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loud people on trains.

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geordieminx · 27/01/2009 09:49

more of a rant really. I'm on the train, there is a woman behind me, very posh.

So far in the past 10 minutes i (and everyone else in the carriage) has heard:

How her mummy is in a 'fabby' retirement village, where they dont allow people with altzimers..its not that she doesnt have any sympathy with them but she doesnt want mummy mixing with them and that her financial advisor had recommend it.

How ryan air are now flying to malta so they'll be able to go to their holiday home, but monty is going to take some persuading as he wouldnt set foot on ryan air as it is terribly working class.

And how annabel is taking her exams 6 months early as the teacher thinks she is extremely advanced for her age.

Is there any need to talk about this stuff, at such a volume on the train?

Although it is quite amusing.

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FiveGoMadInDorset · 27/01/2009 09:50

Love Ryan Air being working class

Kbear · 27/01/2009 09:54

LOL - I too suffer the curse of the noisy bastard on the train on a regular basis.

Last week's gem was the "geezer" who was telling the whole train about the death (sounded like a murder) of a friend of his, and the funeral and the coroner's report, the court case and the hoohar with the family and the friends and "don't matter, we'll pay our respects one way or anuvva mate, no danger".

There was loads of smirking behind the paper on our way home and I was dying to ask him "so, what happened to Bill then, what did the coroner say? When's the court case?"

Kbear · 27/01/2009 09:56

Then you get the girls who think everyone is deaf and tell you in great depth about their boyfriend or someone else's boyfriend and how "he ain't no good for 'er and I told her a million times once a cheater always a cheater" - Love it, it's like a little episode of Eastenders on the way home!

plj · 27/01/2009 09:59

I bought an i-pod to drown out the 'loudies' on the train, but sheer nosiness gets the better of me and I end up sitting with the earphones in but the volume off so I can still hear them!

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geordieminx · 27/01/2009 10:08

i have ds with me, he's only 21 months so ipod not really an option. Although he has been a lot quieter than posh

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Kbear · 27/01/2009 10:10

And people have the nerve to glare at adorable children who are just chatting to their mum - they really wind me up, especially as most of them probably have kids at home.

Carmenere · 27/01/2009 10:12

You see I quite enjoy listening to peoples conversations on the train most recent was a bloke who was on the way to see the bookie who had swindled him out of a couple of hundred quid This was highly entertaining as he had at least three different conversations about how to work out the odds on a yankie(in fairness I think even by my bad maths he had been ripped off)
I think all the different stories would make a good film/tv plot actually.

Kbear · 27/01/2009 10:13

Entertaining sometimes yes but sometimes you just want to read your book and find you read the same paragraph 27 times!!! Geezer was very entertaining - it was like being on the train with Ray Winstone except without the gorgeousness that is Ray!

stealthsquiggle · 27/01/2009 10:26

My pet peeve is hen parties. Because of school run etc I keep ending up on the first off-peak train into London - I arrived at the office in a foul mood the other day when there were 3 hen parties on the train

Cies · 27/01/2009 10:43

LOL. If it's interesting then fine.

If it's Gary in Accounts talking to Sharon in Marketing about the new sales targets and diversification objectives then I start wanting to crawl up the walls with boredom.

Stayingsunnygirl · 27/01/2009 10:45

Geordieminx - perhaps you could tap posh on the shoulder and ask her to speak up a bit, as there are some people in the carriage who can't hear her!!

UnquietDad · 27/01/2009 10:47

I would think she deserves a slap simply for the use of the word "fabby". And also for calling her mother "mummy" at her age.

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geordieminx · 27/01/2009 10:48

ds is far from adorable, well maybe just a little bit.

He's currently sat on the table shouting digger digger digger

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geordieminx · 27/01/2009 10:48

ds is far from adorable, well maybe just a little bit.

He's currently sat on the table shouting digger digger digger

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MsG · 27/01/2009 10:49

Yeah, if it's interesting I don't mind but that woman sounds AWFUL. Totally insensitive too.

stealthsquiggle · 27/01/2009 10:55

Can you not get DS good and coated in biscuit and then let him "wander" past this woman (ideally just before you get off)?

UnquietDad · 27/01/2009 10:59

A few years ago, coming back from seeing the Grand National once on the packed train (I'm not a horsey/ gambling person at all, it was a mate's stag do), there was a young man on a mobile asking his mate all about a recent sexual encounter. "Did yuz get off with that giiiirl, then, like?" he asked in broad Scouse, before having to cut the call short. When he rang off, several people in the carriage were asking him, "well? did he?"

abraid · 27/01/2009 11:01

I'm sorry, you're all too tolerant.

Loud people on trains should simply be thrown off.

Almeida · 27/01/2009 11:03

lol - I love conversations like this!!

Working class!.....she's on the train lol of course unless you're in super posh first class !!!

blueshoes · 27/01/2009 11:21

She might be 'posh', geordie, but I wonder whether she has any class. Rant away.

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geordieminx · 27/01/2009 11:38

we got our own back....ds filled his nappy just before we were about to get off, so i had to change him on the floor at the end of the carriage...right behind her seat. Twas stinking!

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geordieminx · 27/01/2009 11:41

we got our own back....ds filled his nappy just before we were about to get off, so i had to change him on the floor at the end of the carriage...right behind her seat. Twas stinking!

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gagamama · 27/01/2009 11:50

I was stuck standing next to a particularly memorable one on a very packed, very delayed train a while back. He looked like a cross between Boris Johnson and King Henry VIII and sounded like he belonged to the landed gentry. We were treated to a very loud conversation which included how upset he was that his golf club was flooded, his wife's reading circle, the cheese and wine club he was starting, and his recent holidays to Barbados.

I found it thoroughly entertaining.

spokette · 27/01/2009 12:00

DH and I were once on a train and everyone in the carriage had to listen to a young girl (who was no more that 20yo) go on about her forthcoming bankruptcy.

My Mum was on the bus and this woman was talking about her boyfriend who had just been sent down, what he had done and how it was not right blah, blah, blah. She then ended the call by saying "Anyway, can't say too much because I'm on the bus and people might be listening". Doughnut.

Stayingsunnygirl · 27/01/2009 12:02

If I was your mum, spokette, I'd have been so tempted to say, "No, it's OK - no-one's listening to you, dear."

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