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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!

OP posts:
FuckBrussel · 14/12/2018 22:30

Monday is grey
Tuesday is grey
Wednesday is grey
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday - all grey

I'm a dog.

EdwardScissorskills · 14/12/2018 22:35

Walking to the station one morning, a couple walking in the same direction moved from a conversation, to a disagreement, to a name-calling row. I crossed the road to try to avoid getting caught up in it but still heard them swearing and yelling at each other on the other pavement. The topic? "Which is bigger: Scotland or Canada?" Hmm

HashTagLil · 14/12/2018 22:37

Another vote for yellow here. Saturday is silver, Sunday gold. Monday a sludgy, greeny brown colour.

AlmostGrockle · 14/12/2018 23:40

Monday = navy blue
Tuesday= light brown
Wednesday=charcoal
Thursday = pinkish red
Friday= yellow
Saturday= dark brown
Sunday= light blue

Wasywasydoodah · 14/12/2018 23:40

I once had a big argument with DH about the way he was cutting cherry tomatoes for a tomato salad. He wasn’t using a board, you see, thus leaving slightly ragged edges of skin on one side. I was probably pregnant, certainly stressed!

ScreamingValenta · 14/12/2018 23:42

I'm Grin Grin Grin at the way this thread has morphed into two completely separate discussions, one about weird arguments and another about synaesthesia.

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 15/12/2018 00:02

3yo DD1, storming into our room with a face like thunder: "I am a Terrible Potato, brownly do I go! ...... IT'S NOT FUNNY! I AM GOING BACK TO MY CAVE.... WITH THE OTHER CROSS POTATOES!"

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 15/12/2018 00:02

Oh and Tues is lime green.

flyingdragonzog · 15/12/2018 00:16

My nan had a funny row with my answerphone

She was MAD I wasn't speaking back and wasting her time and could I move the damn phone nearer because she didn't have time for this and ranted about how she has a lot to do and is a busy woman and I know this and all she wants is a quick answer... it went on for about 15 mins

I phoned her back hours later when I listened to the message. Obviously she had thought despite my voicemail saying "hi I'm not here right now but leave a message and I will get back to you" and the beep... that I was listening in to every word

All she wanted to know was if I had my mums number. The daughter she rings EVERY SINGLE DAY and hasn't changed her number in years! She still asked for it despite saying "oh yes I did catch her earlier... so I've got a pen, what's the number?"

🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

ohwellinthatcasetryprunes · 15/12/2018 00:27

Overheard not by me but DH - apparently I was arguing with someone in my sleep:

"I've NO IDEA what it is, it's kind of blobby "

icannotremember · 15/12/2018 00:30

Of course Tuesday is blue. Some of you are weird. And Wednesday is a murky green. Thursday is orange. Friday's red, Saturday yellow, Sunday sort of brown, Monday a sort of blue tinged white.

I don't have synaesthesia. The days just have colours.

AviatorShades · 15/12/2018 01:17

Grin at the two threads, and also...a CROSS POTATO?ShockGrin

I'm loving this thread(s) Grin

Blibbyblobby · 15/12/2018 01:17

my husband once got very angry and upset that I let the soup he made boil when I was reheating it. It turned into a huge row as the soup became a symbol for my utter selfishness in all things.

To the day “boiling your soup” is our name for getting irrationally wound up by something very minor

Curlyshabtree · 15/12/2018 07:58

My favourite is an exasperated man shouting at his wife “I told you the best thing to do was purée it”

Maidsamilking · 15/12/2018 08:07

We were crossing a bridge in Birmingham when a lady coming in the opposite direction stopped and hissed at her husband. "It's 47!" She said it with such anger that me and my kids were chuckling for ages about it.

gladheart · 15/12/2018 08:13

@alansleftfoot my first thought was, well it is yellow actually! Monday is red.

TheRealHousewife · 15/12/2018 09:11

@BigBoringWedding your post about an argument about ‘how many golf balls are on the moon’ got me googling. I found a couple of answers. Some say 3 and some say 2. I never knew there were any on, just like your relative. You learn something every day via mn Grin

TheRealHousewife · 15/12/2018 09:12

BTW Monday is definatley blue and Sunday is yellow.

Newjobnewstart · 15/12/2018 09:33

My two are currently arguing over how to set up sylvanian family! Things have been thrown. Life was more peaceful when i didnt have a fortnite ban in place.

Reaa · 15/12/2018 09:47

how many golf balls are on the moon?

The answer has to be zero

BigBoringWedding · 15/12/2018 10:03

Ah...... the memories........sorry Reaa but... there are three golf balls on the moon.... Alan Shepard is the only person to hit a golf ball on the Moon. During the Apollo 14 mission he fitted an 8 iron head to the handle of a lunar sample collection device and launched three golf balls.

ScreamingValenta · 15/12/2018 10:10

how many golf balls are on the moon?

Professor Google says 3 - launched by astronauts during moon landings.

showmethegin · 15/12/2018 10:15

@Shamalamalam that has to be IKEA Coventry surely?! Clearly designed by a lunatic

Squeakyheart · 15/12/2018 10:17

Just when I thought this thread couldn't get funnier!

Overheard a groom to be arguing with his fiancée and his mother. "Am I the only one worried that purple bridesmaid dresses will clash with the red carpet at the venue?" Said quite loudly in a very argumentative way.

Squeakyheart · 15/12/2018 10:18

Also just remembered arguing with my brother whether submarines sink or dive!