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    I've become a "Quiet Car Nazi"!

    posted Wednesday, 15 December 2004
    It's taken me less than one month as a full-time commuter to learn to really appreciate the "Quiet Car" on the Öresund region trains...so much so that I'm genuinely disappointed if I can't get a seat in one. (The smaller commuter trains don't have them.)

    Tonight my newfound dedication to the sanctity of the quiet car led me to shush some people for talking. Okay, I didn't actually "shush" them (which is what a typical Swede would do), I just politely explained that they were in the quiet car and if they wanted to talk there were other cars on the train where they could do that. (All in Swedish, of course.) They were very apologetic (it's easy to end up in the quiet car without realizing it) and they decided to move to a different car. And since it was well after the rush hour there were plenty of other seats, so I didn't feel the least bit guilty about it!

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    1. a reader left...
    Wednesday, 15 December 2004 10:48 pm

    I wish there was a quiet seat on my bicycle on the way to school. The only seat on my bike has a lady on it who coughs and hacks and sneezes the WHOLE way.

    geena


    2. Pimme left...
    Wednesday, 15 December 2004 10:58 pm

    Is there any signage on the "quiet car" to indicate that's what it is?

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    3. Shazzer left...
    Thursday, 16 December 2004 8:12 am

    Yes, there is signage...but it's quite small and easily missed, especially since the Quiet cars are often in the same position on the train as a First Class car, and *those* are always CLEARLY marked. I think people look for the First Class sign (as you must have a First Class ticket to sit there) and when there's no big First Class sign, they don't bother reading the smaller one that is actually there.