| ▲ | neom 13 hours ago |
| From my experience, (outside of the quiet car), "extremely rude" - only South Korea and Japan? |
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| ▲ | left-struck 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Having lived in both Australia and Japan and visited SK, for me it seems like it’s rude in all those places but only in some places do almost all the people care what strangers think enough to modify their behaviour. Which is not as judgmental a statement as it sounds like, because that care, or some might call it pressure to conform, has upsides and downsides. |
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| ▲ | neom 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, to clarify my comment, I think it's rude everywhere and I suspect many others generally also, but I've only experienced feeling I couldn't do it/people will absolutely stop you in SK/JP. I've been on trains all through Europe, the UK, almost all of North America and usually hear someone on the phone, but nobody ever says anything. |
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| ▲ | dspillett 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| UK, unless you are quiet about it. Though you might not notice as our reaction only tends to be in body language, or for particularly loud speakers (particularly those who are GOING INTO A TUNNEL or otherwise think shouting will help with bad reception) we might tut. |
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| ▲ | boelboel 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's considered rude in Belgium, at least when I commuted there by train. People would leave the wagon to take a call. Maybe it's changed in the past few years. There were also signs that it's prohibited to call in the trains. |
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| ▲ | margalabargala 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Leave the wagon to where? Like get off the train? The trains are all wagon, no? | | |
| ▲ | NicuCalcea 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There's usually some space between train coaches (I think it's called a gangway?) or at the end of a coach (a vestibule) that is separated from the seats area by doors on both sides. You can take your call there. | | |
| ▲ | margalabargala 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Gotcha. On the trains I'm used to (Amtrak, NYC subway) spaces between cars are either nonexistent, or extremely dangerous. | | |
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| ▲ | boelboel 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Leave the department*, the parts where people get on/off trains are closed off from the seats. There's also some gangway connections which have doors between the wagons. |
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| ▲ | ausbah 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| i’m in the US, if you took a call for more than a few mins a busy metro car I’d tell you to knock it off |
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| ▲ | qbit42 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | People talk on the phone all the time on every US metro I’ve tried. Seems fine if they’re not on speaker or raising their voice | |
| ▲ | serf 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | My dad speaks loudly on speakerphone phones in restaurants and public spaces daily because he's a rude old asshole. No one beside myself has ever told him to stop because I think being old gives one a bit of a 'get out of jail free card ' with regard to social behaviors. I would love for you or someone like you to happen upon him and tell him to knock it off, but alas that seems fleetingly rare. | | | |
| ▲ | nikole9696 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Unfortunately, these days, most of us won't do that because there is a high likelihood it could incite violence. | | |
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