Re: OT: Slight hassle

Peter Ceresole <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ian McCall <ian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You get more comfortable seats, some carriages have tables which is
handy for laptop use, and the carriage is more quiet. Unless some loon
entirely fails to make the distinction between public transport and his
private office of course.

Office schmoffice, it's best when they fail to make the distinction
between public transport and their boudoir. Some years ago, on a
commuter train from Mortlake to Waterloo in the rush hour, a young woman
was on her mobile to a friend. Apparently she'd just been to a session
with her therapist and described in that loud telephone voice the
morning's discussion about her sexual hangups. The only other sound in
the carriage was the thud of jaws dropping.

I've wondered since, from time to time, whether this was genuine
weirdness or exhibitionism. Whatever, it was jolly entertaining.

There is a certain .. I don't know. Some people need to appear in things
like Big Brother, making fools of themselves in front of the entire
nation (and forever, there'll be documentary evidence of whatever they
get up to for a long time, for their grandchildren to get embarrassed
by). That might be just an extreme manifestation of the same phenomenon.



And it's not just trains; long haul planes seem to prompt confidences
too. But that's another story and another occasion.

Oh, do go on:P


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