I used to love traveling by train. You could do some work, relax and prepare meeting your clients. Basically an extension of my office. Compared to flying or driving by car it USED to be less stressful and very productive.
Not anymore.
The last few travels I was constantly surrounded by people blabbing on their cell phones. That is annoying. But it is young blabbering woman that annoy me the most. They high pitched voices and fast talking even penetrates the noise of the train (males voices drown in the noise and are easier to ignore). Even when I put on my headphones and some nice music - I still can hear them.
But most unnerving of all is the content of all that chatter: total idiocy. Blabla about the latest relationship gossip, the latest celebrity crap, what they had for dinner, how they felt about this or that. And they hysterically scream all that important stuff into their pink cell phones like the end of the world is near and all that chatter still could save us.
And that chatter literally goes on for hours. I now even had trips where several woman had more than one cell phone to blabber into (I guess the business line and the relationship phone).
I usually try to escape and find a seat in a section of the train with less woman and less chatter. I tried several times asked these sirens politely to lower their voices. But all you get is a blank stare. Maybe I simply should place myself beside these radio stations and join the conversations, since I am part of the affair anyway?
But one of these days I am gonna freak out and silence one of these chatter boxes forever …
