Of inconsiderate people on trains.
Now. Obviously I don’t travel on trains, but one of my underlings sent me a text this morning (being a kind and generous boss that I am, I do tend to allow them to text me, call me by my first name etc.)
Anyway, he is a generally quiet chap, well spoken and polite, hard worker too and he seemed to be getting increasingly agitated by some ugly woman in his carriage who seemed to think that proclaiming her business intentions down her mobile phone to as many people as possible and as loud as possible so that everybody on the carriage heard and would understand just how important she thought she was.
Now I believe that she was doing this to make herself feel better about her rather unfortunate visage but unfortunately, a quick word for this woman. Firstly, if you were as important as you seemed to be proclaiming you were to the entire carriage. YOU WOULD NOT BE SITTING ON A TRAIN!
Trains are the transport of the masses, for the unwashed scum. If you were as important as you were bigging yourself up to be, you would be flying either by private jet, or if it wasn’t too far, a helicopter. Hell, you might have even decided to take the Bentley but you would not be sitting in the second class carriage of a train with the great unwashed masses.
So get over yourself and stop pretending you’re important. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was actually nobody on the end of her phone.
Now, I accept the need for mobile phones. I have one, although the number is kept on a strictly need to know basis. What I don’t accept is the need to shout down one.
If you’re that deaf that you need to shout, you shouldn’t really have any need for a phone in the first place and if you’re that unattractive that you do this to make people think you’re important so they see past your unfortunate face, I suggest some sort of head covering bag with gag attachment, keep everybody around you just that little bit happier.
Tags: inconsiderate people, mobil phones, railways, trains, transport
November 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
In all seriousness, let me know the details of the journey your man was on (date, time and line, etc) and I’ll have my staff look into it.
If this diabolical event happened on one of my trains I’ll make sure it never happens again.
I can’t have decent pasengers subjected to this kind of behaviour.
If it wasn’t one of mine, I’ll see what I can do, however, if it was a Virgin train you’re out of luck. Eversince I tried that ill advised hostile takeover, I get no grace with that shower of shit.