Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

Tom Anderson wrote:
Get up, walk to the vestibule, and make your call from there. This is not
rocket science.

But if you're the sort of person who likes to pace up and down
while talking on the phone, please try not to set off the automatic
door each time you pass it...

Adam

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:10:14 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
wrote:

So do you want nanny laws or not?

I want everyone to show consideration and respect for those around them.

Of course. Now answer the question.

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

In message , at
23:17:51 on Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Tom Anderson
remarked:
I don't care what people do on trains/busses/in public as long as it
doesn't affect other people. As soon as that happens, the
perpetrator has over-stepped the mark, and should stop.

So if someone insists on silence, and that affects someone who has an
important phone call to make...

Get up, walk to the vestibule, and make your call from there. This is
not rocket science.

We then have the situation that what one person does (insist on quiet)
affects other people (who have to move to the vestibule).

But as a way to make a call with less impact on one's fellow travellers
(and I'd always want people to minimise the impact) it will indeed work
on *some* trains.

It's a poor choice in something like an HST because the vestibules are
very noisy, and impossible in most modern EMU/DMU because they don't
have vestibules in the sense you probably mean. And there are issues
related to leaving ones seat (with or without possessions left behind)
and if the train is full and standing, moving around it may not be an
option.
--
Roland Perry

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

In message , at 23:23:07 on Fri, 18 Nov 2005,
A Woodcraft remarked:
Get up, walk to the vestibule, and make your call from there. This is not
rocket science.

But if you're the sort of person who likes to pace up and down
while talking on the phone, please try not to set off the automatic
door each time you pass it...

The HST I was on the other evening had a door with a hair trigger. It
continuously slammed open and closed (much faster than I had previously
noticed possible) every time anyone was stood with a few feet of it
anywhere in the vestibule.
--
Roland Perry

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

Laurence Payne wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:10:14 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
wrote:

So do you want nanny laws or not?

I want everyone to show consideration and respect for those around
them.

Of course. Now answer the question.

If people were to show consideration and respect for those around them not
only would new nanny laws not be needed, but many existing restrictions
could be removed.

The direct answer to your question that as long as some people make life
unpleasant for others then I will tolerate nanny laws since I'm not one of
those who is being restricted.

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

In message , at
08:20:13 on Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Brimstone
remarked:
The direct answer to your question that as long as some people make life
unpleasant for others then I will tolerate nanny laws since I'm not one of
those who is being restricted.

....yet
--
Roland Perry

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
08:20:13 on Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Brimstone
remarked:
The direct answer to your question that as long as some people make
life unpleasant for others then I will tolerate nanny laws since I'm
not one of those who is being restricted.

...yet

Since none of my activities (nor those of milions of others) make life
unpleasant for others it's not going to happen.

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

"Stephen (Sausagefans.com)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...
I have a proposal for dealing with (punishing) people who make loud
business phone calls on trains (or any other public transport). ("I'm
on the train ... buy! ... sell!")

Record the calls or make some note, especially if there's anything
that sounds confidential, and publish transcripts or summaries on the
web or a newsgroup.

Tell them the volumn of their call is bothering you and could they keep
it down?

I had a group on schoolchildren sitting behind me on Thursday and one of
them had an MP3 player pumpin' out some dread riffin' at a loud volume.

Fortunately, I had my new Bliss album recorded on my phone and was able to
humiliate him into submission. Stress over.

;-)

--
Brian
"Anyway, if you have been, thanks for listening."

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:20:13 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
wrote:

The direct answer to your question that as long as some people make life
unpleasant for others then I will tolerate nanny laws since I'm not one of
those who is being restricted.

Lucky you're perfect then :-)

Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
 

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:42:42 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
wrote:

Since none of my activities (nor those of milions of others) make life
unpleasant for others it's not going to happen.

Nanny laws are a very slippery slope.