Noisy gits
[Rant Begins]
I catch the train to work early in the morning. I get out of bed at 0500 (or 0510-0520 depending on how long I need to argue with myself) and get myself down to the train station by 0600 so I can go to the gym every morning at work. It’s all going farily well, except there’s one particular burr under my proverbial saddle (and when you have a saddle as big as mine, that is a real problem).
Every morning, a couple of stations after I get on – three people get on the train, always in the same carriage. I get in the front carriage of the train because it’s the only one I’m pretty sure of being able to get myself a seating section of my own, which I prefer. They always get into the front carriage too. The trio consist of a large lady, her medium sized husband and a thinner older guy – in themselves, innocuous enough, feasibly harmless. But once they’ve seated themselves (occasionally even as they board the train) they begin rabbiting in a steady stream of italian at the very top of their voices, and don’t let up even for breath all the way into the city. I have noise excluding ear buds on my mp3 player and I still can’t drown them out. IT’S SIX O’CLOCK IN THE BLOODY MORNING PEOPLE, HAVE SOME GODDAMN CONSIDERATION AND SHUT THE HELL UP!
Or at least lower your voices…. please. No really, it gets me all emotional and everything. Being awake and on public transport at that time of the am is traumatic enough without that kind of volume…
[Rant ends]
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You’re not wrong. What would be better though is more futuristic transport options with little white noise generators and sound suppressors so you have a ‘privacy’ field you can opt to turn on which keeps other sound out and your conversation in. Now that would be cool…[Reply]