Matthew Malthouse wrote in
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:49:59 +0100 Jack Taylor wrote:
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} "Andrew Black" wrote in message
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} Helen Deborah Vecht wrote in
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} There are some 'quiet' coaches on trains. Thing is mobile phones
are } useful whilst on PT, especially if there's a delay. Phones
can be } tamed so that they don't disturb other passengers much. I
really don't } think my sending text messages disturbs anybody.
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} I have no problem with short phone calls ("sorry I am going to be
half an } hour late"). It's the long babble that annoys me (".... I
saw Darren } yesterday..... He is going out with Tracey ....."). I
recknon people talk } louder on mobile phones than on landline
phones. }
} Some people seem to be so utterly insecure that they are unable to
spend an } hour on public transport without speaking to someone/anyone
for the } duration. I've been on PT where passengers in close proximity
have } systematically worked their way through their entire phone book
to sate } their desperate need for company. How sad!

Most inexplicable to me are those conversations held on the way home
with someone at that very place waiting for the caller to arrive.

More inexplicable are those whose lives are so hollow they have to eavesdrop
on others then denigrate them based on half an eavesdropped conversation.