Tuesday, July 15, 2014
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Apparently reading the newspaper can garner dirty looks too. As I've recently discovered. (Get nooshed LSE rider!)
ReplyDeleteGeeze, people, it's a quiet zone NOT a SILENT zone!!! That means we don't want to hear frat party volume sitting 9 quads away. Or hear you giving your travel agent your credit card number (next time Imma writin' it down!)
Golly, have we become so intolerant at slight noises? Such first world problems.
I do get it. When everything is really quiet, the jangle, the crinkle, etc. can get to you.
ReplyDeleteAs for crinkling, that has got to be the worst. Got on the 6.41 train. Someone from a stop before me to 3 after me was eating chips. And not paying attention to the bag. So the crinkling was excessive because he didn't know where or if there were any more left. Never said anything but it is more than irritating.
Stupid o'clock in the morning amplifies ALL THE THINGS.
ReplyDeleteHow does Squiggles know that the person got off 3 stops after them?
ReplyDeleteI think people are becoming a little too militant in the quiet zone. I don't sit there myself, though I have to admit I do find people who are crinkling their wrappers while eating annoying and ditto on the bracelet clanking and loud jewelry, but I would never give someone a dirty look for it.
ReplyDeleteSome people have taken that Quiet Zone a little too far and a little too seriously.
ReplyDeleteThe quiet zone is not the death zone last I checked and frankly, it's PUBLIC transportation!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly! And I think the photo happened just after 7am. To me, that is still Stupid O'clock.
ReplyDeleteThen again, how does she type with those on? I occasionally wear a bracelet, and without a doubt, within about 20 mins of real work starting, it is off.
@Anon,
ReplyDeleteI meant this person was on the train before I got on at Ajax. This person finished his chips by Eglinton Station, 3 stops after the one I got on.
I'm turning pages, I'm not using the paper to stuff a box for shipping.
ReplyDeleteOne man's silence is another man's roar, I guess.
Some people don't take the Quiet Zine seriously at all.
ReplyDeleteOr it at least doesn't seem to apply to them.
Quiet means quiet to everyone, not your so definition of quiet. There are two other GO Train levels where you are free to continue to be as noisy at you like.
In a word MOVE if you know you won't be QUIET.
I'd fully support a Militant Silent Zone.
ReplyDeletePlease notify me if there is ever a time that a consensus of any size group of human beings is reached as to the definition of "quiet" (or anything else for that matter). I think the statement that the Quiet Zone "means quiet to everyone" is a self-defeating concept.
ReplyDeleteon the bright side, her bangles probably glow in the dark if the power goes out... :)
ReplyDeleteI got shushed for blowing my nose...once!
ReplyDeleteSounds like some of the Quiet Zone riders need to get laid or make some drastic changes in their lives. Take your misery elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteWhat about a person snoring in a quiet zone? you cant give him a death stare he's sleeping, I would love to see someone wakeup a snoring person in a quiet zone =)
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