To expect someone on a crowded commuter train with their 8 or 9 yo NOT to read out loud in a booming voice all the way into London...

[CountessDracula]

grrrrrrrrrrrr

Surely he can bring a book to read himself, she was bellowing out this bloody book god knows what it was all teh way in

yes - with oversized mcp too

Havent read the whole thread but I was on a train recently where a man had decided to change his ringtone... and then proceeded to go through about 100 nokia options to help him decide. Idiot.

so annonying never a tune u like either

I know! Wasn't even polyphonic ringtones (hark at me and my telecommunications jargon).. put it this way, the crazy bloody frog would have been welcome!

i like crazy frog because it kept angst coldplay off no1 - result

YABU. why don't YOU get an ipod? Thank goodness I live in central London, and can cycle anywhere I need to go...it means I don't have to deal with po-faced commuters in from the burbs!

I agree with Bink's first comment. I read to dswell, less now that he's almost 8. But I used to read quite a lot to him when he was, say, aged 5-7. We have spent a lot of time on public transport. That's how he gets to school. Reading to him keeps him from getting bored and impossible. And he just wouldn't read to himselfnot until recently--which is, I think, true of a lot of boys who are 5 or 6 or 7 (or maybe even 8). I try VERY hard to keep my voice down. Almost to a whisper, if i can. I practically read into his ear. But occasionally someone looks my way with irritation, in which case I read even more quietly, or even try to move seats.

So your post, CD fills me with alarm! I'm sure I do irritate peoplewell, clearly I do!but I think it's been good for ds that I've read to him on buses and tubes. He loves bookshe didn't used to!and it must partly be to do with those hours on public transportation. I try to be considerate. But it seems like hardly anyone else makes an effort to be considerate and I just hate listening to people on their phones. I think hearing a parent reading a book to a child is way less irritating than forceably listening to a phone conversation--which happens way more often than reading! But if she was as loud as you say, CD. . .well I agree that that's very inconsiderate. But I try to be considerate, and yet still appear to annoy people occasionally. But, like Bink says, there's a point when you have to think about your child and how you're going to get through that 200th trip on a public bus when you could be driving but are trying to be environmentally considerate, which I think gets lots of points on the "considerate" scale. But good point. Interesting to hear that reading aloud really annoys some people. I didn't think it was that rampant.

She was that loud!

I don't mind anyone reading in a normal voice at all

I don't want an ipod thanks
I like reading not blaring music into my ears on a train