Re: Does anyone want to hear the latest LIRR story?

OMG that is why I am soooo glad I do not ride the LIRR anymore, I had some doozies on my trains to and from Ronkonkoma

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Posted by Blu-ize

Posted by LadyLainez

Posted by LIBOUND

Posted by Blu-ize

Posted by LadyLainez

They need to have pamphlets to hand out to everyone about train etiquette.

I agree with this but the rep I spoke to says they are not doing that. I think I will write a letter to Newsday..I'll let you know if I get any feedback..

Let's start the pamphlet:

1. Please keep your mouth SHUT if you board the train before 7am. People are trying to get their sleep on!!!

2. If you don't take up two seats..you don't need one for your lunch bag, shoppings bags or briefcase.

3. If you are listening to your IPOD turn the volume down before you are deaf. Others around you can hear your pathetic taste in music.

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4. The empty seat next to you is not a snack table. Do not rest your drinks, pizza and hot food on it and don't leave your food trash there either. Someone else's a$$ needs to go there on the next trip. Also - NO ONE appreciates that bottle rolling around under the seats. Take it with you when you leave the train!!



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Posted by dpli

Posted by Blu-ize

Posted by LadyLainez

Posted by LIBOUND

Posted by Blu-ize

Posted by LadyLainez

They need to have pamphlets to hand out to everyone about train etiquette.

I agree with this but the rep I spoke to says they are not doing that. I think I will write a letter to Newsday..I'll let you know if I get any feedback..

Let's start the pamphlet:

1. Please keep your mouth SHUT if you board the train before 7am. People are trying to get their sleep on!!!

2. If you don't take up two seats..you don't need one for your lunch bag, shoppings bags or briefcase.

3. If you are listening to your IPOD turn the volume down before you are deaf. Others around you can hear your pathetic taste in music.

4. The empty seat next to you is not a snack table. Do not rest your drinks, pizza and hot food on it and don't leave your food trash there either. Someone else's a$$ needs to go there on the next trip. Also - NO ONE appreciates that bottle rolling around under the seats. Take it with you when you leave the train!!

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5. There are NO ASSIGNED SEATS on ANY LIRR train. If your friend, train buddy, or snack provider is late, then tough nuggies. I get the seat if I'm there first.



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I understand perfectly and you should definately complain if the conductor witnessed what happened and didn't do anything.

I would have said something too. actually I have been in situations similar to that on the bus and have said something. but, I don't back down until they stop.

Re: Does anyone want to hear the latest LIRR story?

Posted by LIBOUND

Posted by dpli

Posted by Blu-ize

Posted by LadyLainez

Posted by LIBOUND

Posted by Blu-ize

Posted by LadyLainez

They need to have pamphlets to hand out to everyone about train etiquette.

I agree with this but the rep I spoke to says they are not doing that. I think I will write a letter to Newsday..I'll let you know if I get any feedback..

Let's start the pamphlet:

1. Please keep your mouth SHUT if you board the train before 7am. People are trying to get their sleep on!!!

2. If you don't take up two seats..you don't need one for your lunch bag, shoppings bags or briefcase.

3. If you are listening to your IPOD turn the volume down before you are deaf. Others around you can hear your pathetic taste in music.

4. The empty seat next to you is not a snack table. Do not rest your drinks, pizza and hot food on it and don't leave your food trash there either. Someone else's a$$ needs to go there on the next trip. Also - NO ONE appreciates that bottle rolling around under the seats. Take it with you when you leave the train!!

5. There are NO ASSIGNED SEATS on ANY LIRR train. If your friend, train buddy, or snack provider is late, then tough nuggies. I get the seat if I'm there first.

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Funny, there was a whole article about this today in Newsday....Article

A small sampling of passengers says loud cell phone talk and garbage on seats are most annoying things

BY SAMUEL BRUCHEY
Newsday Staff Writer

May 31, 2006

In what has become her personal commuting nightmare, every time Alison Forte boards the Long Island Rail Road after work, she seems to encounter the same man.

Hunched over his laptop, a cell phone jammed to his ear, he always does business on the train. And he does it loudly.

It doesn't matter if Forte takes the 6:13 p.m. from Penn Station or the 6:39 p.m.; whether she rides the first car or the last. She hears his voice before she even finds a seat, talking about numbers, about profits and revenue, impervious to the narrowed eyes around him.

