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

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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. .

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!

@charis
I am oldish and when I was at school teachers didn't use coloured chalk - so there must be a different or perhaps several reasons.

I close my eyes and the colour appears together with the day in letters like all other words I think of - my DD on the other hand sees pictures.

Tuesday is the worst day of the week and is therefore definitely grey

In a pub garden back in the summer a couple at the next table were having a spectacular row about what they thought their dog’s voice would be like if he could talk. He thought the dog would have a Midlands accent and she was massively offended on the dog’s behalf.

DH and I had the worst row we’ve ever had in Ikea about the layout of their multi story car park

DH and I have had plenty of rows about towels. He fails to appreciate that towels must match and be used on rotation!

In awe of Spring tea towels though - I only have standard and Christmas! Must up my game ;)

Re:- days as colours, what do they smell like then?

Nevermond, just read the synaesthesia thread.

One of my twins' best rows was about how the other one poo'd.
Yes, the conversation went
DT1: you poo like that
DT2: I do not (massively offended), I poo like this...
DT1: OMG you don't...Mum how does DT2 poo? Doesn't she poo like this....etc etc

I walked out questioning my life.

I was working at a very expensive event. £500 a couple for a dinner

One couple spent the entire 2nd and 3rd course arguing about 10 foot away from me

Apparently he lied and she was patronising they went around circles and I never got anymore info than that other than it lasted 90mins!!!

Learning to drive and out with Dad to practice...
He decided I should reverse around the corner. There was NO CORNER. We were in a big empty car park, there weren't even any lines marked on the ground.

So he described this corner and I started my manoeuvre. Then he started yelling at me because I had driven across the pavement and was in someone's front garden!!

To reiterate - the corner, pavement and front garden were all in his imagination!!

Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too...

Iwanttobe this has amused me greatly
Now,if you'd please get off my herbaceous border where the first crocus are showing through,perhaps we could chat about something sensible? Thank you!

I caught my kids arguing over who was going to play with a hair the other day. My oldest has long hair and it had clearly come from his head, but the youngest was playing with it. By the time I intervened, the little one was pulling strands of his own hair out and trying to barter a few shorter hairs for a longer one from his brother and I said I would throw away all their toys if they kept acting as though a strand of hair was the best thing they had ever come across.

Monday is yellow
Tuesday pale blue
Wednesday royal blue
Thursday orange
Friday black
Saturday white
Sunday Gold

Someone ahead of me on his phone in a supermarket checkout queue: "…and you know I fucking hate zebras!" click

I still wonder what he was so cross about, you don't see many zebras in Stowmarket

Before we were married, DH and I split up for about six months. During this time I went to visit my parents.

One evening they had a tipsy argument over what sort of board game DH would be (we've been together since high school so my parents know him well). I sat there laughing at them as it got more and more heated!

I wish I could remember which games they both picked but I only remember how surreal the whole thing was.

@DisgracetotheYChromosome My DH reckons it's at least E5. Like trying to solo Giggling Crack at Brimham.

My daughter got really cross at her uncle and granny she shouted " you called me Jim and that's not funny", We all howled, needless to say it made way it worse.

Once on a family holiday with aunt/uncle/cousins I remember the kids were all tucked up in bed while the adults played Trivial Pursuit(s). Next morning at breakfast we found aunt and uncle furiously packing and leaving early. Years later it turns out that long-held grudges/festering resentment had erupted. The question ‘how many golf balls are on the moon?’ breaking the camel’s back. Probably didn’t help that my dad called my aunt a daft cow (or similar) when she said none......

In HMV a few months ago, overheard a couple having a heated whisper argument about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not

I'm sure many people will have heard bits of conversations that I've had with friends over the years. We're an odd bunch.

Most recently walking through London my friend and I were comparing the relative danger of british snakes in comparison to my mother, think the result of that was we decided both of them are relatively harmless. Lots of height jokes and once we were in the pub arguing about how to commit the perfect murder.

Ds1 and ds2 once had an argument in the car about who had more blood in their body.
I was silently pissing myself. It got very heated, they were about 8 and 6.

I once phoned DH fuming because he had moved or taken my fags and I couldn't find them - he had gone to work. Turned out we'd been burgled! (A very long time ago I may add!)

(Days don't have a colour but they do have a shape like a twisting ribbon, with morning at the bottom and night time at the top - and the change from Sunday to Monday is like a big long slide, with Monday at the bottom.)

My DH and DC once had a stand up row about a half eaten doughnut.

Two teenage boys sloping along the street in trackies and hats. I was smoking outside
Overheard their heated discussion... about whether the moon was waxing or waning
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