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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  grumbles:

>"hi, it's me... no, me, John!... yes, I'm in the train right now...
>huh?  yeah, in the TRAIN...  I'm at Utrecht Central now...  no,
>Utrecht...  yes, will be home in about 10 minutes...  hm? ...  no,
>TEN minutes...  yeah, see ya".  Combine this with the incessant "tsk
>tsk tsk tsk" from a bunch of walkmans, and there's really no fun
>anymore to travelling by train...
>(and then such an idiot asks you to close the window because it makes
>too much noise so he can't understand what the other person is
>saying...  arghhh... &^%$#)
>
>Ah!  Got the solution: if we freeze all the morons with cell-phones
>and walkmans, then... :-)

And they call *me* a grump.

I don't use a phone or a walkman on trains but it does not bother me 
in the least to see people doing something with the time they are 
incarcerated in the tube that they feel better about than staring 
straight on with the expression of  wet gerbils. What *does* bother 
me are the incessant recorded exhortations to cease and desist 
issuing at earbleed levels from the overhead speakers.