(SBB/CFF trains) Is it rude to have the Swiss Pass in the ID window of the wallet ?

By ID window I mean the left part of this wallet [https://www.alpineswiss.com/products/alpine-swiss-mens-leather-bifold-wallet-rfid-safe-removable-flip-up-id-window.html](https://www.alpineswiss.com/products/alpine-swiss-mens-leather-bifold-wallet-rfid-safe-removable-flip-up-id-window.html)

I had to google to learn it’s called ID window. In German, the name seems to be “Ausweisfach” or “Ausweissichtfach”, and in French “porte-cartes d’identité” or “fenêtre d’identification”. It’s the transparent card holder place in the wallet where some people might place their driver licence for example to easily show it to someone else.

I usually have the Swiss Pass (the red card that you use for public transports in Switzerland) in the ID window of the wallet. I don’t drive, don’t even have a driver licence, so I use the ID window for the Swiss Pass instead.

Recently, I was in a double level train from Bern to Lausanne, sitting at the two seats compartment along the window after you come up the stairs (you know there is a three seats compartment when you come up the stairs, then this two seat compartment, and then those “sofa” seats with a round table, before the two lines of four-seats compartments start). Behind the three seats compartment in the other direction, there are two four-seats compartments before the door to the next train wagon.

I was sittting in the seat facing toward the main part of the wagon (so NOT the seat facing toward the end of the wagon, where there is the door to the next train wagon). I still don’t exactly know how, but it seems the ticket checker (Kontrolleur/Controlleur) came from the wagon door behind, and started asking people for tickets. So I took my wallet out, ready to let him scan the Swiss Pass. Since they introduced the Swiss Pass some years ago, their electronic scanner can scan the Swiss Pass through the ID window of the wallet.

Because he was coming from behind me, I don’t not know what he exactly did, but suddenly I heard him sigh loudly, and then ask in very agressive tone of voice if I could take it out (“Chöntet sis viellecht usenäh, BITTE ???!!!”). I never heard such an agressive voice in my whole life, I don’t know if he was either angry or very pissed off, but it’s like he had an anger outbursts. So I took the Swiss Pass out and he scanned it, and when he gave it back to me, he said Thank You (“Merci”) with a very mocking and provocating tone, like he was somehow looking to provoke or humiliate me in public. I kept calm the whole time, it all happened in like 15 seconds, I was still taken aback by his reaction. It was an old guy in his sixties, with white hairs and glasses.

I regularly take the train since more than six years, and never experienced something like this. Ticket checkers until now never minded if I kept the Swiss Pass in the ID window of the wallet, they just scan the Swiss Pass through it. I also regularly see other people doing this and never had any issue.

Because of his old age, was he maybe somehow used to holding the GA/AG card like before the Swiss Pass was introduced ? Thinking back, I really don’t understand how somehow could react like this. Did someone here experience someting similar ?

by SBB-CFF-FFS