Dragon Lady
Posted by: pinkjellybaby on: October 9, 2007
I know beepy phones are annoying…
But i was only writing one text message. It wasn’t very loud keypad beeping and it was nearly at the end of the journey so she KNEW i wouldn’t be doing it the whole way.
However, the gargoyle woman sitting next to me threw me sufficient dirty looks in the space of that one message for me to turn to her and say ‘Is there a problem?’
‘Do you know how to turn that noise off?’ she snorted
‘I do, but you’re being ridiculous. I’m not turning it off’
Perhaps i would have if she’d also asked the girls on her other side to stop talking. Or asked the guy listening to Tina Turner (yes, you heard) full blast to give it a rest.
And i also might have if she hadn’t sat down next to me, taken her shoe off and started putting plasters on her manky feet.
Getting your horrible feet out on a train is a million times worse than a few beeps of a phone.
21 Responses to "Dragon Lady"
October 9, 2007 at 10:49
Agreed – what a monster! Well done you for standing your ground!
October 9, 2007 at 10:52
I can’t stand typing and beeping; and the fact that my phone camera makes a selection of loud noises from the normal “click” to a rather perverted “click maahhhhh” (or something like that) annoys me… but… that’s just me; and I turn off the sounds (except the shutter sound as the powers that be dictate that I have to have a shutter sound – harrumph – annoying when I’m trying to take photos of birds and squirrels who don’t like things going “CLICK Mmmahhhhh” and rarely stick around for further photos…
oh, but I’m slipping off the topic. It’s all personal preference – now if you were in the “SILENT!!!! NO SPEAKING!!!! NO PHONES!!!! NO PERSONAL STEREOS !!!” section (I should invent an impersonal stereo 
) then that’s understandable – but sounds like you weren’t – and like you said, your beeps were one in a mass of noise and annoyance.
I agree with you on the feet though; I mean, I understand – people have issues – they need to take care of things… but you do it discretely
anyway… The polite thing for her to do, regarding the beeps would have been to ask “I’m sorry, that beeping is really irritating to me; would you mind, if you’re going to be doing a lot of that, turning the sound off if you can please” rather than her acting all entitled. I’d be tempted, next time, to up the volume on the beeps and play with your ringtones. 
Catch you later
hugs
X
October 9, 2007 at 11:26
I’d've turned the beeping UP just to annoy her even more. But then you know what I am like. x
October 9, 2007 at 11:30
Hehe! Well that told her – well done PJB! (grumpy commuters should chill out!)
October 9, 2007 at 11:46
I’m partially with you and partially with the grumpy Dragon Woman.
Here’s why. I hate the whole feet thing, you probably read my blog a couple of months ago where I took a photo of that woman with her manky feet on the seats. So I feel for you there.
However, it’s sooo easy for people to just keep their phone on silent or at least not have the beeping thing…I can see why it’s annoying. It’d annoy me. If I’d had a bad day, blisters on my feet and was on the train and someone sat next to me was clicking and beeping away on their phone I’d be like Argh shut up. Noise is unwanted sound. And if I had the balls, I’d ask them to turn it down. Why not? It’s what my blog’s usually all about, the little things that annoy you and by being a bit considerate (including turning music down etc) it avoids the situation altogether. Other people’s mobile phones are just offensively irritating anyway.
October 9, 2007 at 11:55
Eww manky feet hate it. I would have written text messages all the way home just to annoy her.
I hate people like that.
October 9, 2007 at 12:03
Commuter i agree, it’s annoying when someone is sitting there beeping along for the whole journey…. but i do usually make sure i’m on silent if i know i will be getting replies etc.
Pete i was having none of it this morning!
M i wouldn’t have minded if my beeping was the loudest thing that could be heard but it really wasn’t!
Blue i was going to sit and wrote out a long text to you but i was too tired!
Jo as i said to someone else, i do usually have my phone on silent if i know i will be writing or getting a lot of texts, but i was just quickly replying to a friend and it wasn’t even a long message…which is why she annoyed me. Plus, by the time she said something, i’d finished writing it and was putting my phone away!
Rebecca bleugh. me too
October 9, 2007 at 17:50
First of all – feet – EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Secondly; there’s more important things to worry about in life than being so mind-crushingly petty that a bleepy phone (which is very slightly irritating) is annoying you. I mean, for God’s sake; what law says the sound of a phone keypad is more annoying than a daft conversation within 2 feet of you or someone’s body odour or someone (who can’t help it) coughing like it’s their last few minutes on earth.
I mean REALLY – there are so many other more vital things to be worried about why is it so vital to get concerned about the sound of a bleepy phone. Get real.
[tuts loudly, turns off bleep on phone, coughs]
October 10, 2007 at 07:38
oh you so should of told her that she had skanky feet.. lol.
One of my friends phone plays a tune everytime you text. Its really bad. Not just annoying but suisidal. I had to sort it out for her but it was a stupid phone that really didint understand its own settings. Cheap cheap cheap.
Oh i do like writing in pink. But why doesnt it finally show up in this lovely colour..
October 10, 2007 at 08:26
Ian exactly. stupid woman. i’m glad i didn’t see her this morning!
Fabby my phone either plays no tune or some stupid one, which is why i usually have it on silent!
The pink is nice but i think it would be a bit TOO pink if all the comments came up like this!
October 10, 2007 at 10:57
Each person on a train should have available a sound proof booth with a chair and writing desk by default. Anyone wishing to share should be able to choose a communal carriage but this shouldn’t be the norm.
October 10, 2007 at 13:15
cant you turn off the tune?. How anoying for you let alone that stupid rude woman
October 10, 2007 at 13:47
Mr frog would a big cardboard box over my head with egg boxes stuck all over the inside work?
Fab i can, i can have it silent or just vibrating but i can’t just have a ‘beep’ i get ‘tink tonkle twonkle plop’ or soemthing
October 10, 2007 at 14:40
A cardboard box would be a start but everyone would have to wear one and you’d have to have egg boxes on the outside as well or you’d just look silly.
October 11, 2007 at 13:39
Getting your horrible feet out on a train is a million times worse than a few beeps of a phone.
Why yes, yes it is.
October 15, 2007 at 14:34
hahahaha! you should have pointed the phone in her face and pressed the buttons slowly and deliberately
I have to admit though I do find phones annoying. Theres always ONE person in the office that doesn’t have it on vibrate. We always take it and put it in her draw
Why are phones more annoying than walkmans? Something to do with that comedy scetch ‘Can’t talk now I’M IN THE LIBRARY!’
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October 9, 2007 at 10:35
There is something about the beeping keypad that just drives us commuters absolutely nuts. I’m sorry, but I’m with the glaring lady here, beepy keypads should be turned off (or, better still, not even be an option on phones). Loud Tina Turner would get a muttering and possibly a pointed look or 10, loud talking only merits a sigh and pointed glances. Feet on the seats should, along with beepy key pads, be punishable by death.