My Train Journey This Morning

**Gibbon** · 13 May 2010, 07:34

Originally posted by gricerboy View Post

Boarded the train this morning only to realise that it had a reverse carriage configuration so found myself in coach D, the quiet carriage, instead of coach A. Well, I didn't realise this at the time and I had just put my Walkman on & was privately rocking out to ELO when I had a tap on the shoulder and was informed by my neighbour (who was wearing spandex pants, hi vis jacket and STILL had his bike helmet on) that this was the quiet carriage and could I kindly turn my appliance off as they are not permitted. Well, I have never been surrounded by such a bunch of intolerant smug little Nazis in all my life. Even the bloody clatter of my laptop keyboard elicited a reaction from one of them! I swear they were all trying to kneecap me with their bloody fold up bikes as we filed off the carriage at Swindon.

Competion too much ?

**shaunbhoy** · 13 May 2010, 07:36

Originally posted by gricerboy View Post

Boarded the train this morning only to realise that it had a reverse carriage configuration so found myself in coach D, the quiet carriage, instead of coach A. Well, I didn't realise this at the time and I had just put my Walkman on & was privately rocking out to ELO when I had a tap on the shoulder and was informed by my neighbour (who was wearing spandex pants, hi vis jacket and STILL had his bike helmet on) that this was the quiet carriage and could I kindly turn my appliance off as they are not permitted. Well, I have never been surrounded by such a bunch of intolerant smug little Nazis in all my life. Even the bloody clatter of my laptop keyboard elicited a reaction from one of them! I swear they were all trying to kneecap me with their bloody fold up bikes as we filed off the carriage at Swindon.

How exactly would that work?

**norrahe** · 13 May 2010, 08:16

Originally posted by zeitghost

I chewed the legs off a chav in the Quiet Carriage when his portable telephonic appliance annoyed me.

And rightly so!

It is after all the QUIET carriage.

**DaveB** · 13 May 2010, 08:17

Originally posted by zeitghost

I chewed the legs off a chav in the Quiet Carriage when his portable telephonic appliance annoyed me.

Originally posted by norrahe View Post

And rightly so!

It is after all the QUIET carriage.

I hope you told him to stop screaming so loudly.

**lilelvis2000** · 13 May 2010, 09:43

Originally posted by gricerboy View Post

Boarded the train this morning only to realise that it had a reverse carriage configuration so found myself in coach D, the quiet carriage, instead of coach A. Well, I didn't realise this at the time and I had just put my Walkman on & was privately rocking out to ELO when I had a tap on the shoulder and was informed by my neighbour (who was wearing spandex pants, hi vis jacket and STILL had his bike helmet on) that this was the quiet carriage and could I kindly turn my appliance off as they are not permitted. Well, I have never been surrounded by such a bunch of intolerant smug little Nazis in all my life. Even the bloody clatter of my laptop keyboard elicited a reaction from one of them! I swear they were all trying to kneecap me with their bloody fold up bikes as we filed off the carriage at Swindon.

Too bad they missed

**PM-Junkie** · 13 May 2010, 10:36

Originally posted by gricerboy View Post

Boarded the train this morning only to realise that it had a reverse carriage configuration so found myself in coach D, the quiet carriage, instead of coach A. Well, I didn't realise this at the time and I had just put my Walkman on & was privately rocking out to ELO when I had a tap on the shoulder and was informed by my neighbour (who was wearing spandex pants, hi vis jacket and STILL had his bike helmet on) that this was the quiet carriage and could I kindly turn my appliance off as they are not permitted. Well, I have never been surrounded by such a bunch of intolerant smug little Nazis in all my life. Even the bloody clatter of my laptop keyboard elicited a reaction from one of them! I swear they were all trying to kneecap me with their bloody fold up bikes as we filed off the carriage at Swindon.

So which bit of the word "quiet" are you too stupid to understand?

I regularly sit in the quiet carriage because I want a bit of peace and quiet - away from idiots talking on mobile phones and idiots who think everyone else wants to listen to what they are listening to. One carriage out of a whole train...yet everyone else is wrong and you are right. Nice.

**gricerboy** · 13 May 2010, 10:40

Originally posted by PM-Junkie View Post

So which bit of the word "quiet" are you too stupid to understand?

I regularly sit in the quiet carriage because I want a bit of peace and quiet - away from idiots talking on mobile phones and idiots who think everyone else wants to listen to what they are listening to. One carriage out of a whole train...yet everyone else is wrong and you are right. Nice.

Please do get off your high horse!! - the train was in reverse configuration & I didn't even realise I was in the quiet carriage. Once I found out that I was, I turned my Walkman off. I think people complaining about the sound of typing is well over the top though.

**Churchill** · 13 May 2010, 10:54

Originally posted by gricerboy View Post

Please do get off your high horse!! - the train was in reverse configuration & I didn't even realise I was in the quiet carriage. Once I found out that I was, I turned my Walkman off. I think people complaining about the sound of typing is well over the top though.

**stillooking** · 13 May 2010, 11:07

Originally posted by gricerboy View Post

Once I found out that I was, I turned my Walkman off. I think people complaining about the sound of typing is well over the top though.

different things can be irritating to different people but hammering at a keyboard in the quiet coach is v.annoying, on the flip side somebody wearing spandex pants can be rather vulgar

My Train Journey This Morning