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

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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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HarrietSchulenberg · 29/09/2017 00:10

Other way round here. I once had a very difficult phone conversation with a more senior member of staff from another department who was very snotty with me about a matter that was not my fault. After I'd put the phone down I launched into a full-on, outraged, slag-off of her to my colleagues in the office. Only I'd not put the phone down properly and when I went to make another call, 5 mins later, she was still on the line. I put the phone down quickly and fortunately my boss was too busy (and knew the other woman well enough to know she was a difficult madam at the best of times) to bother responding.

HarrietSchulenberg · 29/09/2017 00:17

I also overheard a girl at school, in the toilets, telling her friend that if she had a face as spotty as mine she wouldn't be seen out in public. I'd just had two weeks off with chickenpox (at 17!) and was only just well enough to come back. I swept out of my cubicle, told them that I might be spotty but at least I wasn't thick enough not to check who was listening before I started bitching, washed my hands and sashayed out. Yaay, go me (for once).

CakeOffBakeOff · 29/09/2017 00:19

A man say to a woman (I assume his partner) who had fallen over in the street "get up you fucking drunk slag" whilst turning to walk away and making no move to help her.

chipmonkey · 29/09/2017 00:24

Got a phone call from BIL and answered it only to realise he had rung me by accident and was unaware that I could hear him. Overheard a long, nasty racist rant that he would never have had in my presence because he knows how I feel about that kind of talk. Haven't spoken to him since.

MrsFoxPlus4 · 29/09/2017 00:36

I had a lady in my salon doing fillers, she rented a room for about 6 months. I was sorting paperwork at the reception desk and she was on the phone to someone saying “my mouths proper numb, I’ll be giving you alsorts of sloppy blowjobs with these new lips” 😂😭

MmmmmmmChips · 29/09/2017 00:41

I have quite a lot of medical conditions and overheard my dad liken me to a house where the scaffolding was dodgy.

Badweekjustgotworse · 29/09/2017 01:17

I once had an issue with one of my lecturers at uni and had emailed my mum for advice on how to compose an email to the lecturer to explain that i needed more support with a situation I was in.

My mum was also a lecturer at the same uni and emailed me back some great advice and wording which I copied and pasted. I was interrupted halfway through editing the email and went to save it, but accidentally hit send.... I sent the fucking thing to the bloody lecturer I was having issues with, with my mums words half edited which ended with the line, 'she's a bitch though and everyone has issues with her so dont worry about it.' the second I hit that button I KNEW id sent it to her.... she never responded and it was never mentioned (she was a bitch though, mum had her pegged!)

Twoo · 29/09/2017 04:01

AVirtuousLife are you the thread police. We do t need nannying thank you very much. We are all consenting adults Grin

Twoo · 29/09/2017 04:02

Don't

Minxmumma · 29/09/2017 07:43

Errr my Mother slagging me off to my Dad about everything from how I raise my kids, to my appearance, relationship with my partner all while I was going through cancer treatment.

No ones perfect and I certainly am not but neither is she but it was easier for her to cope with my diagnosis by slagging me off.

I am an only child and she 'forgot' to hang up after a phone call and proceeded to have this conversation while I could hear it all. She twigged when she went to ring someone else and realised I had heard it all.

Lesson learnt. Sadly. We still spend time together but I am always cautious with what I share.

WhoPoppedMyBalloon · 29/09/2017 07:56

2 hour train journey sitting next to a man and woman who started talking to each other because they were sitting opposite. The man's wife had just had a baby and was staying with her parents for the first few weeks to get some help. He bitched non-stop about her, her parents and how badly done to he was. The woman sat there nodding in agreement with him, commiserating with how badly he was being treated and how he deserved better. By the end of the journey they had arranged to meet up for a date.
I had to listen to the whole disgusting thing and I still wonder if I should have said something.

CantThinkOfAUserNameNotTaken · 29/09/2017 22:26

I hope she's not pregnant on my hen do. From a friend about a mutual friend who was going through ivf.

buckeejit · 29/09/2017 23:15

Shit, people are awful. Sorry for all your crap times. The only one that can be helped though is buck beak. Please LTB

cockneylass · 30/09/2017 03:44

I overheard my husband having sex with a prostitute. He had accidentally drunk dialled me in his pocket and I heard him speak to a pimp, arrange a girl, pay, fuck her, thank her and leave. The pimp had asked my Husband if he wanted the girl to come to his hotel. Husband said no because my Wife is there sleeping. The entire call was about 40 minutes. 15 minutes after the call ended he arrived at our hotel room. I was 5 months pregnant. He actually denied it initially! Worst and longest night of my life.

