Juiciest conversation/message exchange you've accidentally overheard/seen

[Echobelly]

For a bit of fun, have you ever heard a conversation or seen an exchange of messages that you're not supposed to but you can't help tuning into?

About a year ago I was next to an older guy on the tube who was typing out a furious email, presumably to an adult child, along the lines of 'Your grandfather would be ashamed, the businesses of [Family Name] has to be passed on....' and things along those lines. I just caught a glance of it and was transfixed. Serious family melodrama! The whole tone of it was like something from a vintage TV series, I honestly didn't think anyone actually talked (typed?) like that anymore.

Just remembered another one. One evening, on the packed top deck of a bus, a guy was on the phone to arrange some sort of work/service/appointment. I only tuned in because he was so loud.

He gave his name, his address and then proceeded to sort out a date for whatever., announcing that Friday to Sunday was absolutely no good whatsoever because he was going away.

I often wonder whether anyone broke in while he was away. He might as well have left everything he owned on a table outside to save him a busted front door.

Train from Manchester to London. For the ENTIRE journey a woman was on the phone to her friend (based on the lack of pauses from train woman, friend did not contribute a great deal to the conversation) talking very loudly about this guy she was seeing and how amazing he was. Then she said, "but I have to be careful, because what if this is what my therapist was talking about? What if this is just another guy I'm becoming obsessed with? We've only been on one date, but I'm so in love with him already(!!!)". I feel like at this point the whole carriage was hooked.

Later on she started talking about how her own training to be a psychotherapist was going, and how she really wanted to help people, the way her many therapists had helped her(!!!)

Brilliant 😂😂

@LunaNorth 😂😂

On the bus home a girl sat at the seat in front giggling and loudly talking on her phone.
"I don't know how I explain it to my parents. I just got told to go home and they're going to let me know the decision in the morning."
She then went on to add, "We snuck out for lunch behind the bins and that dick followed us. Now I could lose my job just cos of a blow job at the bins with the boss"
What struck me was how pleased she was with herself throughout! Me and the rest of the bus were like 👀 👀 but then she got off at the next stop so that was the end of that!

A few years ago I was in the departure lounge at Gatwick. On the bank of seats waiting opposite I recognised a well-known female comedian frequently on TV.
A while later we were on one of those transfer buses. From the seat behind me I heard her very distinctive voice 'God, l'm so glad I've got a whole week of not dealing with Dave, he's being a complete arse!'
I've always wondered if Dave was her builder, a family member or someone from telly land.

I had access to my bosses emails. Turned out he had a psychiatric disorder and he was also under care of local psychiatric hospital as a letter came from there to his office. The emails were from his family to him, basically he’d caused drama and fall outs with them which had come to a head when his brother had visited him in UK from Australia.

I stayed there for 2 months with this psycho (he was unhinged) before leaving.

It’s a bit of a sad one but years ago my new phone number turned out to be one digit away from the local Probate Office’s number. I lost count of the number of genuinely distressed people who phoned my number and thought they’d finally got through to someone. Most of them were fine but I did get some abusive and persistent callers who were convinced that I was the person who could sort out their paperwork/disputes etc. Lots of bizarre stories about complicated family affairs! After a couple of months of trying to change the number I just unplugged the phone.

My 80 year old Wheelchair using Mum had a voicemail left from a Cosmetic Surgery clinic warning her that if she didn't pay the balance for her Breast Enhancement immediately they would be taking legal action against her.
I checke dit our for her, clinic was legit but they got the wrong number - bit of a GDPR breach!

Walked past two women on the street last week, they bumped into each other as one came out the nail salon.

"I've got a name!" Said one, loudly, "you know the body they found, I've got a name for who did it"

Both women were angry. It didn't sound like they had been informed by legit means, nor that they would use the knowledge for good.

It wasn't the nicest street, I couldn't stop and listen to more.

Not overheard but was working with someone who had a publishing business and his other business connected was being taken over and I was his PA and helping him clear out his office.

He was in a photo along with some other photos and papers and was in a gondola or something with a very famous British actress, he was married at the time. I mentioned “oh I’ve heard of her”. He shot me a look as if to say it was a long time ago… they’d obviously been having an affair. I think the photo either got binned or put in a private place at his home. I used to speak to his wife when she rang up too.

Were you able to get the message to anyone? I hope they were able to get to her home in time.

Not quite the same thing, but I was once stopped by a lady who wanted directions to a particular destination. The route was complicated, so I asked her to get her phone out so I could show her on Google Maps. She unlocked her phone to reveal .... lesbian pornographic images! She quickly closed down her browser and opened Google Maps - neither of us mentioned the pictures on her browser. I showed her how to get to her destination, she thanked me, and off she went.

