Comments on: Talkative travelers http://www.elliott.org/the-troubleshooter/talkative-travelers/ Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott's site. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: elliot hutkin http://www.elliott.org/the-troubleshooter/talkative-travelers/comment-page-1/#comment-47084 elliot hutkin Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:22:33 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/talkative-travelers/#comment-47084 (this is a REALLY OLD story) but...on today's trains, the first or last car is often designated a"quiet car" with no loud media or cell phones allowed...problem solved by the carriers! (this is a REALLY OLD story) but…on today’s trains, the first or last car is often designated a”quiet car” with no loud media or cell phones allowed…problem solved by the carriers!

]]> By: Ronda http://www.elliott.org/the-troubleshooter/talkative-travelers/comment-page-1/#comment-25320 Ronda Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:48:16 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/talkative-travelers/#comment-25320 I say assign train carts, with signs, into three catagories. sign 1. quiet costomers 2. talk too much and too loudly passengers and 3. business passengers who apparently are deaf and talk on they're cell phones... there problem fixed... and as punishment for getting on the wrong cart, being kicked off the train... whether its stopped or not... (this is why i dont take trains often :D) ((plus i'd belong in the talk too muchn and too loudly passenger cart)) I say assign train carts, with signs, into three catagories. sign 1. quiet costomers 2. talk too much and too loudly passengers and 3. business passengers who apparently are deaf and talk on they’re cell phones… there problem fixed… and as punishment for getting on the wrong cart, being kicked off the train… whether its stopped or not… (this is why i dont take trains often :D) ((plus i’d belong in the talk too muchn and too loudly passenger cart))

]]> By: Hollz http://www.elliott.org/the-troubleshooter/talkative-travelers/comment-page-1/#comment-19435 Hollz Wed, 13 May 2009 06:49:59 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/talkative-travelers/#comment-19435 My question is, would you feel this way about two passengers sitting beside one another, or is it the cell phone that bothers you? It seems to me that us cell phone users get blamed/written up about all the time, while people who are just plain LOUD get a pass. I know this was written almost nine years ago, but its still something I hear about all the time, and it really bothers me that people are complaining because of a cell phone. I'd bet you double or nothing, that if the letter had gone something like this : I rode from Washington to New York on Amtrak’s Metroliner last week and a person behind me talked to her seatmate literally all the way to Philadelphia. The situation is becoming intolerable. My direct appeals to Amtrak have been fruitless. You (or anyone else) would not have published it. I sincerly hope that the person writing it wouldn't have sent it. My question is, would you feel this way about two passengers sitting beside one another, or is it the cell phone that bothers you? It seems to me that us cell phone users get blamed/written up about all the time, while people who are just plain LOUD get a pass. I know this was written almost nine years ago, but its still something I hear about all the time, and it really bothers me that people are complaining because of a cell phone. I’d bet you double or nothing, that if the letter had gone something like this :

I rode from Washington to New York on Amtrak’s Metroliner last week and a person behind me talked to her seatmate literally all the way to Philadelphia.

The situation is becoming intolerable. My direct appeals to Amtrak have been fruitless.

You (or anyone else) would not have published it. I sincerly hope that the person writing it wouldn’t have sent it.

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