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.

Comments?
Suggestions?
Does a site or newsgroup already exist for this?

Andrew Yarnwood wrote:
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.

Comments?
Suggestions?

I travel in the quiet zone and if someone is on the phone and they give
out their number I call them back later in the day to remind them of
their error and point out that they were careless in giving out such
information in the quiet zone.

I don't wait to listen to their excuses, four letter words or threats -
but then hang-up. CLI never withheld from my disposable PAYG handset!

Andrew Yarnwood wrote in message
...
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.

Comments?
Suggestions?
Does a site or newsgroup already exist for this?


Carry a cassette/cd player loaded with load pub sound effects - music,
drunken voices, glasses clinking - and play it when they say 'I'm on the
train'?

Evil, good but evil.

Now can you come up with a way to deal with screaming brats and larger
louts.

wrote in message
ups.com...
Evil, good but evil.

Now can you come up with a way to deal with screaming brats and larger
louts.


but not smaller louts??

Paul

wrote:
Evil, good but evil.

Now can you come up with a way to deal with screaming brats and larger
louts.


Or even smaller louts.

:-)



PhilD

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wrote:
Evil, good but evil.

Now can you come up with a way to deal with screaming brats and larger
louts.


It's the smaller louts that I can't stand.

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:20:32 +0000, "N.I.B."
wrote:

wrote:
Evil, good but evil.

Now can you come up with a way to deal with screaming brats and larger
louts.


It's the smaller louts that I can't stand.

I must say, I'm impressed by the way that three different people made
substantively the same comment so close together

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James Farrar wrote:
I must say, I'm impressed by the way that three different people made
substantively the same comment so close together


It's not great minds thinking alike, I can assure you of that much.

Not sure about "larger louts" (seems a bit fattist to me) but screaming
brats, or "children" as we call them, have as much right to be on a
train as you do (assuming they are not in the quiet carriage). With the
best will in the world, children sometimes make loud unexpected noises
and even responsible parents cannot - and indeed should not - expect
them to remain mute on a long train journey.


wrote:
Evil, good but evil.

Now can you come up with a way to deal with screaming brats and larger
louts.