People who Talk on the Phone Really Loud on the LIRR

Just be glad you can understand them, that's the good part of the LIRR. If you overhear any conversations on the subway, 99% of them are in some foreign language so you not only have to deal with loud voices, but you can't even follow what they're talking about.

This seems to be a rather parochial subject OP.

You do know where you are?

If you don't like being around people from other countries why in the fuck would you live in NY r1?

I would certainly have preferred to not understand what I heard.

OP, I'm from Lawn Gile Und (Hicksville. Me and Billy Joel went to the same elementary school). Don't leave me guessing. Tell us everything! It may involve my classmates from Fork Lane Elementary, Holy Family Catholic School, and Hicksville Junior High! C'mann...

OMG. Don't get me started on this shit! And OP, it's not just the LIRR. It's EVERYWHERE. There's a guy that talks on his phone with his airbuds in at the gym the entire time he works out. The ENTIRE TIME. Who the FUCK is on the other end of that call I wonder? He can be heard even if you're at the opposite end of the gym floor. SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Too bad there isn’t a quiet car like on Amtrak.

I was once almost a party to a discussion between a guy (sitting behind me on the bus) and someone to whom the responsibility fell for ordering the pizza that night and it was a real rouser. Probably happened 20 years ago and it is never to be forgotten.

The scene where they figured out the question of half mushrooms or full mushrooms alone could’ve become Spielberg’s next movie, not to mention the cheese.

I was dead tired and aching to go home but as the moronic discussion went on — FOREVER, bus stop after bus stop — the energy began to build in me until I felt ready to slug the guy, grab his phone, and scream DOUBLE PEPPERONI WITH EXTRA CHEESE, YOU FUCKING IDIOT!

But I didn’t and I’ll always regret it.

I remember overhearing a conversation on Amtrak about Sara Michelle Geller being such a bitch, they couldn't get people (staff) to work with her. The woman was begging someone to join the movie she was working on.

Get used to it. You think you have any privacy anymore? With a cellphone?

What really grinds on my nerves is when people put their cell phone on speaker phone mode, and walk around holding the phone away from their face yapping away like they're having some impromptu conference call. I want to smack the phone out of their hand, then proceed to smack them too.

OP, you already know Long Island is basically trash, white trash. What do you expect?

I once heard a young lady discussing her abortion with her boyfriend on her cell on the LIRR. "Look, it's not just me, you had a hand in this too!" Which struck me as an accurate statement but really have you no sense of what is or is not appropriate to discuss publicly.

After Obama was elected the first time two guys behind me on the train were discussing his backgroundb(in their Long Guyland accent). Because he was mixed race they said "He's a freak of nature." As a mixed race guy I didn't know what to think except "Are white people really still that stupid?"

And don't get me started on Great Neck.

A form of aggression and a need for attention. "Everyone see how important I am? I get phone calls!!"

I always use the speaker phone. I don't like to put the phone o the side of my head. But i work from home and am a near recluse.

Went to Tokyo for vacation a few years ago. One of the most amazing things about it was NO ONE talks on the train. You can mess around on your phone or listen to music with headphones, but there is absolutely no jibber jabbering. You don't even talk to your friend sitting next to you.

It felt so polite and civilized.

The other train-related culture point that fascinated me? Men in suits sitting on the train with a card on a string around their necks with an address on it. I asked the concierge at our hotel what that was about, and he very sheepishly told us they are drunk salarymen. The card is so other passengers know where they need to get off the train, wake them up and send them on their way. Very kind, actually.

But no talking!

When cell phones were still a new thing, back in the dark ages, I worked as a clerk in a store and a woman was being berated by her male partner (it maybe her boss?) the entire time I was checking her out.

The entire store was made uncomfortable by overhearing his shouting (couldn't make out what he was shouting about exactly) and her stammering.

It’s my theory that Covid has been largely spread by loud talkers.

