Amtrak sent a tweet Friday winking at a recent incident in which notorious loud-talking New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) got booted from the train’s quiet car on a New York-bound train for speaking too loudly.
Retweet if you still love riding/working/sleeping in the now #Twitter famous #QCar. pic.twitter.com/DYfKkSVPql
— Amtrak (@Amtrak) October 30, 2015
Christie was asked to leave the quiet car, which prohibits cell phone use and loud noise of any kind, for carrying on animated phone conversations that disturbed other patrons.
Amtrak’s social media team weren’t the only people amused by the incident. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) gave the New Jersey governor some unsolicited advice on Twitter on Monday, telling him to “keep quiet in quiet car.” He also knocked Christie—who was reportedly drinking a McDonald’s strawberry smoothie at the time of the incident—for his beverage choice. Rangel advised Christie to stick with “real fruit.”
Unlike @GovChristie I keep quiet in quiet car & blend my own smoothie w/ real fruit (tho it 2 may not go smoothly) pic.twitter.com/lrKy0bdplr
— Charles Rangel (@cbrangel) October 26, 2015
