Thread: How Big Of A Life Nit Am I? (Cell phones on trains)
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Old 07-31-2007, 10:11 PM
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Default Re: How Big Of A Life Nit Am I? (Cell phones on trains)
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I really don't get why people think it is such a big deal that people talk on the train. You're reading a paper, not preforming brain surgery or recording an album.

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Agreed. Seems kind of nuts to me to think someone owes you silence on the train. The only things I can see them owing you are a reasonable volume and not using any curse words or talking about things you could reasonably assume would offend a lot of people -- like saying racist crap, or particularly derogatory political or religious comments, or talking graphically or at length about sex, or toilet humor.

Guids has a good point that sometimes you have to use your time where you can find it too.

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This is correct. Tolerating minor conversation ought to be standard.
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