Girl on the NetIDEA: extrovert train carriages. Like those ‘chat to me’ benches, but a whole carriage of the train dedicated to people who wanna talk rather than just read a book or listen to music (through headphones, of course) and enjoy the scenery. Introverts can drop their extrovert mates off in those carriages so they have people to chat to, and extroverts will leave us alone to enjoy our quiet time.
follerflausen@girlonthenet In german trains you can select the „silent area“. You could say all other areas of the train are extroverts territory.
Christoph Raitzig@follerflausen @girlonthenet Never encountered those areas, sounds like a great idea. Are they only in ICEs?
Also the announcements "Welcome to our train to..." are way more distracting than useful.
Also the announcements "Welcome to our train to..." are way more distracting than useful.
Andreas D.
naught101@theandi0815 @talinx @follerflausen @girlonthenet
Sydney also has these! Approximately half the carriages. You're allowed to have muted conversations, but not loud convos or music. It works surprisingly well. I use different carriages on different days, depending how I'm feeling.
@talinx @girlonthenet Yeah, ICEs have it. And unfortunately you hear the announcements there, too.