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?

A few years ago me and DP were halfway through a packed lunch (we were out for the day on a trip) behind us was a small boy perhaps around 5 trying to climb up on something. He asked his mum for help as he couldn't quite get up to which she replied "you have to take responsibility for your own growing" and left him to try and climb up himself

From my childhood - sitting on a bus with my parents. Behind us were two elderly ladies who kept up a running commentary on every sign they saw, like two children just learning to read. "Coffee morning there next Tuesday!" "Jumble sale next week!" and then the one that caused my father to snort with laughter into his handkerchief:

"Temporary open space!"

So now if anyone is clearly out a cupboard/moving furniture/etc my mother or I will point and say knowingly "Temporary empty space!"

In M&S recently, overhead a husband saying to his wife: "oh darling, do I really need another cashmere sweater?"

This is not just any couple's conversation about clothes...

"What kinda lyrics are they, what the fuck is an agadoo anyway?"

Man shouting loudly to his wife at the other end of the aisle in Morrisons. "Luv, do they have that foreign bread?"

His wife picks up a baguette.

DH and I have called them foreign bread ever since.

I heard two teenage mum's talking in a cafe

Mum 1. Baby has said his first word!
Mum2. What was it?
Mum 1. Burger

Me and my DP have been howling at these. So funny!

A woman coming out of a Zumba class sounding like a female Ian Paisley
"Well Babs, I'll have you know that to my mind that was nothing like dancing"

On the ward after one of my DC was born, the curtains were round the next bed. I could hear weeping and a woman's voice said "ah come on now, stop crying, all newborn babies are ugly"

An old couple in the supermarket,
Him "I thought I'd get a bit of cheese"
Her "Cheeese, we don't eat cheese Ron"
Him under his breath "No, you don't eat bloody cheese"

In the wine aisle, heard one young woman saying to her friend

''Since he came out of prison, he'll only drink white wine now''

Been pondering it ever since...

A few years ago we were in our local park (in Sunderland) during the illuminations. They had little shooting fountains in the pond that were lit up and moved to the music. It was pretty nice and we stood and watched, and a bloke stood next to us until his wife shouted

"Haway man, it's not the fucking Bellagio!"

He skulked off.

At work, 2000s, one mental health nurse to another mental health nurse -
'So said told him "I don't care if you are a consultant psychiatrist, John, take your medication!" ' - this was on the ward for NHS professionals.

At school, 1980s, in 'hygiene' class, after discussing smoking. One girl pipes up 'it's easy to give up smoking, miss! My mum's done it six times!'

In Disneyland with best friend and our DDs. Mum in front really CBeebies presenting to her DC in a double buggy, so under 4. Going on and on about how yesterday was a bad day (complete with thumbs down) so today can we have a goooood day (with thumbs up action), ok can we have a good day. A good day makes mummy happy.
It's stuck with us for 5 years. We were hoping we'd see them in the park so we could check if they were having a gooood day. When we got home we got matching "today is a good day" plaques to put next to our photos

Teenagers on a bus.

Boy: are you going to this party?
Girl 1: I dunno. I think Sam might be going and if he’s there I won’t have a good time because it takes all my energy not to kick him in the face.
Boy: which one even is he?
Girl 2: come on, you know who he is. Looks like a thumb.

(Name changed to protect identity of adolescent boys who look like digits)

Waiting on the platform for a train, a group of teens come down the stairs. One girl looks up and down and says
'why is everyone standing around waiting?'

Maybe for a fucking train?!

These are hilarious! Laughing aloud at the teenager who looked like a thumb!!😂

Trendy London co-working place. Beardy guy in his twenties turns to another man in his twenties, shakes his head and says "ah... You see gender is a concept"

I was behind a couple coming out of Morrisons last year and one said to the the other..

So what is Brexit?

"Well I must say Malcolm, your eyebrows are absolutely FLOURISHING"

I really want to see someone who looks like a thumb

School pick up
Woman 1: "So yeah, now he's gone. Took all his shit, left me on my own with the kids"
Woman 2: tut
Woman 1: can't believe it
Woman 2: gone back to his wife?
Woman 1: yeah

Many years ago I was visiting Oxford. In a cafe I struck up a conversation with an American tourist. He commented that he had been around to see the colleges but couldn't find the University!

@MrsJamin but gender is a concept....?

On a bus a few years ago, I sat down behind two women just as one said to the other 'so, I haven't had a poo in 29 days. Well not a proper one anyway'

I wonder what she considered a proper poo?

Like this:

@cauliflowersqueeze just Google image search thumbhead, it's a known phenomenon.

Getting off my bus in the East End of Glasgow, I overheard a woman on her phone "not doing much today hen, just taking the wean for a spray tan". The wean she was talking about was probably about 20 (my FIL still referred to my BIL at age 50 as 'the wean') but the woman on the bus was with a primary school aged kid, so it tickled me.