Re: OT: Slight hassle

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:34:24 +0100, Peter Ceresole 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.

There's a term for this - I can't remember it; city blindness? crowd
isolation? - that describes the way that when humans are crowded in with
other humans that they don't know, regularly and for long periods, they
actually become relatively 'unaware' that those people are there. Other
people become furniture, rather than actual individuals.

Mobile phones have just made that more obvious.

-z-
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