So, you're sitting in the movie theater anticipating the
start of the movie you've been waiting for, for months now. You're sure it's
going to be great because your favorite actor Denzel Washington has the leading
role once again. Then, to your horror that loud, obnoxious, cell-phone-ringing,
scene-predicting guy walks in and you already know your movie is ruined!
Yes, we know it sucks!
But, imagine being on a train for 16 hours with a woman who has been talking on her cell phone non-stop and doesn't know how to use her inside voice.
Well, police escorted Lakeysha Beard off a train in Salem, Oregon last weekend after the lady reportedly refused to stop chatting away on her cell phone since boarding in Oakland, California, 16 hours earlier.
In 2001, a group of people that ride the Amtrak daily asked for a section to be made where talking and noise would be limited. In response Amtrak created the quiet car on their trains.
Passenger Lakeysha Beard chose to sit in one of the quiet cars that day.
When Beard's volume became unbearable, other passengers asked if she would please lower her voice. Beard refused and said she felt "disrespected" by the other passengers.
Eventually, the police were called and Amtrak stopped the train so that the noisy passenger could be escorted off.
Beard has since made Anderson Cooper's "Ridiculist" on CNN.
One passenger even said she should be charged with "unspeakable crimes against humanity and sentenced to life on some distant planet where there are no reception bars, ever."
So, next time you're in that two
and a half hour movie where that annoying guy won't shut up, just be thankful
it isn't a 16 hour train ride to never never land.