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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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Panticles · 15/12/2018 18:49

I recently had a stand up row in the street about the length of the legs of the imaginary dog me and partner were walking.
They ran off saying they would never been seen walking either a dog with short legs or a variety of different legs.

TheChristmasYouGetYouDeserve · 15/12/2018 19:07

In the queue for the Eiffel Tower, I overheard a poor man say that he wanted an ice cream. His wife snapped back, 'Is it a want or a need, Gerald?'

Zwischenwasser · 15/12/2018 23:07

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

According to Mr Willis himself ‚‘it is not a Christmas movie it is a goddamn Bruce Willis movie‘

BoswellandForshort · 15/12/2018 23:25

Not an argument but I was on the train once and the man sitting behind me was on the phone, listening intently but not saying anything. Then he said “Kill Doug. We don’t need him now” Confused

I hope Doug is still around!

Heuschrecke · 16/12/2018 06:39

Boswell, maybe they were scriptwriters discussing a plot?!

Squeakyheart · 16/12/2018 20:54

Fuckbrussel that's what we eventually agreed on!

MrsTommyBanks · 16/12/2018 21:18

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

No, no, no. It's 2. One was hit twice, hence the reason some people claiming there are 3.
The astronaut that took them there has always maintained there are 2.

BigBoringWedding · 16/12/2018 21:20

@MrsTommyBanks .... I think my father’s point was that the answer wasn’t ‘none’.

MrsTommyBanks · 16/12/2018 21:25

@BigBoringWedding naturally he was right.

NoIsACompleteAnswerSometimes · 18/12/2018 17:02

Massive argument up the dog food aisle in Waitrose today. He was telling her to stop looking at stuff ( dog food!) it was only a quick shop, there's 6 days left til Christmas, she's going off the list etc, stop looking at dog food!
She denied looking at dog food, told him not to be so rude, he's shouting down the aisle for her to come and look at something, she's still by the dog food.
I had to walk up and down that aisle several times!

HippyChickMama · 18/12/2018 17:16

Dh and I once had a slightly tipsy argument about whether we would have a swimming pool in our custom built house when we win the lottery. We don't even do the lottery.

Talulahbeige · 20/12/2018 11:40

My mates mum was adamant that my 18 year old ginger cat that I’d had since she was 6 weeks old, must be a male as you can’t get female pure ginger cats! She argued with me about it for ages much to the dismay of my bestie.

baddayattheoffice · 20/12/2018 11:47

Man letting his dog crap on the footpath and not picking it up.
Shouty Passer-by: "hey, aren't you going to pick that up?"
Man with dog: "no, I can't"
Shouty Passer-by: "don't let your dog shit on the path if you can't be arsed to pick it up"
Man w/dog: "Shit on the path? Why where do you do it?"
Shouty Passer-by "On the toilet!!"

I was the shouty passer-by and I found out later that the man with dog only had one arm.

StormTreader · 20/12/2018 11:51

I was once watching a man having a very loud argument with, I presume, his girlfriend while waiting at the train station for a late train.
He got louder and louder "I'm at the station now!.....I'm there now.....Yes, I am!.....Yes I am, SEE!", and in blind fury took his phone from his ear and waved around like he was showing the screen the station. It wasn't a video call.

It was many years ago and I still remember the almost irresistible urge to go up behind him and shout "Great to see you mate, another pint?" just to hear the scream of rage. Grin

CaptainsYuleLog · 20/12/2018 11:52

Tuesday is mauve.

ohtheholidays · 20/12/2018 12:16

I've most probably been heard mumbling to myself about my bloody DH and about him being as useful as a knats piss in a flood in at least several shops in the last 2 weeks and that he shouldn't have bothered coming fucking Christmas shopping with me if all he was going to was sodding moan and fucking whinge!

At least a few time's we've argued in hushed tones with one another whilst queuing/packing our shopping,a couple of times it most probably wasn't as hushed as it should of been but both of those times the lady's serving us gave me a knowing nod and smiled so there DH I was right and you were being a monumental Twat!

