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.

Ewwww!! Is that a regular thing??

Tempting to have replied ‘since he’s so crap, perhaps you mixed us both up when you gave him the job instead of me’ 🤣🤣🤣

@RicherThanYews you have to watch the episode of Are You Being Served where Mrs Slocombe thinks she is talking to her cat on the answerphone and she’s dialled her neighbour by mistake “is he playing with his ball” … 😂😂😂😂

When my grandmother passed away, I contacted her solicitor to let them know and sort out the will. That was all fine. But then about 10 years later I received a large envelope from them addressed to my grandmother. It was a contract for her to sign agreeing to let them handle "her" divorce and assets of the marriage, which were several properties and businesses they listed in great detail. Obviously a mistake. I contacted them and told them. They apologised and told me to destroy the document. That was fine.

Then a month later I received the next instalment of this stranger's divorce - "As per our telephone conversation on <date>..." and copies of correspondences from the ex's solicitor, both people's finances etc. I contacted the solicitor again and left a message with the receptionist. No one contacted me this time. So I just said fuck it and made a mental note to never recommend that solicitor practice.

It happened twice more after that and then it finally stopped. I'm guessing someone finally realised. I would love to know if the woman was billed for the times when she didn't receive anything from them. I was tempted to let her know about the data breach but decided to stay out of it because I'm sure she was stressed enough as it was. It sounded like a very volatile divorce.

I have remembered another…

I was in my early 20s at a works Christmas do, the kind where lots of companies buy tables. I was in the toilet and overheard a group of women from another company comparing notes on Dave. It seems they had all slept with Dave from the office. Lots of detail about his size and technique.

Went back to my table and told the others, all of us wondering which one he was. We decided to shout ‘Dave’ whenever a guy walked past and we struck gold! Poor bloke turned round and just saw a table of strangers laughing! He hardly looked the office heartthrob either.

I was once on a train. It was stuck outside London for half an hour due to an incident on the line!

The elderly man sitting behind me was getting annoyed. He snapped at his wife "I can't believe I missed the ukulele conference for this"

I really wanted to know more

@weekfour I just relayed your story to DH and he laughed so much I thought he was going to choke! He still keeps chortling to himself ten minutes later!

When I was a teenager our next door neighbour was having an affair with our postman, he would drive his car onto her drive and she would open the garage door so he could drive in and no one would notice the car, except as this was happening almost daily for months my parents noticed! One day we came home to see her husband was throwing her clothes out of an upstairs window and they preceeded to have a shouting match in the front garden. It was very awkward as I had to continue regularly babysitting their young children!

Several years ago we were on Eurostar and there was an elderly American couple across from us. As the train headed for the coast the female told the male ‘we should be on the beach soon’.

Eww. I would always assume any man who says this is shit in bed.

This sounds dreadful. Did you manage to great hold of the police to tell them the awful mistake they'd made?

I'm hoping they sent officers to her address anyway, as they didn't actually speak with her, to check she was safe. 🌹

I would have called the police

Busy 343 bus in London on a Fri night, quite late. Girl on the phone talking about her new bloke, v v loudly. "The sex was pretty good but I didn't risk anal after all that spicy curry".

Heard late one Saturday night when the bedroom window was open

'well it was just unexpected sex really'.

In a changing room in Las Vegas - broad Yorkshire accent saying 'it doesnt fit mum' mum replied 'just work your way into it love'. We laughed so hard.

I was once on a train sat behind a person who had been arrested in one city but had been taken to the other city and released after interview. He was on the phone constantly talking about what he had /hadn’t told the police and how stupid they were. At the destination city, the woman who had been sitting next to me re-arrested him. He was taken off the train by several others who I assume were police officers. She had been recording all of his conversation.

2 men in their late 60s or older sitting on the top of a bus. They were having quite an animated conversation but I remember picking out:

"Love? Love? That's nothing to do with love, you don't know what you mean by love. That's lust, that's what it is.
(Pause.)
(Softer). Mind you, I don't know a great deal about that either, now."

Years ago,I was at a Pony Club rally,and overheard one of the other mothers angrily discussing something on the phone with someone who definitely wasn't her husband,as she mentioned that they risked her husband finding out about their affair. Shortly afterwards,the husband marched up and had a Barney with her.
Last year,( so about 10 years after the first conversation) I'm in a queue for burgers at a charity cricket match,and the husband is behind me. I hear someone greet him,they ask how each other are,ect.ect. Then husband breezily announced that "he'd been done for criminal damage,again"!😮 Sadly,my turn to be served came before I could find out more,and it was his wife who served me my burger. Never a dull moment in that family.

I worked with a guy, let's call him Brian for anonymity purposes, a lovely bloke, incredibly helpful and we sat next to each other for 5 years.

Covid and lockdown happened so we were all WFH. Come 2022 and we were due to start heading back to the office by mid-year. Around Easter, we got an email saying that Brian had left to pursue a different career in a different company.

Fast forward to us doing a couple of days in the office. I was supposed to be at home one day but was having connection issues. As the office is only 20 minutes walk from my house, I headed there. I entered the office and the only one there was one of our managers who was on a Teams call with her back to me.

I only heard one side of the conversation but it was about Brian and how he had done absolutely no work for the previous 2 years WFH but had lied and lied and tried to blame his lack of productivity on others as well as doctoring records to try and cover his tracks.

I tip-toed away and waited until the call was over before making my presence known.

Every so often someone will fondly remember Brian and I keep my opinions firmly to myself.

You jumped up hussy, you!

This really made me laugh! Do you respond to the messages and give your opinions? I would!

When I was about 20 in the 1990s my BF won a voucher to a really upmarket restaurant. We were so excited and planned for weeks, what i would wear or eat etc,. It was quiet enough but we sat near a table of 3, 2 men and a woman. It became apparent one of the men was a marriage counsellor. He spoke loudly although the couple were trying to keep it down. Things like 'I hear resentment', 'can you move past this', 'learn to love yourself', 'fulfillment' etc. We were bursting laughing the whole time. Probably not that unusual these days but back then and at that age we thought it was hilarious.

I overheard my DH (now ex) telling his friends that he has no idea how the hell he ended up married, it just sort of happened, almost against his will!

Just remembered this.... my mother had a small business in a town about 30kms from our nearest city. When I was in my 20s my BF lived in this city but worked in another city and often travelled by train home to visit family. One day a customer of my mother's told her she had met my BF on the train and when my Mum asked a few questions it became apparent she had not 'met' him but had been seated beside him as she listened to every word he said. He obviously was talking about my family and she put two and two together. He was really embarrassed when I told him as was I. We never know what she overheard but I thought it was bad enough to listen in but to go telling someone was really inappropriate.

I found porn, porn searches and horrifyingly, naked photos of my female boss in compromising positions (I worked for a husband and wife business) on my work PC. Male boss didn't know how to clear the history clearly, or think to delete their intimate photos. Knowing them, you'd NEVER imagine them doing the stuff in the photos. Anyway, I can't reveal why I quit as it's incredibly outing, but it was shocking!

@ToxicChristmas for some reason I've immediately jumped to assuming you worked for Neil (I think that was his name) and Christine Hamilton!