A female passenger riding a Metro-North train out of New York evidently needs help from Miss Manners in using proper eitquette when riding the rails. A fellow passenger posted a video Tuesday on YouTube (link below), captured on a cell phone during this woman's interaction with one of the conductors. The conductor approached the woman and requested that she speak quietly and stop using profanity or move to the vestibule to continue the conversation. The woman responded by saying, "Do you know what schools I've been to?" As the conductor explained what happened to a fellow conductor, the passenger grew increasingly boisterous and intruded on the conversation between the two conductors.
The irate woman asked what profanity she had used, and, if I heard correctly, the conductor mentioned the f-bomb. The woman interrupted, "I'm sorry. Do you think I'm a little hoodlum?" My response would have been, "No, I think you're an extremely rude, self-aborbed woman totally lacking in courtesy!" Unfortunately, I did not have that opportunity. To the conductor's credit, she still spoke in a calm voice when she then infomred the woman she'd be removed from the train, if she didn't return to her seat. The woman loudlyproclaimed she wanted to get off the train and demanded her money back.
The conductors walked away and one said, "Go to customer service." In her loudest voice, the passenger whined, "I am not a crazy person. I am a very well-educated person." After a minute or so, a conductor announced that passengers should please not use profanity on the train, "especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport." In my view, that takes the prize for best part of the story.
This woman might have attended a top-notch university, but she obviously missed the course on politeness. She had the audacity to say that she was having a private conversation when she used the questionable language. Excuse me! Private? When every passenger on that train car was subjected to her loud voice and questionable language, the word private is a misnomer. If she wanted privacy, she should have waited until she was alone to have the conversation. Score one for the train conductors!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8E_tcxIIyQ&feature=player_embedded
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