Finnish Trains have a Naughty Box for people who speak on the phone in the quiet carriage

    by mrcchapman

    50 Comments

    1. Happy_Little_Fish on

      we lost something as a society when we stopped putting people in the stocks and throwing old rubbish at them.

    2. Interesting. Unfortunately, when I heard “naughty box”, I thought something else completely😂

    3. What about this is naughty? This just looks like a private booth to take phone calls without disturbing the other passengers

    4. Dapper_Ad_8402 on

      tbh i think this is brilliant for people who need to take a phone call in public. privacy and silence for everyone!

    5. ClacksInTheSky on

      This doesn’t look like a “naughty box”. It looks like somewhere to go to answer the phone so you don’t disrupt the carriage.

    6. Just looks like a privacy booth and not a “naughty box”, lots of offices and public spaces have things like this

    7. idkmyusernameagain on

      While I’ve never taken phone calls in indoor public spaces aside from a quick emergency, I suppose I’ll start if I get a free upgrade to a private boxed seat.

    8. NothingEffective5070 on

      That was not where I thought you were going with the term “naughty box”.

    9. I’d say that’s just an ordinary phone booth but the door is see-thru so it can’t serve its primary purpose: giving Superman a place to change.

    10. Hmmm so this must be why I just read on the news that Finland is the happiest country for the 9th time in a row.

    11. Spare_Advertising106 on

      Meanwhile on the work shuttle H1-B be yelling into the mic sitting next to you. Sometimes they be talking to their family on speaker phone. No awareness.

    12. It’s the ‘naughty box’ because sometimes the offender will be pushed into it by the rest of the passengers. Oftentimes someone will also badly fart into the box as the door is being closed. And of course the crowd leans against the door to prevent it being opened for ~5 minutes.

    13. FrenchCroutonn on

      A naughty box in the US would probably used for something completely different

    14. the ‘naughty box’ framing had me expecting a tiny timeout corner. turns out finland just built a sensible phone booth and someone wrote a fun sign. finland won again

    15. I am Finnish and use these trains often, the claim made by OP is total bs, its simply a private booth to make a call in

    16. MidnightSun77 on

      I’ve seen something similar in the hallways of a few companies. It even has a little desk and raised seating. It’s mainly to avoid annoying colleagues while talking to customers

    17. Too many people these days using their phone on speaker to make calls like they don’t know that it can be placed to your ear and have a more private conversation.

    18. these exist yet there’s still morons who talk loudly on the phone for the entire 1-2h+ train ride.

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