SuffolkBumkin · 30/09/2017 04:22

cockneylass Shock That's terrible. What did you do?

Broken11Girl · 30/09/2017 05:43

As a teen. 'D'M on phone, sister had been accused of bullying at school. Oh no, of course sister hadn't done it, she was lovely. Funny, sister bullied me so I suspect she did. If it had been me accused M would have believed it and hung me out to dry. She hates me and thinks I would do anything evil, sisters are golden perfect children.

Broken11Girl · 30/09/2017 05:50

Also 'sisters in law' bitching about me at sister's wedding, was in the toilet, sadly didn't have the guts to do as pp did but just stayed in there.

lizzieoak · 30/09/2017 05:57

When my dd was 7 her teacher had her ring home as dd had forgotten to tell me she needed a costume for a dress rehearsal of the Christmas pageant (teachers at the school optimistically believed 7 years would convey all messages home). So dd rang me and spoke to me then forgot to hang up. So I got to listen to the teacher (who normally have the impression butter wouldn't melt) shrieking at a bunch of 7 year olds about how crap their singing and memorization was & how they were all embarrassing her. And people wonder why I'm wary of teachers (well, that and my own horrid 13 years of school).

WingsofNylon · 30/09/2017 06:51

The absolute worst I've heard I can't repeat in here just yet as it is part of a formal grievance investigation at work.

The second worst is this. I was in a bus a g years ago and sitting begin two young women. I'd guess at 17-19.

Girl one: I had my whole fanny waxed earlier so it is still a bit sore.
Girl Two: When I get mine done i ask them to leave a bit of hair round my arse for the fart issue.
Girl One: umm, what?
Girl Two: You know, when there is no hair to break them up? If I fart and I'm hairless instead of coming out the fart slips forward through my lips and into my vagina. So I and up with farts in my fanny. That must happen to you?
Girl One and I have no words!

Bloke1976 · 30/09/2017 07:21

Sat in a pub and watched this unfold in front of me.

A group of people (regulars) were in. 2 of the group were a couple. All seemed well. On this day the man of the couple came in angry.. his friends were trying to calm him down. The woman came in and the man was twitching for an argument. Then he flipped.

He started shouting, calling her a slut. It turns out he had been shown a video at work of a woman entertaining a group of men. The woman in question was his partner. She then claimed it was years before - to which he said " no it wasn't, you'd had your hair done, I remember you going out to get your hair done..."

Turns out she'd agreed to take part in this act.. for a bag of coke. They were eventually removed and barred from the pub.

rumbelina · 30/09/2017 07:23

Wings - GrinGrin

That's a new one on me and that's saying something!

BroomHandledMouser · 30/09/2017 08:50

Oh @buckbeak Flowers

What a fucking arsehole

swinkle · 30/09/2017 09:19

I used to argue with my parents as a teenager, and after one argument that I no longer remember I heard my mother say to my father, "I'll give her a slap next time, that'll give her something to really be a bitch about". I actually overheard her saying awful things about me many, many times over the years. I now always find myself expecting to hear other people talking about me like that.

swinkle · 30/09/2017 09:22

And another time at work (call centre) I overheard a colleague say of a customer that she had just been dealing with, "he's been suicidal for two years, not doing a very good job of it is he?" I've never changed my opinion of someone so fast.

OooohHorlicks · 30/09/2017 09:24

I was sitting on a train, eight months pregnant with DC1. Next to me must have been what I can only assume were two trainee midwives. They were comparing stories about birthing. Fine except the stories they were comparing were about babies who had died or ended up in ICU. In graphic detail. They had both seen me - couldn't miss that bump.

One had the good grace to look ever so slightly uncomfortable when the conversation turned to operations on newborns but the other one kept going. She shot me one sly look which confirmed to me that she knew what she was doing but after that never acknowledged me again. I would normally call someone on something like that - especially if it were happening to someone else - but I felt so vulnerable at the time I just didn't know what to do or say. Awful.