DH & I are travelling up from London on train, sue to bridge works we had to change at Doncaster. Got on to a table with these two blokes. This is in the first class carriage - as dh is a GNER time member so we get free 1st class tickets.
Long tiresome journey due to many hold ups caused by said bridge works, but fortunately the pair sat with us were very pleasant and chatty and we had a good conversation going. Now I would definitely say we were NOT excessively loud, we were carrying on a conversation in reasonabley normal manner, but this woman sat across the aisle and behind us (so not directly opposite us) took upon herself to get up and ask very rudely if we had first class tickets!! I said yes, and why?
Apparently she objected to our loud (in her opinion) conversation and started having a go at me and DH, DH basically said to her well if we are being too noisy you could have just asked if if we be a bit quieter, there was absolutely no need for her to ask in such a snobby way if had the right to be there! He told her that he took offence at her looking down her nose at us.
In which case she sat down and shut up. What really got me was she did it when cabin crew were coming up to serve so she obviously expected them to kick us out of the carriage. And to make things worse, the train was full and standing in places, and I'm quite clearly heavily pg - so if we HADN'T had 1st class ticket, I would have had to stand for the rest of the journey.
Still I felt a bit better when I realised she had drunk a very large bottle of wine and (according to our table companions) a couple of vodkas - so I guess she was a bit pissed. I know one of the crew was getting pissed off with her coz she kept hassling him about the fact she was getting off at Durham.
She herself was being quite noisy earlier, carrying loud conversations on her phone.
I think having good manners and treating people how you wish to be treated counts for a lot more than what "class" you think you are....