London Banter - View Single Post - Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?

Martin Underwood

wrote in
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One plan would be to allow you to book the quiet carriage (or a loud
one) on qjump / thetrainline etc. I want to be able to use my mobile
on the train, but I invariably get allocated the flippin' "quiet
carriage" which even without the mobiles seems pretty noisy to me.

Even if you're in the quiet carriage, that doesn't stop fellow passengers
from talking loudly to each other or eating noisy (and smelly) foods from
bags that rustle or which crunch when eaten.

The other day when I went up to London, there was also a guy who was built
like a brick ****house (and therefore whom no-one was going to argue with)
who proceeded to play with the ringtones on his mobile phone for most of the
journey from Didcot to Reading. Every few seconds he pressed a button and it
gave a musical ringtone for a couple of seconds, making him grin and
chuckle. He never seemed to tire of doing this.