I can’t tell you how effing annoying it is being stuck in a Quiet Zone on a South West Train with a nutcase 50 year old woman nattering away on her mobile.
What should one do?
There are QUIET ZONE signs everywhere throughout the carriage asking people to avoid using mobile phones, not to use personal stereos and the like.
“My guru has told me not to accept it,” she says, “This is why I need to get into more of a centred zone.”
She’s even wearing sandals. Oh dear. She is, she’s telling her friend, “going to the One World Media Awards tonight,” so that’ll be fun, eh?
I thought of glaring at the sign to get her attention. I thought that might work. I thought of nodding to her and then the sign. Perhaps, I thought, I should tap on her arm and ask her if she’d mind shutting up? Could get ‘done’ for assault though, as a result. These are strange times.
Mobile phones. A great invention, but they shouldn’t be abused, especially not when you’re on a train sat opposite a highly stressed mobile blogger…
For god's sake man, just lean over and clearly, steadily ask her to please hang up or go somewhere else.
she will be shocked that someone from the UK actually had the nerve to engage with a stranger on a matter of protocol/politeness.
Do it. You will feel much empowered. Next time it will feel much easier, believe me.
All breathe together now…..
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“Excuse me, are you aware that this is the quiet carriage?”
If that doesn't result in a satisfactory response remove the phone from her by force and drop it in the nearest drink… see what her guru has to say about that!
Think yourself lucky – you could and up on South West trains sitting opposite me and my apparatus!
I can vouch for that – last time I saw Mr Body he had so much apparatus he had to strap much of it to his belt.
I can vouch for that – last time I saw Mr Body he had so much apparatus he had to strap much of it to his belt.
Think yourself lucky – you could and up on South West trains sitting opposite me and my apparatus!
I can vouch for that – last time I saw Mr Body he had so much apparatus he had to strap much of it to his belt.
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