"Half the ride is over by the time he hangs up," said Forte, 26, who works for a health insurance company and lives in Long Beach. "Some people just don't care who's around them."

To say the least.

As the Long Island Rail Road Commuter's Council embarks this week on a two-month campaign to identify the most ill-mannered habits, Newsday conducted its own informal study, asking about two dozen LIRR riders what annoys them most about their fellow commuters.

With stray coffee cups, abandoned newspapers and limbs that dangle into the center aisle, everyone had a pet peeve.

But, without question, the reigning king of commuter offenses is cell phone abuse.

"Not everyone wants to hear your personal business," said Dan Dillon, 61, a tax attorney from Lido Beach, who said vulgar phone banter has become the norm.

"They might as well be sitting on a toilet, they've got such toilet mouths," said Dillon, an occasional LIRR rider.

There's no point in approaching such offenders, said Sonny Zaleski of Long Beach.

"If you say something, they get overly offended," said Zaleski, 55, last week from his seat on board the 8:38 a.m. train to Penn Station.

Bad behavior has become such a problem for some passengers that one railway -- Amtrak -- has designated quiet cars on some of its lines nationwide. In these specified cars, passengers are asked to refrain from using cell phones and pagers or from engaging in loud conversation.

Meanwhile, the LIRR commuter council will conduct a survey, riding different trains and hoping to observe as many of the railroad's nearly 100,000 daily riders as possible. It will then present its findings to LIRR officials and plan an advertising campaign exhorting riders to be courteous. The railroad already makes such announcements on its trains.

But Dave Malik, 34, of Holtsville, said he doubted that the announcements or an advertising campaign on the LIRR will make a dent in bad commuter behavior.

"People consider their commute downtime and they use it to make plans or chat," Malik said. "You're not going to change that."

That's why Forte said she comes armed with a book, a tactic she confessed works most of the time.

Edward Shim, 29, of Manhattan said blocking out the behavior offenders takes a state of mind, one he has perfected after years of riding New York City subways.

"My philosophy is not to be bothered by too many things," said Shim as he waited for a train in Farmingdale after visiting his parents in Deer Park. "These trains? They're fine. It's the subway that will drive you crazy if you let it."
Copyright 2006 Newsday Inc.

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The one good thing about Metro North is they make announcements about cell phone use, ipods, packages on the seats, etc. Also, if you ask, the conductor will either make another announcement or will tell the loud cell phone talker to lower their voice or walk to the vestibule and talk. Most people will shut up or move into the vestibule if you say something to them. Sorry those LIR guys were such a$$holes.

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LIRR makes announcements about the clean train campaign and cell phone talkers..etc..but what they should say is if you are disturbing others on the train you will be asked to refrain from using your cell phone or IPOD.

I don't know about any of you guys but I don't want the whole train knowing anything personal about me or my work. Who knows who is listening.

I've had coversations with my husband, mother, frined, but keep them short and very low.

If I see that I'm disturbing someone, I immediately stop.

I have manners..consideration for others and my empty popcorn bag is thrown away when I get off the train.

People need to do a reality check, there are other people in the world.

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I've ridden all those trains and I think I know who that girl is talking about. Then again, there are numerous "offenders"

I can't take the cell phones and the seat saving. I'm nine months pregnant and last week I had to stand tfrom Penn to Jamaica. Not one person offered me a seat.

Honestly, I miss driving to work - took the same amount of time and I didn't have to deal with some of these people - although I hear some pretty interesting stuff!

Message edited 6/2/2006 7:12:39 PM.

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Posted by baghag

I have a commuter story too. I was on the R train this morning, and was in the two seater that has another two attached to the back. Lady #1 was sitting at my back who had her bag on the seat next to her. It was getting crowded, and someone (lets call her #2) came along and asked her to please move her bag so they could sit down. She didn't want to, and got SCREAMED at by #2, "You aren't entitled to two seats! You can get a ticket! I'm gonna call the cops!" Since #1 didn't move her bag, #2 sat there anyway, and squashed whatever was in it. #2 gets off at her stop.

#1 moves her smashed bag back to the seat next to her. Another person, #3, comes along and wants to sit there. #1 REFUSES to move her bag. So #3 picks it up and flings it across the train. I would have done the same.

Funniest damn commute in a while.