards who deal out a swift cuff to the back of the head with a baton for anyone out of line - that'd sort em.

That was a lithe, the bitch teenager demonstrating thigh stretches to her male companion the other day on the train, right there in the aisle, bouncing from side to side - I nearly screamed, I really did.

'If I'm with a colleague we talk quietly ( as long as I can hear them)'

Jace That made me laugh.

No because it will eventually stop ringing, i could of just answered it and pissed everyone off

Or you could have switched it to silent and not subject everyone to listening to the ringing.

YANBU - there should actually be Trappist monk areas in all public spaces so that us introverts can escape mindless chitter chatter

LifeofI I'm a bit WTF at that. Why on earth would you leave a phone ringing rather than just reject the call or put it on silent?

COULD HAVE, NOT COULD OF

Ahem. Sorry. Yes. Put it on silent!

LifeofI are you deliberately being goady, or are you just thick? Not putting your phone on silent in the Quiet Coach is just stupid.

Do you let it go on ringing when you're at the theatre?

I hate the quiet carriage. It's full of moaning people.

FWIW, I usually travel alone and don't have a phone so am a very silent passenger but it's a TRAIN not a library. Don't be so precious.

Was booked for a work journey on a very busy train and work had to book me into the quiet carriage as there were no other seats left. It was quiet until one mans phone started to ring and he answered it and started talking away. Not sure if he was actually being loud or if the silence just made his voice seem louder, I am sure the whole carriage could hear him. He had not gone one full minute of talking when a man nearby gave him the death stare and said 'This is a quiet carriage!' Phone man very quickly cut the conversation and went silent.

I've travelled by train in other countries - USA, Netherlands, France etc. - where quiet carriage MEANS quiet carriage and you are not supposed to talk at all. And other passengers will angrily shush you if you do.