‘Enjoy the rest of your ride': Man gets even with passenger on train ride who signals him to ‘shush’ after being requested that he speak on the phone elsewhere

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Eleonora Bader
Jul 20, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Riding the train isn't half as bad as taking the bus, but even then you can meet some pretty colorful characters… you know the type. Rude and entitled, these passengers seem to have some kind of personal vendetta against you, which isn't possible, considering you don't even know them. In this case, OP was on a 4-hour train ride, in a small compartment, with a due wearing a business suit who had a snotty air about him. The dude kept taking phone calls, talking loudly for a long time, biding his time as the train ride progressed. OP was getting more and more annoyed, thinking how this person needed a lesson or two in manners but didn't do anything. That is until the dude initiated a phone call himself.

As in, the dude deliberately decided that OP had to listen to even more of his conversations. OP then asked the dude nicely to take these calls in the corridor, but the only reply OP got from him was a stumpy little finger and a 'shush'. Enough was enough… petty revenge was now on the table. To find out how OP carried out his own petty payback, scroll down. For more, here is a carpenter who refused to accept a promotion, then quit, taking $45,000 worth of tools with him.

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    Font - Posted by u/skanus_cepelinai 21 hours ago I ruined his obnoxious phonecalls I was on a 4 hour train ride, in a small compartment of six seats. One guy in a business suit joined me.
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    Font - I was sitting in the window seat facing the direction the train was going, he was sitting in the middle seat in the opposite direction. I watched a movie on my laptop (edit: obviously with headphones, didn't think to add it until a commenter asked), he was typing away on his.
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  • 03
    Font - Then his phone rang, he took the call and started talking as if he was alone in the room. You know, asking how the caller's day is going, taking his sweet time to chat with them. I thought this was rude, but who knows, maybe it's his niece who calls twice a year max. After 10 or so
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  • 04
    Font - minutes, he hangs up and I can turn off the subtitles (if I had turned up the volume enough to drown out his babbling, I would have probably gotten a tinnitus after the day). Some time later he gets another phone call. And he literally says "no no, it's fine, I have plenty of time",
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  • 05
    Font - WTF man?! At this point, I start glaring at him and when he notices, he kinda looks uncomfortable, but apparently not uncomfortable enough to leave the carriage or speed up his call. The call ends and I can continue my movie in peace.
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    Font - UNTIL that son of a sausage takes out his phone and calls someone!! Like, he deliberately decides that I have to listen to one more of his conversations, instead of, I don't know, maybe calling later? Or from somewhere else? Or maybe texting?
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    Font - While he is waiting for the caller to pick up, I finally speak up and ask him to take his calls in the corridor, to which, I s t you not, he raises his stumpy little finger in order to quiet me down and shakes his head. You
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    Font - know, the exact shushing gesture moms use when they are on the phone and their kid comes up to ask for a cupcake? At that point, I had enough. I had zero desire to invest more energy in him by either confronting him again
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  • 09
    Font - or hunting down the train conductor, but I did have an appetite for the chips I had in my bag, originally intended for vegging out on the sofa after arriving at home.
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  • 10
    Font - I opened the bag and started eating those bad boys. I didn't smack my lips or eat with an open mouth (because disgusting) but I did bite into each chip as noisily as I could. Dude started to glare daggers at me. Finished his phone call after a few minutes. I put the chips away.
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    Font - After some time, he gets a call. Accepts the call. I take out the chips and start eating. Dude starts glaring daggers, I pretend not to notice. Then finally, finally, he goes "wait a minute, I have trouble to hear you" and takes the call to the corridor.
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    Font - Special Profile2697 19 hr. ago I would have used my speaker to watch the movie during every call! ↑ 1.5k Reply Share
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  • 13
    Font - +1. 18 hr. ago Pretend to call someone at the same time, then loudly repeat his side of the conversation every time he speaks. Obnoxious echo. seven-cents 310 Reply Share
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    Font - dusty_relic What I have done in these situations is take out my phone and pretend that I am on the other end of an identical +1 15 hr. ago . conversation, so every time he says something I would respond to what the obnoxious
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    Font - passenger said but pretend that I was talking to someone else. It freaks people out and turns an annoying situation into a fun game. You have to be able to not look at the person and keep a straight face though. Reply Share 82
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    Font - Future_Unlucky · 16 hr. ago I took the train the other other day (wearing headphones) and a middle aged man got a phone call and decides to take it on speaker phone. They talk about some random fotballer and what she had
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    Font - said in an interview, about the wheather etc. IE total BS with no actual meaning. So I said "excuse me but you please stop taking your call on the loudspeaker?", he looked flabbergasted and said to the person he was talking to "can you
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  • 18
    Font - believe some da n people have an issue with me using loud speaker on the train?". This made me realise that some people actually don't seem to understand that no one wants to hear their mundane convo. I just said "I mean we could
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    Font - all be on our would be quite unbearable wouldn't it?" And put my headphones on again. loudspeakers but that Still quite crazy, I mean if everyone did that then it wouldn't be possible to use public transport anymore.
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    Font - wolfie379 +2 14 hr. ago I once read about a guy who was on the phone with his wife while riding a "quiet car" on a commuter train. He was trying to reassure her that he had really been working late at the office, and was now on his way home. A female passenger,
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  • 21
    Font - annoyed at him using his phone in a quiet car, leaned over and in a sultry voice said "Honey, hang up the phone and come back to bed". 452 Reply Share
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    Font - Stylum 20 hr. ago Son of a sausage, definitely using that from now on 87 Reply Share
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