Well, as we say, “it’s all over bar the shouting”, but in my case, maybe it should be “the shouting’s over”.
It has become such a NOISY world; it seems as if people are afraid to be alone with their own silence. Once upon a time we bought devices to plug into ,or over our ears to listen to music ; now we have to buy devices to cover our ears to eliminate the relentless background noise around us every day, everywhere.
As far as I know, “quiet carriages” have not yet got a toehold in Italian railway networks, and I doubt they ever will.
English that grows 