No talking on the jitney!!

They usually make that announcement on the jitney, do they not?

Were you on the fancy one with the leather captain's chairs? I love that one.

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You spent 4 hours on a bus? Just how large is the Hamptons?

I understand that I guess, but it's still annoying :)

And Bluemoon, I'm all the way down at the end in Amagansett, so it took quite a while!

A little too quiet for my tastes. Good for a short time, but I like the city life much better!

I think as an alternative to the "no talking" rule, they should offer earplugs to all those who want a quiet trip, and everyone else can be as loud as they want. (well, within reason, but they can talk on cell phones for sure!)

I love the Jitney, but another option is the train. It is cheaper and faster and you can talk.
My only pet peeve with the Jitney, I took my Father's dog (a few years ago) on the Jitney and they charged me over $20 for Rags. How ridiculous is that! I sat next to Andre Bishop, which was such a thrill!

Updated On: 7/29/05 at 12:56 PM

There is only a train at 3pm and at 11pm, so I had to take the bus to go in between those times. Normally I do take the train. And I was trying to finalize plans with people that I hadn't seen in at least a month since I was out of town, hence wanting to be on the phone.

This is why text messaging absolutely rocks. Get it. It's such a cheap addition to your monthly plan. I pay $5 a month and get unlimited text messaging (last month, I sent/received over 600 texts and didn't waste a minute of my airtime).

As for the rule, it's just a courtesy rule. I discover I'm often called on the buses in Manhattan and I whisper my way through the conversations because, while it's acceptable to be a loud-mouth B*tch when you're talking TO someone on the bus, it's not allowed to do so on a phone.

I love txting, but sometimes with lovely Verizon it can take up to a day or 2 for txt msgs to be delivered.

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No cell phones on any public transportation. Ever. Use text if necessary. If you friends don't have text, well, pretend you live in the 80s when we survived without cell phones. Last weekend, Jarico and I were taking the El from Evanston to Chicago and SEVEN people were talking on their cell phones simultaneously in our car alone. All of them trying to talk over each other. The sound was deafening. I pointed and counted each one making it very clear that it was unacceptable and all but three of them ended their calls immediately. When we rode the Metra, there was an Italian guy who talked loudly on his cell for the entire 1.5 hour ride and it drove us crazy. Wednesday night on the sidewalk, this girl walked by us and literally screamed "I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT IT ANY MORE!!!" into her cell phone. I'm sorry, but I'm beginning to think cell phones should be outlawed altogether. We survived without them not too long ago and we can do it again. I own a cell phone and use maybe 30 minutes per month. It's not that tough.

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Good for them. I think public cell phone use is getting way out of hand. It is going to bring down the civilization.

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We might need a whole new thread about this: The most inappropriate Cell Phone call you have had to overhear.

I once heard a woman on the El going over a subordinant's Perfromance review. "Elaine, I think you really dropped the ball on the Henderson account. It was an embarassment to the whole office when Tyler Ashman had to call me and tell me that you were 45 minute late for a meeting....I really can't see an increase for you this year. You are making $47,000 and I think that is more than generous." HONEST TO GOD!

I can't tell if it was worse to overhear the details of a miscarriage on the Metra train on the way up the northshore one day.

I once interviewed for a job (with what later turned out to be a boss from hell) and she interviewed me on her cell phone WHILE SHE WAS DRIVING. Later I found out that a co-worker had been in the car with her and had listened to the entire call. Horrible!