Mobile use when using public transport

meanmachine3

to anyone that yaks on their mobiles when boarding public transport especially buses can you please have the courtesy and decency to put it down when either dealing with the driver or fiddling for your ticket. lately it's getting beyond a joke. the amount of passengers over the last number of days i've had to ask passengers to put their mobile away and get their tickets/fares out as they're delaying everyone plus it's damn right ignorant and rude. alot of drivers are getting fed up with it at this stage. also if the bus does happen to pull away from the stop and you've got you mobile in one hand and the ticket in another what the hell is going to save you if something happens. you cannot expect the hold you mobile in one hand and fiddle for your ticket in your wallet or purse with the other. on the other hand we can sit at the stop for 5 minues while you finish you conversation.
now for those of you yakking while making your journey, please turn down the volume. i dont want to hear what you had for breakfast and i dont think the person sitting beside you or the whole bus for that matter wants to know who you shagged last night.
i know with certain parts of the civil service, if you go up to a hatch using a mobile your told to take a new ticket and wait from scratch.
the reason for the rant is. one day recently i spent over 5 minutes at a stop waiting for a passenger who was yakking on their mobile to get their ticket, in the end i had to tell the passenger to hang up and get their ticket out.
if passengers are talking loudly it's nearly impossible to hear whats going on upstairs if something goes bad.
we dont mind you using mobiles after you've made your proper transaction and when it's not interfering with other passengers.
please think of others and dont be a selfish git.
the mean.

Gumbo

meanmachine3 wrote: »

to anyone that yaks on their mobiles when boarding public transport especially buses can you please have the courtesy and decency to put it down when either dealing with the driver or fiddling for your ticket. lately it's getting beyond a joke. the amount of passengers over the last number of days i've had to ask passengers to put their mobile away and get their tickets/fares out as they're delaying everyone plus it's damn right ignorant and rude.

alot of drivers are getting fed up with it at this stage. also if the bus does happen to pull away from the stop and you've got you mobile in one hand and the ticket in another what the hell is going to save you if something happens. you cannot expect the hold you mobile in one hand and fiddle for your ticket in your wallet or purse with the other. on the other hand we can sit at the stop for 5 minues while you finish you conversation.

now for those of you yakking while making your journey, please turn down the volume. i dont want to hear what you had for breakfast and i dont think the person sitting beside you or the whole bus for that matter wants to know who you shagged last night.
i know with certain parts of the civil service, if you go up to a hatch using a mobile your told to take a new ticket and wait from scratch.

the reason for the rant is. one day recently i spent over 5 minutes at a stop waiting for a passenger who was yakking on their mobile to get their ticket, in the end i had to tell the passenger to hang up and get their ticket out.
if passengers are talking loudly it's nearly impossible to hear whats going on upstairs if something goes bad.

we dont mind you using mobiles after you've made your proper transaction and when it's not interfering with other passengers.
please think of others and dont be a selfish git.
the mean.

In the Post Office or City Council offices, if your on the phone when you come to the hatch your told to hang up, if they dont then there told to leave the counter and rejoin the que when there finished.

i dont mind somebody on the phone but as you its down righ ignorant when your trying to serve them and they keep on chatting away.

Cookie_Monster

I could ask the same of some drivers!

I'd always put aside the phone while dealing with someone, it's just plain rude not too. If you have the fare ready it won't cost you more than 5-10 seconds anyway.

Nodster

T'is rude alright!

What gets my goat up is some baboon setting their flippin ring tones on their new phones when I'm commuting on the choo choo from the City to Balbriggan, happened recently and said baboon was lucky his new purchase didn't end up in a field of spuds!!

(no baboons were hurt or killed during that particular commute!)