To hate people having full conversations on the phone on the train

[Ernestinepine]

On a three hour journey. One woman was on the phone to her colleague for about 30 minutes. Hung up: and now on another call.

another woman on the phone having a drawn out conversation.

i don’t want to hear peoples ongoing chat.

It’s actually a very selfish thing to do?

I suspect we might have some of the same demographic on this thread that let their kids use iPads without headphones when they go out for meals. They'd probably say that was normal and everyone should get used to it too... 🙄

I don't care. It is background noise that is no different to someone chatting to the person next to them.

Tune it out.

Sometimes, a train journey is the only chance someone has time to sit down and catch up with someone.

On the phone or talking in person can both be annoying!

quiet carriage is probably the best

Unfortunately if you use public transport, the public are likely to be there!

That’s allowed because nosey parkers can hear the whole story. 😂

It’s hell. I was once on a similar length journey and got stuck in the window seat next to a lad having a four way FaceTime chat in 3 different languages.

Thankfully the train was relatively empty so I shifted and he had the cheek to look affronted. So, so selfish though in a tiny space. A one on one would have been bad enough without the four way chuntering on about nowt. What’s wrong with a good book or a podcast?

In such circumstances I wish I was brave enough to introduce myself to the group and start offering unwanted advice. Or play and sing along to shit music “altogether now! There’s no oooonnneee quite like grandmaaaaa”. Knowing my luck though I’d be the one having a difficult conversation with the BTP following complaints.

It is so inconsiderate

I don’t want to hear people on the phone on train, do they not want some privacy Conversations in person are different

Some of us can't tune things out easily. Not everyone's like you you know

No one's quiet there these days.

I never said everyone was like me.
I struggle to tune other people out too, but if I am on a train alone, my anxiety gets really bad so I talk on the phone to my mum for the journey.

If you struggle with noise, then go in the quiet carriage.

They're never quiet. Then you spend the entire journey feeling cross. Might as well sit in the normal carriage.

Yep, I swear drunken parties and people with noisy kids choose the quiet carriage on purpose.

Same.

if it’s during working hours, then they might be working. Not everyone has the luxury of time so they have to take work calls whilst they travel.

Yes, reading this thread made me think of that. “I’M ON THE PHONE!” as he marched down the street. Very clever and funny bloke.

I agree with you op. It’s rude.

My most successful British passive aggressive action unfolded on a quiet carriage from London Paddington to Swansea once. A dickhead finance bro on a loud self congratulatory performance phone call had annoyed me for nigh on thirty minutes. I text my husband to phone me- just so that I could answer and loudly (as a soft spoken woman I mean as loud as I can speak without shouting) say “sorry Love- I can’t chat! I’m in the quiet carriage so it would be rude! Text me if it’s urgent!” , whilst glancing at the bro. He ended his call by calling me a bratty bitch to his counterpart- but nonetheless - a win for manners imo as the carriage was quiet for the remaining hour or so

God yeah. 😄And it's so true - when people talk on the phone while out and about they so often shout, presumably to hear themselves above whatever background noise is present. I don't think most of us would be nearly as irked by phone calls in public if people just spoke at their normal volume, and (where possible) didn't choose places that were already noisy from which to make their calls.

Bravo! Those types are the most annoying imo.

I remember when mobile phones were still quite a new thing a lot of those performative (usually male) types would make loud work calls from trains booming things like 'Tracey, I'm on the mobile if anyone needs me', appearing to think everyone would be thinking 'Wow, how important and impressive he is!' when in reality most people were probably thinking 'Dickhead'.

I sit in the quiet carriage for this reason. But you often get an idiot in there still
making a noise, I do usually say something

So your anxiety trumps others comfort?

They're too busy to have a conversation in their own home? Wow that is busy

When I'm sat on a train, in an ideal world I would be staring out of the window, listening to music or a podcast.

If I'm on a train Mon-Fri, I'm usually travelling for work, those hours don't belong to me, unless I want to work that evening. So, I'll be on my phone, responding to emails or working on my laptop. I will have my earphones in most of the time, to drown out the noise of people chatting. But they are as entitled to do that as I'm to work, and speak on the phone because the train is a shared space.

If you don't like that, pay for first class, go to the quiet Carriage, take a bus, take your car because it sounds like a you problem.

Trains are not quiet spaces. People talk to each other on them. The person I am speaking to happens to be on the other end of my phone.
I don't have it loudspeaker and I am softly spoken anyway.

If you have a problem with that, then use headphones.

I came to say this 😂 I get my ears out, it passes the time well, gegging in on someone else's drama! 🤣🤣