The Quiet Car is the greatest invention of mankind.

When I have not managed to get on a Quiet Car, I have had to endure:

- a college student shopping for pot (meaning she was calling various dealers and comparing prices)
- a 20-something girl calling everyone on her contacts list, in succession, and telling whoever answered, "I AM SO BORED"
- several fights with wives (women, it seems, are too private to fight with their husbands in public)