To screech STFU in the quiet coach

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Argh

God I hate comments like Andrew's YOU have no idea why madam was using the 'electronic childminder'.

I've never given my 2 dd a phone or tablet to watch on public transport (longhaul flights not included) but fuck off with your judgey hoiked up pants.

I have been given the quiet coach when booking 1 adult 3 children and there was at that time, I don't know if that's changed, no option to say definitely not the quiet coach-though I'd think that was pretty obvious with 3 children.
These are tickets that say they are only valid if you sit in them, and certainly on one occasion when I sat elsewhere they asked me to move to the reserved place and another time I asked the guard if I could sit elsewhere (as there were spaces) he said no as they then weren't valid.

If I'd had the option of saying not the quiet coach then I would have done. You can choose to sit in it, but not not to.

I have said something before - to a couple of people talking very loudly. They complained that they were not on their phones so it was OK, but I pointed out that it is a quiet coach, not a no phones coach. They shut up and the ladies sitting at by table thanked me profusely.

Witchend it is a pain isn't it! I usually go to the unreserved carriage with my children if they have put us in the quiet coach.

I normally say something but there are so many noisy people I'm very very outnumbered.

I booked 15 Brownies with three leaders on to a train journey and when the tickets arrived they were for the quiet coach: called the group booking people who said 'no-one will mind and the children are less likely to be disturbed by anyone else. I think everyone did mind, tbh, but there was nothing I could do!

Luckily Simon is getting off in 20 minutes.

Christ they are annoying. Train manager is AWOL and if I tweet I give away my location to colleagues who think I'm working later than I am

Everyone else is chattering loudly to each other or on their fucking phones. I'm the only one who knows the rules except mn.

YANBU. At all.

I feel your pain, particularly the train manager AWOL.

I think we just have a lot of illiterate people who can't read or understand the 'Quiet Coach' signs.

Because otherwise, a high proportion of British travellers are very very rude.

I know Simon's full name and that he has two DDs. If your DH is travelling South from Scotland today can you tell him to stfu PLEASE. Also fyi he has sorted everything with euro car.

I know Simon's full name and that he has two DDs. If your DH is travelling South from Scotland today can you tell him to stfu PLEASE. Also fyi he has sorted everything with euro car.

(Also, divorce him, he is far too chatty and interested in the woman who biked lands end to John o fucking groats.)

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I'm with you.

I was so irritated by the loud parenting going on during a recent train journey ("OMG! A cow! Look at the cow, Jayden! What noise does a cow make? No, it doesn't go BAAAAAAA, hahahahah! It goes MOOOOOOOO! That's right, MOOOOOOOOO! Not BAAAAAA. A sheep goes BAAAAAAA, doesn't it? What noise does a horse make?", etc for approx 200 miles) that I emailed GWR to ask why the fuck they reserved seats for children in the Quiet Carriage, since it was unfair to expect children to be as silent as adults who had specifically chosen to be silent on a journey. Also, why bother advertising Wifi when it never fucking works?

I got a long email back about the wifi. No mention of the stupid quiet carriage booking policy.

It's a quiet carriage, not silent. Chatting is fine.

I encountered a new kind of hell the other day - someone using FaceTime on a train. Loudly.
So we got both sides of her conversation with her particularly annoying whining voice, including a baby talk conversation with her child.
It wasn't a designated quiet carriage, but it was a commuter train and naturally quiet. Except it wasn't.

Last time I had the quiet coach, I was in there with a couple of bloody hen parties.

Thankfully, one of them did move elsewhere because of a "funny smell"

I got shouted at and threatened by the last person I asked to be quiet on a train (in fact, I didn't even ask, I just said that yes he was also disturbing me, when he argued with the guy who originally asked him to be quiet). He then had a very loud phone call to his wife saying what he'd do to these awful people on the train. It was quite unpleasant, but he wound down after about half an hour. Possibly rang out of people to phone, doubt he has many friends...

I also got bullied and intimidated for politely asking two men to be quiet once. They decided to involve all the other passengers in their conversation. All with great smirks and side glances towards me. Fucking wankers. I still have the rage 5 years on.

Highwaydragon, quiet means no chatter!

It's a quiet carriage, not silent. Chatting is fine.

HighwayDragon, a quiet conversation with the person sitting next to you is tolerable, if you absolutely must (pass my bag, please; do you want anything from the buffet car?; remind me to call Fred when we're off the train; etc etc) but endless chatting the entire journey isn't. Why book a quiet carriage if you don't want quiet?

I did a journey in the quiet coach recently. A group of blokes yelling at each other who thankfully got off fairly soon. Then two women chatting all the rest of the journey - but quietly, could only just hear voices and not conversation . it can be done!

I do carry an mp3 and headphones in case of Neanderthals.

No - no bloody phone calls! You can text silently but that is it. If you are so addicted to your brick, shift elsewhere, saddo.

This is interesting. I've twice now reserved a quiet coach, both first class, purely because it was as cheap as second due to booking very early. The first time, there was middle twenties couple listening to very loud music through headphones and moving from one seat to another . The second time, there was a couple plus their mate who sat across the aisle from them and next to me. They did not stop drinking gin and chatting from Kings Cross to Edinburgh. The coach was full, I couldn't go anywhere else. I felt wronged, frankly!

IMO, if you reserve the quiet coach, then you intend to be quiet, not talk loads. I'm wary of booking the quiet coach again :(

Once in late pregnancy, your honour I asked someone to be quiet in a normal carriage. It was late commuter train where everyone is a bit knackered and grumpy and I'm not sure he wasn't actually on drugs because he was chatting nineteen to the dozen to someone making non-committal noises back. I was sitting between them in the aisle.

Actually I think my exact words were "OH MY GOD DO YOU EVER SHUT UP?! TAKE A BREATH MAYBE?"

He sort of spluttered, then made a phone call, during which he told the person on the other end of the line that he'd have to be quick because someone thought he was being loud.

"YES YOU ARE," I added loudly. He hung up.

The rest of the carriage was silent - could have heard a pin drop silent.

MrsHathaway will you marry me?

Heaven!

Thing is, I am famously conciliatory and conflict-averse usually. Commuters "know" each other well and he was an outsider, so it made no difference to the remaining weeks of my commute!