To Mr Mobile phone man.....

[yenrod]

I once wondered why I was getting 'attention' when on in a quiet zone Virgin train.

Stupid thing was I actually picked the carriage for the 'quiet zone'...what a jerk I was..

 

[hackbike 666]

Top marks to hackers!

As for your big-mouthed manager - what a c0ck. I haven't seen him in a while but he struck me as someone who thought their day complete if they'd done somebody a bad turn.

I should know it,I've signed that piece of railway line down to Poole and originally Weymouth since 1992.

The manager should know better instead of being a self important tit.

 

[Arch]

Correct! Geography's way of telling you your mobile phone call is over.

It's very annoying. It's just about then that I'm texting my sister to find out if she's going to be at the station or whether I need to walk up to the house....

(on silent if I'm in the quiet zone, of course)

 

[PBancroft]

For my sins, I used to work in a library at a sixth form college. In the silent area no less. My most sincere apologies now to anyone there I annoyed by telling them to shush.

The absolute worst part was doing the monitoring. The students hated me for doing it, and I hated doing it. I once asked a student to turn off his mobile phone because it was a silent area. I couldn't help but agree with his response: But its the only place in college where I can hear the other person speak.

 

[MacB]

Years ago I was on the tube, circle line, after work, and it's the usual jammed solid, no talking routine. A young woman was reading a broadsheet and a man, very proper looking, tall, 60ish, full pinstripe, bowler, brolly, was reading over her shoulder. When she went to turn the page he asked if she could hold on as he wasn't finished an article. He took ages so she said, here take the page and I'll carry on reading. He was really loud and pompous and insisted on only taking the article and paying a couple of pence for that. He then proceeded to take her paper and tear the article out, making a right mess of the rest of the paper.

That's the abridged version and this lasted 10-15 minutes. I've always wondered if it was some sort of windup. He seemed such a charicature he could have been an actor hired to do it. The poor girl went bright red and couldn't get off the tube fast enough.

 

[atbman]

Back in the day, when they were the size of housebricks, I were on t'train to Cornwall and a self-important twerp was ringing all and sundry, opening, very loudly, every time, with, "Hello, I'm on the train".

Finally, with everyone in the carriage pretty much cheezed off, he dialled up another number, and, before he could get any further than, "Hello..." about a dozen of us, by some miracle of group telepathy, called out simultaneously, "He's on the Train!".

A blessed silence prevailed thereafter.

 

[hackbike 666]

I don't particularly like mobile phones as people are too stupid to realise they are a threat to everyone else when they are using them.

 

[Arch]

Back in the day, when they were the size of housebricks, I were on t'train to Cornwall and a self-important twerp was ringing all and sundry, opening, very loudly, every time, with, "Hello, I'm on the train".

Finally, with everyone in the carriage pretty much cheezed off, he dialled up another number, and, before he could get any further than, "Hello..." about a dozen of us, by some miracle of group telepathy, called out simultaneously, "He's on the Train!".

A blessed silence prevailed thereafter.

Lovely!

(my sister and I had a game for a while, where if one was travelling to see the other, the one at home would say "where are you" in the hope of tricking the other into saying "I'm on the train". It never worked!)