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To ask what's the worst thing you've overheard?

194 replies

caringdenise009 · 28/09/2017 19:47

Mine has to be the long loud argument between my neighbours about anal sex. It went on for 15 hours. Such gems as her screaming at him " anyone who wants to fuck a woman up the arse must be a fucking poof anyway". She had her period and wasn't in the mood. All at the top of their voices. For 15 hours. Charming.

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twee1 · 28/09/2017 22:33

buck that is so sad - don't know what else to say

twee1 · 28/09/2017 22:34

disinterested how did people in the charity shop respond - that is awful

AVirtuousLife · 28/09/2017 22:36

SlothMama - whilst it may not be the OPs fault that the DM might pick this up my warning still stands.

That's what my post was... a warning.

If you don't mind seeing your posts in the DM then that's fine.

I'm just alerting posters to the fact that sensitive posts might end up on the DM website.

Worriedrose · 28/09/2017 22:37

@buckbeak
Flowers
Christ I hope you're not with him now x

khanbal · 28/09/2017 22:38

Went on family with whole family and stayed in a Villa. I should say DH family so his brothers their wives and his sister and her husband. Walked in on them obviously talking about me/us? Because they all went quiet and started acting really nice offering me stuff- and older sis in law tried to make it look like she wasn't talking about us and started saying oh yeah and 'she' yeah 'she' erm she went to the shop and they all looked at her like shut the fuck up - you've totally been found out.

My SiLs are weird!

buckbeak · 28/09/2017 22:39

Didn't get rid of him, still together. And he's not got better unfortunately.

I just don't have the confidence to leave him, I'm use to it all now.

Worriedrose · 28/09/2017 22:42

Oh love
@buckbeak
I don't even know you and I know you deserve more. You deserve to be with someone who treats you with care and love

mathanxiety · 28/09/2017 22:42

I used to come downstairs in the morning at exMIL's house, or walk into the kitchen, to find exH and exMIL deep in conversation that would stop the minute I appeared in the doorway. We didn't visit often, so it might have been three or four times over the course of a few years that I encountered this. I later found out what he had been telling her and how she would lap it all up and encourage it, as well as contribute her own criticisms of me, including the fact that I breastfed. While we were getting divorced, exMIL sent exH a copy of an article she had printed out on OCD. Apparently it is not acceptable to keep a file folder of interesting or funny drawings your children have done.

mathanxiety · 28/09/2017 22:43

Buckbeak, start off by doing one thing for yourself every week. Then get counseling.

Flowers
lalalalyra · 28/09/2017 22:44

Rangers supporters on Saturday afternoon racially abusing random black people downtown in Glasgow. I know this goes on but was horrified to witness it. Funnily enough the teenagers behind me on the train were rangers supporters too. Scummy bastards (though I’m sure there are some normal ones too).

Racism becoming acceptable on old firm day is the reason I don't follow football now.

We lived in Glasgow when I was 12-17. I had a season ticket at Ibrox, but I wasn't allowed to attend an old firm game until I was 16. My seat was surrounded by a good bunch of people, they always looked out for me and I was looking forward to my first old firm match. Right up until the point that the 'lovely' man in front of me started making monkey noises at a black player. His black friend who he attended with laughed at my outrage because "it's not serious, it's just old firm day". In the second half someone behind me made a comment about raping a player's wife and his girlfriend laughed. I sold my season ticket for the rest of the season to the lad next door and I've never set foot in Ibrox since. It was truly vile just how little morality they had during that match.

frieda909 · 28/09/2017 22:45

I was being bullied at school as a teenager and didn't have any friends for a while. It was a really horrible time. At some point during this time I was having a row with my mum, as teenagers are wont to do, and I ended up storming off up to my room.

As I went upstairs I heard her say to my dad 'God, no wonder she doesn't have any friends' Sad

I was absolutely gutted. I know she didn't really mean it but god it hurt to hear!

DeadButDelicious · 28/09/2017 22:46

Oh buckbeak, I'm so very sorry for your loss.

