Plan for dealing with obnoxious phone calls on trains?
Roland Perry wrote:
In message dzZo7CxomoOm-pn2-gf7OyjtMdIJK@localhost, at 13:21:49 on
Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Ian Johnston remarked:
If I can't travel by train because they have a ban on quiet
enjoyment of a can of beer
If you /can't/ travel on a train without having a can of beer, you
have much worse problems than finding alternative transport.
It's the matter of principle about being told what I can and can't do
(where what I want to do doesn't significantly affect anyone else).
Refreshments are beside the point. Although I'd also object if they
told me I couldn't eat a sandwich I'd bought at the station buffet -
the only allowable one being three times the price on board the train.
Or that I could only read one particular newspaper because they had an
agreement with "The Sun" that they'd ban all others, and only sell the
Sun at £2 a copy. No-one ever died because they couldn't read the
Evening Standard on the train, or because they had to pay £2 for a
newspaper, but it's stupid to have those sorts of policies in place.
On their property they can impose whatever rules they like.
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