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What is the oddest argument you have ever overheard...

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HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 13/12/2018 18:46

My neighbours have been arguing VERY loudly for the past 20 minutes. It's a very cross angry shouting back and forward slamming doors type argument. The source of this row is that he is using the spring tea towels not the winter ones. Shock.

I genuinely didn't know firstly that seasonal tea towels were a thing and secondly that it could cause such a lot of fuss!

Please tell me, the neighbours I considered normal, are not having the oddest argument in the history of the world and that you have heard stranger quarrels than this!

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 13/12/2018 23:15

Well actually,
Monday is dark blue
Tuesday is a kind of sickly pale green
Wednesday is grey black
Thursday is orange
Friday is yellow
Saturday a sort of very clear white
Sunday is blueish
and has been since I can remember

Namechange170518 · 13/12/2018 23:20

What are you lot on about? How does a day of the week have a colour?

wanderings · 13/12/2018 23:21

When I was at primary school, I remember hearing a teacher saying to a pupil "...and then you can come back and call me dunce." She said this with great dignity.

frasersmummy · 13/12/2018 23:31

I was on the school run waiting in the catrpark when my Bluetooth speaker kicked in and a guy was saying just FN talk to me...I got the fright of my life..however he went on a rant about how she was being ridiculous and doing the School run wasn't hard he did his share etc...hello hello ..do you hear me speaking to you..fine take the huff ..hangs up..
Moral of the story if you're gonna argue on hands free make sure it's your own Bluetooth device you're connected to

415wakeup · 13/12/2018 23:34

I regularly have one with DH about the antique teddy bear in the corner of our bedroom. He covers the bear's face when he goes to bed so that he isn't looking at him while he's asleep, and then I uncover the bear's face when I go to bed, because he wouldn't be able to breathe otherwise Hmm
Also, Tuesday is a sort of mustardy colour...

RunSweatLaughAndLatte · 13/12/2018 23:35

My partner and I had a blazing row about the new cafetière once

NatashaRomanov · 14/12/2018 07:00

Tuesday is blue. Just a boring, mid-blue.
Wednesday is green.
Thursday is light grey.
Friday is red.
Saturday and Sunday are multicoloured, until Sunday evening. That is murky brown.
Monday is dark grey.

I have never thought about that before, but when I read the Tuesday colour argument, I suddenly thought, 'not it's not, it is blue'.

I don't think I have ever heard a silly argument. I have probably had some ridiculous ones with my daughter, but she is a child, so that doesn't count!

charis · 14/12/2018 07:38

Tuesday is definitely yellow. I have a theory that it isn't synaesthesia, it's just the colours all our first teachers used to write the days of the week in. Or from Rainbow Packs if anyone remembers them (seventies)

XH and I once had a raging argument about whether Dad's bedroom carpet was pink or purple. He was seething so much he started Angry Driving and it continued until we got home and I won by googling various paint charts. I was thinking of citing it as an example of unreasonable behaviour when I divorced him.

Velvetbee · 14/12/2018 07:54

DD overheard this in Sainsbury’s and reported back;

Elderly woman to elderly man: She’s moving in on Thursday...Yes she is. Please don’t say anything...you always say the wrong thing.

Bloke didn’t say a word but his face was a picture.

SavageBeauty73 · 14/12/2018 07:58

My identical twins had a punch up over organ donation. One was arguing that if he needed a new kidney, his twin should give it to him as it's a legal right. The other one said it wasn't a given and depends if he still liked him. It went on for a while and got very heated. They were 13 😂

SavageBeauty73 · 14/12/2018 08:02

They've also had a huge row about being each other's best man when they get married. That ended in harsh words . Again they are 13 and neither has had a girlfriend yet 🤷‍♀️ They really do argue over silly things.

IJustLostTheGame · 14/12/2018 08:03

Wednesday is orange

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 14/12/2018 08:07

Tuesday is pale blue Xmas Smile

walrustusk · 14/12/2018 08:18

Monday is blue, Tuesday is orangey-red, Wednesday is bright yellow, Thursday is a dark red and Friday is definitely green! Not sure about sat and sun

longwayoff · 14/12/2018 08:28

Not an argument but overheard on bus. "Of course, what a lot of people don't know is that a Mynah bird has to sleep in a paper bag". ???? I didn't ask. I wish I had.

MistletoeMagnet · 14/12/2018 08:44

DW and I had a row about whether childbirth was easier than rock climbing

More comparable to spelunking surely? Cheese Press level of difficulty -a human being being stuck in your crack bitter,me? nah, just a ventouse badge holder

brainstormer123 · 14/12/2018 08:52

Blazing row with my mum because I put a sprinkling of garlic in our corn beef hash to flavour it up abit. She didn't think it should be in, I still think it should.

Deathraystare · 14/12/2018 08:55

Actually tempted to start a thread about what colour is Tuesday 🤔

I believe it is grey. Well it is certainly NOT red! Not a red day at all.

Deathraystare · 14/12/2018 08:57

Dammit, who are all these mad people that think Tuesday is orange????

Burlea · 14/12/2018 09:08

I own up to falling out with DH I was pregnant and craved hot dog sausage, he went to the local shop and they had ran out. This was over 30 years ago so no other shop in the small town was open. I remembered that there would be a burger van open outside the night club where we met.
He wouldn't take me, by this time I was in a complete strop even when he told me that it's 35 miles away.
After that he bought 10 tins. 2 days later I had the baby early and have never touched another can't stand them.

ClashCityRocker · 14/12/2018 09:13

Monday is definitely yellow.

ifigoup · 14/12/2018 09:16

I think I’m quite suggestible, because for me Monday is petrol blue (Blue Monday) and Wednesday is orange (Orange Wednesday). Tuesday is dark purple, Thursday is a washed-out bluey-grey, Sunday is silvery-white, and I don’t have strong impressions of Friday or Saturday but definitely not green.

TheQueenSnortsAvocados · 14/12/2018 09:24

Tuesday's and Wednesdays are both green. Other days don't have a colour.

StealthPolarBear · 14/12/2018 09:28

How come most people on this thread have synthasesia? I thought it was very rare.

tigercub50 · 14/12/2018 09:29

I can’t recall overhearing any silly arguments but I used to have quite a lot with DH ( although they were never really about that one particular thing & mainly about him needing to be in control I think). I would often be left completely baffled as to why on earth he said some of the things he did & why they seemed to be so important. I have posted before about the bedroom bin, where he had a go at me because I’d put a sweet wrapper in it when it was on the stairs waiting to be taken back up! I just could not make him see that the bin didn’t need to be in the bedroom to be used! Crazy!

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