Travel etiquette

I travel very much, each time I travel by train I observe that people have seemed to have lost their civic sense these days. Those of you who travel by train will agree, when you enter a A.C. coach in a train it is like a fish market. People talking loud, shouting at the top of their voices. If there is a group or a family traveling then it is much more.

Even people who are traveling alone or others are hooked on to the mobile sets answering or talking loudly. Some of the conversations I have observed goes like this.

“hello, hello! can’t hear you, hello, hello”
“there is no network, I am in train”
“we are on train”
“pick me up at so and so time”
“on train safe”.
“how is every one at home”
“eat well, sleep well”

And most of these conversations go on and on as if there is no tomorrow!!!

I just wonder what people did and managed when there were no mobile sets???

The other annoying factor is the loud music emerging out of mobile hand sets, some people tend to showcase their music to the whole world. They seldom realize there are co-passengers traveling and need to maintain silence.

I am not against mobile use but people need to realize that when they are traveling they need to respect the privacy of other and not think the train is a fish market or their home. This is where we lack civic sense and the social etiquette in society.

In the west for example when I travel by train it is comparatively quiet, people do respond to mobiles but in a low voice, they keep quiet as if it is traveling in a plain. In India luckily while travel by flight it is relatively quite. Thank god passengers are asked to switch off their mobile or even that would have become a fish market.

I only wish:
- Mobile use is ban on trains.
-People learn some civic sense so that they remain quiet or talk softly. when they are traveling with others – respecting others privacy.
-stop being so dependent on the mobile sets.
-Stop listening to loud music on rains.