Message to my fellow Metra commuters

If you want to have a lively, boisterous conversation with your train buddy, then sit right next to them on the train. If you want to blather on with your buddy about the inexorably tedious minutiae of your daily life, then sit right next to them on the train. If you want to tell your buddy about every single delay you experienced last night on the 6:12 train that your buddy didn't experience because they were on the usual 5:25, then sit right next to them on the train. Do not, under any circumstances, sit on opposite sides of the aisle, each of your backs to the wall, as far apart as you can be, and shout back and forth at each other at a decibel level normally reserved for airport ground crews. Especially when I'm sitting right in front of you, trying to concentrate on my reading. Thank you.