Innocuous conversations that you have overheard that have stayed with you...

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When my dc were pre-schoolers, I was in some toilets in a church, wrestling various small humans with their pants/handwashing etc.
A student (I think) came in and said to her friend "My hair felt weird so I thought I'd come and have a look at it in the mirror".
I can remember at the time wondering when the last time was that I had time to look in a mirror other than when I was brushing my teeth. And slightly resenting the fact that this gorgeous young thing had the freedom to just saunter about noticing how her hair 'felt'.
Such a small throwaway comment but it really stuck with me. Anyone else?

@MulticolourMophead I live near there too, we call them lie cestor and loogabarooga to see how many people correct us!

@FlamingoAndJohn I live nearby, as I've said, and I have heard a few different pronunciations myself. It's not a story.

olbndansmummy The odd thing is that I've never heard Market Harborough being pronounced wrongly, people seem to get that one.

Friend overheard a woman on the train shouting 'Rhianna, Eminem, get here now' to her two children that were running up and down the carriage.

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen @MulticolourMophead, but I am saying that I first heard the story of the lost Australian at least 30 years ago.

Rhianna (or Rhiannon) is a Welsh name and wouldn't raise too many eyebrows on its own but Eminem?? Poor child.

An American tourist in Ken High St asked me if this was the right bus stop for 'Slug Uh'. Took me ages (and his clue of 'near Winser, you know the castle where the Queen lives') to work out he meant SLOUGH.

I thought it was probably due to the Rihanna and Eminem duet they did a few years ago 🤣

Older lady "I got a bit carried away shaving my legs and just carried on and did my noo noo too"
Younger lady "Mum please don't tell everyone!"

Our (former) next-door neighbour mid argument with his partner in their back garden: "and anyway get back to your own country".
Me and my dc crept into our kitchen quietly closing the door and exploded in laughter.
His partner was from Blackpool. We live in Merseyside.

On the bus, mother with two toddlers:
"What period is this house from, Henry? Clever boy, it is Georgian. Just look at the detail in the architecture here. Oh Henry, look at this tree. Can you tell mummy what kind of tree it is? Please stop strangling your brother with his scarf. It's an oak tree. What is it? Henry, your brother is turning blue".
Henry was a little shit intent on killing his sibling and she sat simpering away. "Henry, your brother is turning blue" was a favourite line of ours for months.

@Blabbyblab Reminds me of the time I was in Asda and a woman came out of the toilet saying "Come along Beyonce" as a little girl of around 2 trotted out behind her

Giant Barnoldswick just gets shortened to Barlick by the locals, like Skelmersdale gets shortened to Skem.

TheChippendenSpook
Giant Barnoldswick just gets shortened to Barlick by the locals, like Skelmersdale gets shortened to Skem

How do you account for Google woman then, Spook? (I doubt she's a local)

I was working as a waitress 20 or so years ago, and a guy came in saying he was a Chef, and proceeded to order the cou-cou (cous cous), I giggled to myself, but then the actual cook/owner who was my boss said she had run out of cous cous so finely chopped up some rice with the herbs to see if he'd notice. he didn't.

Overheard on the 20.28 to Paddington:

Would you rather have...

A full sized tattoo of Celine Dion down your back...

Or...

Fish slices for hands..?

My granny called it "coo-coos", Rainbow! We have called it that ever since. We mispronounce a lot of foods on purpose for a silly joke such as "kwitch" for quiche and "la-sag-knee" for lasagne. No doubt we've been overheard in the supermarket doing this at some point

Oooh - tough choice, kooklet but I'm going to go with the tattoo

2 girls on a train, one was talking about what I thought was her mate, and her sex life which got kinkier and weirder as she went on, until the penny dropped and I realised she was talking about 50 shades of grey (this was when the book really took off, I hadn't read it but you'd had to have been living under a rock to miss the hype)

SnugglySnerd, we do that too!

Google has a mind of her own Giant and can never be questioned!

Oh and I remember (with some rage) two tweens in new look moaning about the fact there weren't clothes in their sizes "I mean look at these, they're all size 14s! Seriously, who's a size 14?!

I AM a size 14. And was stood right next to them, there was a lot of deep breaths and "they're only children, they're only children, don't yell at them" in my head...

Any Joyce Grenfell fans out there? Remember her “George, don't do that!” infant teacher monologues?

I was at a tourist site and I went to use the loo. While I was in there, a whole lot of school children aged around 6 or 7 came in - from quite a posh school from the look of their uniforms.

Well, lots of girls came crowding into the ladies', and lots of boys went crowding into the gents. As they were all coming out, I could hear one of their teachers saying: "George - don't push him! George, don't! George, what do you do when you come out of the toilets?" As far as I can recall, those were her exact words!!

It's a pity she didn't actually say, "George, don't do that!" but she came so close to it!

In France, in a youth hostel lots of many years ago. Friend looking out of large window...
"It's nice out"
Other friend
"Put is away George, here comes a Gendarme"
Silly, but every time somebody say "it's nice out.....brings a smile!

@MrsSnitch Noooooooo! 😱

Laying in bed on a Nile Cruise tied up in Aswan.

Normal sounds you'd hear in any Egyptian city at that time of the night.

Then the unmistakeable southern twang of our American cruise-mates to the crew, "Can you get them to turn that goddamn music off?!"

The music was the nightly call to prayer. Oops.