Proof you can't stop crazy, even in the Quiet Zone. Introducing "Sibling loopholes"

from:		kk
to:		cj@thiscrazytrain.com
date:		Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:29 PM
subject:		Quiet Zone is for Sissies

Hi CJ,

You must get emails like this every day (Let me just stop this email right here... OH MY GOD. I get emails about the Quiet Zone that are not of this planet and usually always about food such as "this guy brought McDonalds into the QZ and proceeded to noisily eat his French Fries and drink his drink" - OH THE HUMANITY!) but I thought I'd share a quiet zone loophole I learned Friday.

I was on the 5:10 Lakeshore East, sitting in the Quiet Zone. The woman behind me was talking in a lowered voice - not low, just down anotch - but she talked constantly to her companion from Union to Main. I turned a couple of times to glance back at her. I thought this was asemi-subtle, non-confrontational way to remind her of where she was sitting. Y'know - in the Quiet Zone. After my second look back, she turned to me and hissed,"Yyeesss?" 

I said,"This is the quiet zone." 

"I'm talking to my sister!"

I pointed to the sign and repeated calmly, "You're in the quiet zone. And you're talking."

She repeats that she's "talking to my sister!" and "You don't need to turn around five times to look at me!"

A couple equals two, not five. Whatevs.

So as it turns out, the quiet zone doesn't apply to you when you're chatting with your sibling. I guess she was also exempt from using good manners.