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?

@Blabbyblab sadly yes. It must have been about 8 years ago now and I often wonder what happened when that poor child went to school

@geistohnegrenzen that might have been my husband!

My two DD were in the bath many years ago. The youngest was taking mouthfuls of water and spitting then in the eldest’s face, she was about 6. I nearly died when she suddenly remarked “ Well, this Is the worst Spa I’ve ever been in!”

In the train from London, approaching Edinburgh, along the coast, Fife on the other side of the Firth. American Dad to his four children, “Look, kids, that’s France over there”....

I was nursing at a hospital in Walsall.

One of the elderly lady patients had a bag of sweets,one of the nurses asked for one.

The reply in the broadest Black Country accent ever was “Get out of it,if I showed you my arse you’d want half of it!!!”

This was about 25 years ago,I still use that phrase now.

These are great!

In the supermarket wine aisle - observing a rather posh woman shopping with her little girl (aged roughly 8) very cute child in school uniform.

Mum says, distractedly, ‘oh darling, Viognier or Sauvignon?’

Child says, understandably bemused, ‘I don’t know, mummy.’

@ithinkisawahairbrushbackthere I don't get it?!

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..?

I momentarily thought you meant the driver announced that! 😂

My DS (was about 5) went swimming with friend of mine & her DS. They used the family changing room. Later he sheepishly said to me "muuuum... there was a lady there with loads of hair... down there..."

I said "well, everyone grows hair down there... when you're older you'll get hair there too".

He looked horrified & replied "oh my Goooood, I am soooo shaving my balls every day!"

Overheard two Americans buying sausage rolls in Greggs, Lymington.

As the assistant turned away to the till, one whispered to the other one 'what is this meat? Is it....PORK??'

I felt proud to be British

I worked in Asda for a few years and one day a couple were loading the shopping onto the belt. The woman looked furious with the man.

They both came to the end to pack and the woman yelled ‘you bastard’ while looking at a phone in her hand.
Then she started screaming at him. From what she was screaming , I’m guessing the phone was his and she had found messages from the OW on it.
He didn’t respond, just kept packing and paid.

Would you rather have...

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

Or...

Fish slices for hands..?

This prompted a spirited breakfast table discussion between me and my seven year old. I had to show him a photo of Celine Dion, and a video clip of her warbling 'My Heart Will Go on' he was not impressed but in fact we both opted for the tattoo. As DS pointed out, at least you don't have to look at it, and can still wipe your own bottom, even if it has Celine Dion on it.

My dh and i call chicken thighs thigs-i cant remember how it started but we fo get funny looks in tesco

I think I agree with your, Boudoir!

I dont want this thread to ever end!

Heard an elderly woman telling her friend her grandson. Was in Thigh land.

In the 60s my dad was waiting outside a seaside shop for my mam. A kid came out wailing followed by his mum hitting him furiously on the backside ( they did in those days) and shouting “We brought you here to enjoy yoursef!!!”

Sitting the cinema after watching the film Selma. As the credits rolled I heard the young girl sitting behind me ask her mum if what occurred in the film was a true story and if Martin Luther King was a real person. Mum replies "I'm not really sure to be honest.."

We were at Drayton manor zoo looking at some animals, a woman's and her young son wandered up beside us he asked "mum what are they" Mum said "pink storks".
My then 3 year old ds piped up, "no they are Mingos"

😂. Blizy

Ahh my ds used to call them flapingoes!

Aw cute! Dd1 calls them "flingoes" she is 5 and still can't say it properly but it's adorable.

Walking through the town centre in the opposite direction to two men having an obviously heated discussion, lots of gesticulating, angry tones etc. The snippet of the debate I heard while passing, consisted of 'It's not though, because that's the one where Shaggy and Scooby find out that....'. Often wonder what Shaggy and Scooby found out in that episode, and who was correct

About 15 years ago, on a bus, overheard two teenage girls talking about their eyebrows, one of them said “eyebrows should look like sisters, not twins”. And I thought “Hmm. Yeah, you’re right!”

Years ago in my teens I was sitting in a cafe in one of the snugs enjoying my burger and chips. A young couple came and sat in the next snug and while they were looking at the menu the female said quite loudly to the male, “Did you feel the coil inside me when we had sex last night?” I was shocked that couples would discuss things like this in a cafe!!! 😂