You deserve so much better than him.

thenettyprofessor · 28/09/2017 22:47

fuck them, aimed at me when someone ran at me with a knife

Lobsterquadrille2 · 28/09/2017 22:48

My DF telling my DM that I had brought shame on the family by being a single parent and was not welcome in their house. Ex H had left when I was pregnant (planned) and I'd intended to return to the UK, but after that I stayed overseas.

HeyMicky · 28/09/2017 22:50

My PILs-to-be telling DH-to-be to cancel the engagement. In case I turned out like my (admittedly incredibly hard work) mother. I was devastated

Since then his siblings have been a bloody nightmare and I have been an exemplary daughter in law with lovely children.

So nyah nyah nyah

DontDrinkDontSmoke · 28/09/2017 22:53

lalalalyra

I was called a “taig” by some brave rangers fans shouting from across the road on Saturday evening at 2 females the wrong side of 40 and an elderly man. I’m not from Glasgow nor am I a Celtic fan and had to Google it.

JonSnowsWife · 28/09/2017 22:53

My 'friends' took me for a spa day out after becoming a new mum. I fell asleep as I was that relaxed.

I started stirring to the sound of them talking about how I should have had an termination for various different reasons (I'd been given a place at a prestigious uni and turned it down upon discovering I was pg - they also all knew I'd been told I couldn't have any DCs). We drifted apart as the years went on but to this day the two I've remained friends with have no idea I heard them that day.

DD is now a strappingly tall very sassy pre-teen. So I must have done something right! Grin

girlandboy · 28/09/2017 22:57

A friend's grandmother was reminiscing and I overheard her say "oh yes, girlandboy was a MOST unattractive child". I'm not saying I was a pretty girl, but I wasn't that bad Confused
That comment has stuck with me for 35 years.

AtSea1979 · 28/09/2017 22:58

Overhead colleagues on my 30th birthday.
"AtSea's 30 today" "No way I thought she was in her forties". Blush

raspberrysuicide · 28/09/2017 23:09

When I was about 15 my parents split up. My mum moved into a tiny little flat with her much younger boyfriend and my dad stayed in our house.
My mum asked my best friends patents if I could stay there while it was getting sorted out.
One day I heard her mum moaning at her saying I had been there for too long and my mum hasn't given them any money.
I left a couple of days later. It was horrible

makeithappy · 28/09/2017 23:25

Over heard my FIL telling my DH - put her in her place ! If she doesn't like it leave Angrysee how she likes being a single mum to 4 kids !!

winglesspegasus · 28/09/2017 23:38

great aunt telling gfather i was a whore because 1st dh and i figured out after 3 months of marriage we were too young and seperated.
first time i ever went ballistic on an"elder".

TheAtlanticWatch · 28/09/2017 23:50

Some really sad stories here.

I overheard two charming men on a train discussing what a fuss one of their partners was making about MC. I was just returning to work after a MC. It did not help.

On a lighter note, DM once failed to hang up properly after I phoned and I could hear her complaining to DF about how difficult I was to get off the phone. I'd rung to wish her happy christmas and the call had lasted about 2 minutes. I now take great delight in ensuring phonecalls are as protracted and awkward as possible.

ElizabethDarcey · 28/09/2017 23:55

Man on the train having a conversation and ending with, 'Right, I'd better go because we've just pulled into Newcastle'. We were in Sussex.

Woman in the 'parents' bit at a regular dance class for our DCs telling her friend blow by blow about the breakdown of her marriage and subsequent divorce every week. We'd all sit there in silence and listen to her talking to her friend every single week. She was so loud - and so annoyingly me me me. After a few weeks of this I really wanted to say, 'I can TOTALLY see why your husband left you and if he is screwing the dogwalker I hope he's happier, because you're just HORRIBLE!'

Misspilly88 · 29/09/2017 00:09

Single dad with two mums at a play cafe all chatting. He was talking about his ex who was pregnant with new baby. Saying how she needed to get rid but she didn't want an abortion. One of the women starts on about how the clinic is not that bad, she'd had SO many it was like a f'ing day trip for her! This was all very loud as if it was some hilarious story that everyone should hear.
And I thought of all my friends with fertility problems who are so desperate for babies :(