An autistic woman has been left devastated to discover that “quiet carriage” signs on trains are essentially meaningless, according to reports.
Megan Aldrich, 34, booked a seat in the quiet carriage for her morning commute in the hope of preventing a severe case of sensory overload. However, she quickly learned that “quiet carriage” was just a sort of feeble suggestion train companies like to make, as opposed to an enforceable law.
Aldrich was shortly joined by an amorous couple with impossibly wet-sounding mouths, a baby in the throes of demonic possession and a man shouting into his phone that he was “in the quiet carriage, yeah, I’ll call you back, cos I’m just in the quiet carriage – no, THE QUIET CARRIAGE!”
Aldrich said: “This group of friends got on, and one of them pointed to the signs and said, ‘Ooh, look, it’s a quiet carriage!’, and then they all looked at me and started giggling and shushing each other. As if I were some sort of noise fascist depriving them of the right to turn my precious quiet carriage into a mockery of itself.”
Aldrich reached out to the train company’s customer support team, who recommended she try strapping herself to the chassis for a more comfortable journey next time.
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