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To be disgusted..

33 replies

Pickles77 · 31/07/2012 11:59

I am so angry with this man.
I'm sat in a waiting room waiting for a counselling appointment & there's a man in the waiting room on his phone arranging to see his mistress!!
The conversation is so loud I can hear both sides Of the convo.
What's made me so bloody angry is the fact that he's like showing the fact off! Like hes bragging and proud!

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puds11 · 31/07/2012 12:02

Make a loud fake call arranging a hitman for your 'cheating' DH. See how he responds to that

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 31/07/2012 12:03

Have you picked up his wife's name from the conversation? If you have, pretend to make a phone call and say "X? Hi. I just saw your husband and you'll never guess what he was doing. I'll be round in an hour to tell you all about it"

DawnOfTheDee · 31/07/2012 12:04

What PomBear said.

Pickles77 · 31/07/2012 12:13

Bloody vile. Well dressed bloke and well spoken. Hed need more than counselling if I wasn't pregnant and managed to get my hands on him!!

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WorraLiberty · 31/07/2012 12:13

Why are you angry with him, do you know him or anything about his life?

YANBU to be pissed off with loud telephone convos of any sort though

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 31/07/2012 12:16

Agree with Worra. You cannot tell everything about someone from one phone conversation.

But loud phonecalls, especially in waiting rooms are very annoying.

Pickles77 · 31/07/2012 12:19

Oh very annoying loud call.

I might not know him but when he was being so vile about the woman he married & talking about their children like they are a burden and speaking about 'all the things he's going to do to her later' in a hotel room I'm sure you'd all find it very hard not to pull your judgey pants up.
I find it particularly angering having been cheated on myself and still being a believer in true love.
So no right now i am sorry but my judgey pants are wedged! Grin

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tuckchop · 31/07/2012 12:34

In the army long ago. A Captain would ring his wife and say. "Called to a meeting tonight darling" On his own admission he was screwing his secretary in a hotel

Floggingmolly · 31/07/2012 12:38

Is it relationship counselling? Why is he there by himself, I wonder?

Justme23 · 31/07/2012 12:39

How do you think the psych waiting to see him feels?

It is so difficult to be impartial sometimes. Especially when sometimes its clear shouting YOUR LIFE IS SHIT BECAUSE YOU ARE A MASSIVE BELL END through a loudspeaker is really the only treatment your "patient" needs.

Smile and be thankful that though things are tough sometimes, you are not him.

Pickles77 · 31/07/2012 12:40

My counselling was just me... He
Was alone so I'm not sure. Maybe it was was for sex addiction Hmm he certainly seemed rather too loud and proud for my liking

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DizzyKipper · 31/07/2012 12:40

Fair enough, enjoy those wedgy judgy pants, I'm sure I'd be the same.

JumpingThroughHoops · 31/07/2012 12:48

Ah but!

Maybe he was roll playing with his wife and he in fact meeting his wife in a hotel room!

Maybe he's having an affair because his wife is getting a deuce from her tennis coach.

Maybe he was having a pretend phone call because he likes to shock people

Or maybe he's giving his paramour a right good rogering and doesn't care who knows it

Pickles77 · 31/07/2012 12:52

jumping okay one accepts your points Grin

Wink
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lovebunny · 31/07/2012 13:01

just commit his face to memory. when you see him in town etc, look closely at the woman with him. that will be enough to alert her.

a middle aged man and woman used to snog disgustingly at the railway station before 7am each morning, then he'd go off in his car. before you say 'aww, they were in love', well they might have been but she wasn't his wife. he was regularly in town with the mrs. a quick, surprised glance at seeing him with a woman other than his mistress was quite enough for the wife to go for him...'what does that look mean?' . the daybreak slurping stopped.

GiserableMitt · 31/07/2012 14:18

Years ago I shared an office with a guy who was boffing one of the cleaners.

He lived elsewhere so would only be home weekends. First thing in the morning I'd hear him make reservations for a table for two for that evening then hang up and immediately make another call to his wife. I'd hear in a sugary childish voice, "Morning Darling, how are you? how did you sleep?" and so on. Creep Grin

Pickles77 · 31/07/2012 14:24

giserable Gor he sounds a right catch Angry

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/07/2012 14:29

How do you glean so much information from one encounter with this man? I know if it were me, I'd be so wrapped up in what I was going to talk about that the content of somebody else's conversation wouldn't register other than loud 'white noise'.

Keep your cherry out, don't mind other peoples' business.

Pickles77 · 31/07/2012 14:31

lying the man couldn't have got louder even with the aid of a megaphone

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 31/07/2012 14:38

I got that, Pickles, I have loud people around me sometimes - but I tune them out. Very useful to be able to do that.

Floggingmolly · 31/07/2012 14:39

He wasn't exactly keeping "all that information" to himself, Lying
In fact, he was probably a sad bastard who hasn't got anywhere close to a woman for the last 15 years, getting some kick out of letting complete strangers think he has two on the go. Why else would you feel the need to put on such a performance in public?

Mindyourownbusiness · 31/07/2012 14:43

I would start stretching and yawning and pretend to even nod off personally. Take away his audience and his thunder completely. Or headphones/earplugs in would be good too if you have any !

bringbacksideburns · 31/07/2012 14:46

You should have said "Next time bring a meagaphone. I didn't catch nearly all of the details of your entire life."

I cannot stand loud gobshites on phones.

Mindyourownbusiness · 31/07/2012 15:15

bringbacksideburns Grin

Reminds me of the time my dad in his seventies went in the bank and the female clerk was speaking in that very patronising loud manner , emphasising every syllable seperately - making the presumption that as he was old he must be either deaf as a post or daft as a brush or both - about his 2p unauthorised 'overdraft' that had incurred him charges.

He waited patiently till she finished broadcasting and then said whilst pointing to the back of the long queue waiting :

'Could you repeat all that love, only this time speak up a bit, the chap right at the back couldnt quite hear all my business'

Grin
GiserableMitt · 31/07/2012 15:20

Pickles he was vile. He was obsessed with tits, and in the same way dogs sniff arses, I'm sure he recognised the female employees by their tits.

He used to buy a Belgian bun from the sandwich delivery lady every day but used to call them "Booby buns"

When I left he actually said to me "I'll miss not having your boobs to look at every day".