It was so weird. She was in full Islamic dress, so - massive generalisation I know - she didn't seem the type to be viewing porn, lesbian or otherwise. And it was a bit strange that she couldn't work out the route herself, given that she had Google Maps on her phone. I did wonder afterwards if it was some sort of "flashing" and she was hoping to get a kick out of my shocked expression - if she had been male, I would definitely think it was deliberate, but it's unusual behaviour for a woman. So it was probably just an embarrassing mistake.

I think I would have phoned the police if I’d witnessed this

I was on a bus, sitting on the top deck in front of two teenage lads. One pointed out of the window at a shop, and said “ you should definitely get your suit from there - Aquascrotum are great.”

I’ve never been able to think of that shop any other way since!

You need to report this to the police, with details of when & where the assault took place along with as much descriptive detail you can remember that may help them identify the couple.

Bunch of guys in their 30s walking up the high street on a Saturday afternoon, one of them proudly declared “I still get a blow job off the wife every now and then”.

Another time walking past a couple in Brighton the guy said “do you want to get married?” and she replied “nahh”, wasn’t sure if it was a general chat or a very lazy proposal.

Mine isn't very nice, but I still think about this woman now almost 30 years later.

We were at Watford train station and were waiting for another train, and were sat near the phone booths. This young lady was on the phone, very distressed.

She was crying and kept saying to the person on the other end 'Ive lost the baby, do you even care'. I had to assume that the other person didn't as she kept saying things like 'how can you be so cruel'.

She just sad down at the phone after the call. I went over to her to ask could I do anything. She just cried and said no.

This has stuck with me my entire adult life as we were about the same age at the time. I hope she managed to get though it all okay, and really hope she dumped the person on the other end.

My favourite overheard conversation on a train was:

’You can’t have two fire energies in a relationship! You need one fire and one water energy. That’s just basic physics!’

On the train a couple in their 60's. They looked a bit rough and had been drinking. The woman shouts at the man I'm not giving you a blow job you stink of piss!

I was sitting in a hospital waiting room (cancer clinic) and a woman was as talking to her mum on the phone about her phone chat sex work, telling her she should do it too. The memorable line was “just don’t tell them your in your 50s, overweight and on benefits”

I've got a similar worrying one. I was going for my daily walk to our local park when a youngish woman came flying round the corner on foot, she was dressed but in her slippers and had her mobile phone in her hand. She went racing into the corner shop across the road and a few seconds later this bloke followed her. I've never seen anyone look so terrifying, he was raging about something. He saw she'd gone into the shop (I assumed to be around people) and lurked around outside. I stayed watching because I was worried about her but after a couple of minutes the guy walked off in the opposite direction. Another couple of minutes pass and the woman comes back out of the shop to go back the way she came from, evidently terrified and looking behind her constantly and typing on her phone. I was convinced the bloke must not have been far away and was poised to call the police because I have no doubt if he caught her he would have had no qualms about hurting her in public in broad daylight.

She carried on walking very fast and looking behind her and I followed at a distance also looking out for the guy but he didn't return. I lost sight of her eventually but have thought about it often since and wonder what happened to her.

Next door neighbours:
He was a proper, blokey white van man. She was giving him shit because she'd found out he'd shagged other men in prison.
We've since moved.

This wasn't something I overheard on my own, more of a collective work of overhearing of my team that we pieced together afterwards via half heard conversations, weird things that happened and the company suddenly not doing well.

I worked in the office of a small construction company, only about 30 of us with two company owners.

One of the owners was my manager and quite a dick had had an affair years before, left his wife with two small children etc etc married the new woman has another child yada yada. He was constantly CONSTANTLY going on about how crap first wife was, how fat and ugly she was and how slim and gorgeous new wife was how amazing they were together etc.

New woman was nice enough and occasional came into the office to help out and was getting more involved in the work. After I had been there a year then boss started acting different, bad mood, moping etc etc then we started hearing bits and pieces. Him on the phone with her, him on the phone with his business partner (close the door for god's sake!) we started to have trouble paying our invoices, and we all started comparing notes.

Turns out the new woman was having an affair. That made boss man mope for months and months but the shit didn't hit the fan until he admitted it to his business partner.

You see, they had dodged tax by putting a big chunk of the company in her name. She was 20% owner and now boss has to tell other boss that she was leaving and they had to buy her out. Other boss was refusing to sacrifice any of his own stake and that my boss would have to give her the house in order to keep the company etc etc. Glorious.

It was months of intrigue and was great for us as suddenly he stopped micromanaging us and we could just get on with our work. Most productive quarter ever.

I used to live in a house with old windows you could hear everything through, on a street next to a pub so I’d hear quite a few juicy conversations.

One that stands out to me was late at night and a couple who’d been on a first date were snogging and arranging a second date whilst outside my window. The woman gets in her car and drives off and the man, thinking he’s alone in a quiet street, says “if only she knew what she getting herself into” followed by a strange almost evil laugh 😱