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.

Snuggly woofs??

I was on a train home from work and this lady was on the phone complaining about her new job and all the people there . Then realised I recognised her and there had been an email that day with a picture of her as she had just started a really senior position at my office . Definitely am more careful about what I ever say on public transport now !

Well, if that was happening in public, what the hell was going on behind closed doors. Did anyone ask her if she was OK?

Two guys strolling past me one lunchtime in a busy city, all I heard was one of them angrily going, "who, Jared? What a cunt" and that was it. Always wondered what Jared had done that was so awful!

Also once overheard a sweet looking elderly lady on a train talking with her friends and saying, "you know me I am never one to judge. But I will say she's an arsehole- cos she is."

Years ago I was at the bus stop outside a hospital. A heavily pregnant woman was raging with her partner, shouting I can't believe you have given me an STD. I didn't know what way to look.

Not scandalous but once at Bank tube station I was walking behind two young guys and one of them said, in an incredulous tone, "so my Dad's wife is, like, my STEPMOTHER".

Oh I remembered another one. I think I've posted it before. I was with my mum in her car and we were queuing to exit a car park. The car in front wasn't moving although the exit was clear. It became clear that the couple in the car were having a very intense row, lots of gesticulating. Then the woman, who was driving, leant across the man, opened the passenger door and shoved him out. The odd thing was that he had no trousers on just underpants. Then she threw the trousers out of the window and drove off. There must have been a lot of loose change in the pockets because it went all over the road and the bloke was scrabbling around in his pants trying to pick it up. No idea of the story behind it.

One more - was once sitting next to a young woman on a train at the table seat. Two teenage lads directly opposite. She was having a long and loud phone call to a friend (I presume) about all the blokes who were after her. I don't know how to put this nicely but seemed a bit delusional. So she was saying she "pulled" a bloke last week and had planned to meet up with him but then at the weekend she had "pulled again at my grandads 70th birthday" and didn't know who to choose. The teenage lads faces were contorted with trying not to laugh and that set me off and I had to pretend I was having a coughing fit. I think it was the idea of pulling at grandads birthday party which was so surreal.

i was once at an evening trade party for lots of companies in my line of work. It was free alcohol and food so very lively! I went to the loo and was sat in the cubicle when the door banged and I heard an ex colleague who moved to a more senior position for a competitor announcing very loudly “well which one of you doesn’t like me then?” Stunned silence then I could hear her team (who were in a group I presume by the sinks) mumbling and making excuses! She then went into a torrent of abuse about each of them, telling them her way was the right way and They could fuck off if they don’t want to work with her! I could hear her going around the group saying “is it you” “or you” very aggressively!!! I was so shocked as she was known for being feisty but at a party??? In a public place?? And who talks to colleagues like that or anyone ?? I tried to record it to play to my colleagues but it didn’t work! I had to sit there for a while as i didn’t want anyone to see me coming out!!

Mine is so cringe.

This was a work team Finance WhatsApp group. Manager goes missing, we assume she's gone for a wee. Everyone's phone beeps at the same time. We all look after the first person to see the message gasps. Manager has sent a picture of her fanny to the team group.

She then walks back into the open plan office, sees everyone looking at their phone agog. She then looks at her message and realises what she's done. She goes to her desk, packs her stuff up and leaves the building, never to be seen again. I still feel nervous just writing about it!

Omg

More sad than juicy. I was on a train going from one northern city to another and got on part way through.
There was a young mum with her baby who was desperately trying to, and eventually did, contact her dad to meet her at the other end of the line.
She had been for a relatively routine appointment with her young baby and had got some horrendous news about limited life expectancy.
As soon as she got off the phone I asked if I could help her in anyway and she just asked me to talk to her about anything else in the world until the next station.
So I just babbled non stop about random things like the weather whilst this lovely baby just gurgled away happily on her lap.
Got off the train waving to them both and very selfishly burst into tears when I hoped they were out of sight.

I’d have to change my name and move to New Zealand.

We had two people in our organisation with the same name - one was a chief finance officer, one was in an entirely unrelated department and much, much lower down the business hierarchy.

junior chap was once sent an entire contract, with all financial details, about another firm we were hush hush attempting to takeover! I managed the junior person, and he brought it to me for advice.

I'm just amazed it didn’t happen more often.

I was shopping in a new city about twenty years ago and passed a man on his phone saying, " It is two days to the wedding and now you are saying you do not want to marry me?!" I passed him again a few hours ago and things had clearly escalated: " Give me one good reason why I should not blow your fucking head off".

Sat in a cafe on Capri, and a very loud woman next to us was chatting to a very patient waiter about how ridiculous it was that she had to get a boat to the ISLAND and the she didn't understand why there weren't any direct roads from Sorrento or Naples to it as it would just be much easier.

He kept looking at us in total confusion, but we were too busy laughing at her outrage to be much help.

A confusing one. My newish next-door neighbour was having coffee in her garden with another woman and I was decorating and listening to their conversation just by default. They were reminiscing about their younger days when one said, "no, he's MY Dad but he's YOUR Uncle." I just cannot make that make sense in my mind. Why would they need to clear up the exact relationship, how would it be a mystery?

Bloody hell his phone bill's going to be massive.

Not me but was at my hairdressers the other week who was telling me she’d looked out of her shop window to see a couple having sex at in the flat above the shop over the road. She could see the man’s backside going up & down and the woman’s legs in the air but no faces. Apparently the 2 women in the hairdressers at the time thought it was hilarious entertaining for a random afternoon.

Many long years ago, me a newly engaged girl, was visiting fiancés family, everyone was there.
One of his older sisters nicely asked me what we would like for a wedding present. A quick think, and I said, we don’t have an iron yet.
I then had to go to the bathroom.
i came back to hear … an iron! Who does she think she is.

Oh no that's awful. Poor woman. I'm hoping you talking to her helped a bit.

A friend of mine is having an affair. She thinks I don’t know and has never mentioned it to me. She accidentally sent me a message about leaving her husband, but instantly deleted it and when I asked about it, she said she was helping a friend word a message.

Oh also, at work, someone accidentally blind copied me into an email where they were asking a friend to ring and say there was an emergency, so that they could leave work early. Said friend did ring, and there was some top acting on my colleague’s part as she rushed out to cope with the “emergency”.

We once received a letter from a prison doctor, detailing a prisoner's release date, the address to which he would be released, and all his medical history and prescriptions. It was meant to go to his GP, but it was addressed to 'The Doctors' with our street name and postcode, and the postie had assumed it was us because we both have PhDs and get official post addressed to Dr X TDM and Dr Y TDM, and it was in an ordinary handwritten envelope so we just opened it. There's no doctor's surgery anywhere near our street, so I don't know where the prison had got our address from. I rang the prison to let them know that they'd had a slight confidentiality breach and they nearly had kittens! In the end, they told us to shred it, but they were quite worried about what we were going to do about it.

I've told this one before on here a few times, and it's not particularly interesting or shocking - but it is very puzzling! It still perplexes me many years later!

Two women in the FRUIT AND VEG (that bit is very important!) aisle of the supermarket:

Woman 1: That's a strange place for the tomatoes isn't it?

Wiman 2: Yes it is.

I mean - why?! Why is the fruit and veg aisle a strange place to keep your fruit and veg? It's one of the great unsolved mysteries of my (obviously very unexciting) life!

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