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| Wait, what? You cannot listen to music on headphones in the quiet cars or you cannot listen to music loudly on headphones in the quiet cars?
Maybe technology is rolling backward, but even when I was a kid we possessed the ability to listen to music on headphones without others being able to hear the music unless they were ear-to-ear with you.
I have heard people on trams and trains listening to music on headphones at permanent-hearing-damage levels and it can be annoying. Doesn't that mean the problem is volume control not headphones? | |
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The quiet carriages of trains don't allow headphones, mobile phone use or even conversation.
There's a chuffin' big sticker on the door and little individual stickers on each window of the compartment in four languages informing that it is the "Quiet Carriage".
I often use the quiet carriages if I need to work or prepare for a meeting and it's quite annoying when somebody decides these rules don't apply to them and has "tsss, tsss, tsss" coming with alarming regularity from their earphones.
There is only normally one quiet carriage on the whole train so there is plenty of space in the rest of the train to go and sit and make the level of noise you wish to do.
That urban myth about the guy on the London underground calmly snipping the cable of some bloke's headphones is sorely tempting to bring to life sometimes...