I'm saving with Park for next Christmas and with a couple of the supermarkets so the Grinch doesn't have to come Christmas shopping with me ever again Xmas Grin

rosablue · 20/12/2018 12:18

I've mentioned this before but best argument I've ever seen was between the station announcer and a train driver at Ascot Station, many years ago now.

The Announcer was saying 'the train at platform x is going to Woking' and the train driver was shouting back at him 'No I'm not, I'm going to London'. We were getting on and off the train and ended up paused all just looking in wonder at the two of them because the argument was being had so publicly (over the station tannoy, shouting and via the train tannoy) and both of them thinking that they were the ones that were right. Lots of 'but I'm driving the train' 'but I'm in charge of the points' 'but I'm driving the train'.

Unfortunately it was in the days before mobile phones had cameras in them... would have been brilliant to have watched otherwise!

In the end nobody dared get on the train and it eventually slid out of the station - no idea where it ended up going!

(oh and while days don't have colours, lots of music creates coloured ribbons and textures...)

LoadOfUtterBoswellocks · 20/12/2018 12:18

I don't know what synesthesia is, but it sounds cool Grin

Anyway, days of the week don't have colours, but they do have shapes. Obviously Tuesday and Thursday are rectangular. Wednesday is a circle.

DH had one of the few rows we have ever had, full-on swearing in the street and storming off type row. It was about how money management should be taught in schools, if it was. Which it isn't. But if it WAS, how would they approach it.

EastMidsGPs · 20/12/2018 12:19

I sleep walk frequently. I once, according to DH very aggressively pulled his pillows from under his head, waking him. He was unreasonably (I thought) angry with me, made worse because we couldn't find his pillows for a couple of days.
These were very frosty days of tension, sniping and passive aggression😃
Pillows were eventually found in the under stairs cupboard of chaos. This had me giggling uncontrollably, which enhanced DH's rage 100%.
I suspect he still believes I knowingly grabbed his pillows deliberately, whilst I cannot fathom why he just didn't wake me/stop me at the time!

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HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 20/12/2018 12:34

Just coming back to see I have created a monster.

I had no idea days had colours and the concept of Synesthesia is fascinating. Thank you to everyone who has shared their oddest arguments I've been laughing my head off.

In other news I have not seen next doors husband since the argument, I have seen her and I am beginning to wonder if she's smothered him with the tea towel

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TheDistantSky · 20/12/2018 12:44

I had a massive falling out with DH because he said he probably wouldn't love me the same if I underwent genetic engineering to survive on one of Saturn's moons....yes totally logical.

Flouncing out saying "well I'd still love you if you looked like an alien" was probably not my finest moment. There were tears and everything.

SapphireSeptember · 20/12/2018 14:19

I get pictures in my head when I listen to certain songs, almost like music videos, some songs are linear, some bouncy, some spinny.

Anyway, I once overheard bloke A (sitting on one table) telling off bloke B (on another table) for swearing. Bloke B wasn't swearing at anyone, it was just in general conversation with the person he was sat with and there were no children present, but bloke A took umbrage at it anyway and had a go. Bloke B told him to mind his own business. It wasn't really an argument but it's the only thing I can think of. Grin

MulticolourMophead · 20/12/2018 14:45

Talulahbeige

You can get ginger female purebreds, we had one. They are simply less common due to genetics.

Babykoala1 · 20/12/2018 15:05

I onced dumped an ex in public because he wouldn't give me any of his fried chicken. It was after a lot of crappy behaviour from him and the chicken was the straw that broke the camel's back but to onlookers I must have looked crazy 🤷‍♀️

shalll · 20/12/2018 15:30

My DC (6 and 5) argue throughout the bedtime routine about who is first or last to do stuff:

  • They both want to be first up the stairs.
  • They both want to be last in the bath.
  • They both want to be last out of the bath irrational.
  • They both want to be last having teeth brushed.
  • They both want to be first having their story read.
  • They both want to be last into bed.

I'm honestly considering designing a rota.

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