To talk on the train?

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So I'm on a very busy commuter train at the moment. I had a call I wanted to make, so being mindful of the quiet zone, I walked straight past it into a normal carriage. The lady sat next to me was busy tapping away at her laptop.

I made my call and about half way through she interrupts me to ask if I can't have those conversations this evening as I'm disturbing her. I pointed out that there was a quiet zone for people who wanted quiet but she replied that it's not about the quiet zone, it's about self awareness and me not having any!

So genuinely, I need to know, am I really BU?

I could hear someone talking on the back of the bus when I was sat at the front this morning! Div

If your whispered voice was loud enough for the lady to hear what you said I would bet that your usual phone voice is also much louder than you think.

Technically YWNBU but I'd guess you were being bloody annoying.

Because the train was so full nobody was able to move anywhere and I was jammed in by the window and faced disturbing her more by asking her to move, even if she'd had any way of letting me past.

It was standing up for my right to speak (quietly) in a public place outside of the quiet carriage and I've already admitted I was BU there because I was pissed off at the personal insult.

YANBU, the woman was being intolerant and entitled.

What a cheek to ask you to do the calls at home! She could equally have done her work at home!

If she had a pressing reason she had to work then, then she should have asked nicely and appealed to your better nature, not taken the imaginary moral high ground.

I must admit you whispering to your Dad made me

Her typing was annoying me. I didn't feel the need to interrupt her. It's a public place where everyone has the right to get on with their lives (within reason).

"Why couldn't you just stand for the call?"

On most commuter train I use that would mean losing your seat. Why should she?

I must have misunderstood then: I thought you had got up from the quiet coach to make the call, sat down next to the women and proceeded to make your call straight away.

If so I don't understand how the train was so full that you couldn't stand to call, or move anywhere, yet you could move between carriages and find a spare seat next to this women.

Have I just misunderstood?

Sorry, I see that you didn't get up from the quiet coach but had walked by it in favour of a normal one.

In that case YANBU.

But I still think the posters who would have replied with a 'fuck off' are very aggressive people.

That's right Binky, I always keep on walking down the platform past the quiet coach to get to a normal one as this lady had also done!

And quite right. Very tempting but a fuck off will get you nowhere!!!