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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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April2020mom · 14/12/2018 19:11

I was in town the other night. We were at a popular restaurant. Whilst I was waiting for a table I looked around the restaurant. A couple seated at the next table were arguing about how much they were going to pay the staff.
So funny. But seriously I think that this sort of thing needs to be decided prior to the meal out.

Teateaandmoretea · 14/12/2018 19:18

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

Ikea was the scene of one our biggest rows ever. I can't even remember what it was about Grin

Ofthread · 14/12/2018 19:21

I can't believe any of you, Tuesday is blue.

alansleftfoot · 14/12/2018 19:24

Tuesday is yellow
Friday is green
The number 3 is orange

FishesaPlenty · 14/12/2018 20:10

Ikea was the scene of one our biggest rows ever. I can't even remember what it was about

Rowing in Ikea? Surely not?

Poppyinagreenfield · 14/12/2018 20:20

My neighbours were shouting at each other because she had put the teaspoon in the wrong place in the dishwasher. It went on for over an hour.

MollysMummy2010 · 14/12/2018 20:31

Seriously can’t believe you don’t all know that The Cure told you what colour the days are. Wednesday is blue.

MrsGrindah · 14/12/2018 20:34

Two blokes behind me
“ I didn’t say she looked like Wallace!!! .. pause... I said she looked like Gromit!”

MarilynSlumroe · 14/12/2018 20:41

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Trills · 14/12/2018 20:41

Wednesday is not blue. Monday is blue. Tuesday is grey (and Wednesday too).

FishesaPlenty · 14/12/2018 20:46

Seriously can’t believe you don’t all know that The Cure told you what colour the days are. Wednesday is blue

Erm, unless it's a remix I think you'll find Wednesdays are grey, like Tuesdays.

Mondays are blue, or sometimes black.

FishesaPlenty · 14/12/2018 20:47

Faster typing than me Trills.

Gwenhwyfar · 14/12/2018 20:48

From the couple upstairs

"We're over' (or similar)

"What, cos I show me little arse?" this repeated over and over

I don't know what the hell he'd been doing. I can only think some kind of webcam thing, but I'm really not sure who'd pay to see it.

I also have to listen to a lot of "Tell daddy you hate him".

MollysMummy2010 · 14/12/2018 20:54

Shit, old and off to YouTube the cure quickly....

littlemisscomper · 14/12/2018 21:00

Tiniest snippet of an argument outside Tescos has had me wondering all day...

Her: You didn't tell them?!! (as in, shocked and upset that he had told them)
Him: I had to!! A little girl had lost her...

I was bursting with curiosity but I'm British so just walked on past and went about my business. It sounded very dramatic though!

Piewacket · 14/12/2018 21:36

I've never even thought about it before, but bloody hell, Tuesday IS yellow. How did I not know?!

Willow1992 · 14/12/2018 21:40

A guy once sat next to me on the bus and after a while answered the phone, it was his girlfriend. They were talking all sweet with each other, then he answers "...yes, I am sitting next to someone... Yes it's a girl...well I had to sit next to someone!... Fine!" and then got up and moved seat to sit next to a bloke! Shock

Ivegotnothing · 14/12/2018 21:41

According to The Cure Tuesday is gray (Monday is blue) ...I can’t stop it going around in my head now!

Ivegotnothing · 14/12/2018 21:44

I really must read everything...sorry, much too late with The Cure Grin

HeffalumpsDaughter · 14/12/2018 21:50

I was pregnant and had been vomiting solidly for 6 months. I was in hospital having fluids and I woke up from a nap craving a Mars Icecream. The first thing I’d actually wanted to eat in months. Dh was due to visit a couple of hours later and had agreed to get me two mars ice creams. When he arrived I saw the nurse who buzzed him in have a quick chat with him, then look at me with a worried expression. He came over to me and presented me with two mars bars. I cried and then hissed at him that I actually hated him. I still get angry whenever I see mars bars.

Skittlesandbeer · 14/12/2018 22:03

Ok, you asked for odd.

I shared a room with (much younger) sister as kids. I woke late one night to hear her arguing in her sleep. Both sides of the argument. One in English, one in Italian.

It was about ice cream.

Trills · 14/12/2018 22:08

"What, cos I show me little arse?"

To show one's arse is a regional phrase meaning something a bit like "to get visibly angry in public".

MoonriseKingdom · 14/12/2018 22:09

DD1 and 2 (4 and 2 years) keep having this argument:
DD1: i’m 4 and you’re 2
DD2: No you’re not 4
DD1: I am 4
It keeps going in circles until the 4 year old comes to me wailing ‘she won’t let me be 4’! I can only imagine the teenage rows in about 10 years time Shock

Gwenhwyfar · 14/12/2018 22:09

"To show one's arse is a regional phrase meaning something a bit like "to get visibly angry in public"."

I really don't think it was that.
They have no qualms about being visibly angry in public and having massive shouting matches in the street. She was also calling him a 'faggot'.

Trills · 14/12/2018 22:15

It makes sense then that they were arguing about him shouting in public?

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