R7 I was in a Virgin quiet car in England. When I opened my briefcase to pull out postcards people stared at me with disdain because the ZIPPERS made too much noise. It's not the first time I've been the object of that shit. I actually got up and left to sit in another car. But JESUS CHRIST! ZIPPERS!

As a fan of the Speaker R2, I was hoping I was posting somewhere with a lot of New York elder gays one of whom might be able to figure out how to shut that conversation down before any more tea was spilled in ear shot of the rest of the ridership. Which I think *might* have actually happened as about five minutes after I posted she got quieter. Anyway if someone did thank you. Zemen, R19 were any of your classmates from the DR? If not, probably not. (And no that isn’t the one whose job is in jeopardy.)

R18 = Jerry Seinfeld

Wambus, I am from that white trash "Long Island Medium" suburban pit as well. However, I moved to a different continent and never tell a fuckin' soul.

Hicksville was a great place to grow up. My family moved away when I was 13. Elderlez, what's DR? I have to zonk because I'm starting to feel like Mia towards the end of the Rosemary shoot. I'm expecting Frank to serve me wiv divorce papers. Can you believe giving someone dirty looks because the zippers on their briefcase are too loud?

Wampus. Try being a gay teen in that bastion of class and good breeding. And a minority to boot.

Of course, Dataloungers don't take the LIRR. They travel between the Hamptons and Manhattan by helicopter.

I once knew two people from Shirley, Long Island. They were two to the trashiest people I have ever known. Just unbelievably trashy.

Two OF the trashiest people

What about Great Neck, R13? If I have to carry in godawful memory my story about the woman who had a yeast infection whose conversation really made one of my commutes, you can delve into your Great Neck horrors for us all.

I guess I'm old fashioned but I took the commute time on the train to-and-from work as "me time" to either gear up or wind down from the office. I'm glad that cell/internet service is spotty on the Tube/subway so that lets me disconnect for a bit every day (that is, when I'm not working remotely).

On the Hampton Jitney you are limited to one 3 minute call, but are asked not to talk on the phone at all. And mostly, nobody talks on the phone. If a phone rings, everybody jumps because it’s so quiet on the bus it’s like having your ears molested.

Most people text, if they must move at all.

[quote] Hicksville was a great place to grow up

I remember when the broadway diner was surrounded by woods. Now I don’t think I could find it if I drove right past it. The place is cluttered with sprawl.

[quote] I once knew two people from Shirley, Long Island

Shirley used to be a lot of Italian trash from South Ozone Park and Howard Beach, But it wasn’t dangerous. Now it’s very heavy with illegal immigrants. Lots of robberies & stabbings.

OP, doesn't the LIRR have Quiet Cars to avoid the loudmouths?

I remember when smoking was practically required on LIRR. They didn’t have non-smoking cars. There were stomped out, smelly stogies all over the floors that looked (and smelled) like turds floating atop a lake of cigarette stubs. Don’t even start with what the bar car was like.

Lots of commuters played poker on the trains, male & female. Degenerate gamblers always find each other.

R29 I’m dreading the completion of the project to provide cellphone reception to the entirety of the tube. I’ve taken to wearing noise cancelling headphones the entire time. The inane cellphone chatter on the overground sections is bad enough.

R33, yes but I’d have to walk backwards and forwards 12 cars each time I get on and off the train because it is only the most westward car. And I am obviously a lazy whore that I don’t want to do that. (I also think the program might be temporarily suspended post-COVID.)

That said as annoying as I find loud train phone talkers in general, the issue in this case was the sensitive, confidential HR information of one of the three most powerful politicians in the NYS government being disclosed. If it had been Skelos (thankfully gone!) I would have repeated it word for word for my fellow Loungers. But Speaker Stewart-Cousins is a stand-up dame and I feel somewhat protective of her. And who knows what Republican might have been recording the conversation.

DR = Dominican Republic

[quote]If you overhear any conversations on the subway, 99% of them are in some foreign language so you not only have to deal with loud voices, but you can't even follow what they're talking about.

Stay out of nail salons.