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To ask for your interesting and shocking overheard conversation experiences?

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AlternativePerspective · 09/10/2019 09:38

On a train yesterday.

Three other people several rows in front having a very loud, and very explicit conversation. The girl using the f word like it was punctuation and going on about how when she got money on Friday she would be buying some weed because all she needed was a spliff. Shock then telling one of the blokes to be grateful because “Well I gave you two blowjobs yesterday so shut the fuck up.....”. Shock Shock. Man came by with a bike and one of the blokes shouting out to him that he was stealing his bike. He wasn’t and just ignored the bloke.

They were the types that IMO if you approached them you would be asking for trouble. I was both horrified and amused in equal measure...

I’ve come across all sorts on public transport but these were a revelation even to me. Grin.

So anyone else want to share their overheard conversation stories?

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Nearly47 · 10/10/2019 23:06

I was being interviewed for a job in a very male dominated field. Interviewer excused himself and a few minutes later I could hear him on the next room arguing my hiring with someone " She ticks all the boxes, etc... And the other man saying " But she is a woman..." repeatedly .

Skysky1 · 10/10/2019 23:08

At a bus stop on the way home from work I once overheard a woman (who looked like she was either drunk or an addict ) tell her elderly mum very loudly and in front of her child that looked no older than about 6,7
That she didn't want the little girl anymore , and that she didn't even care for her
I actually cried once I got home
It was very painful to be witness to
It was some years ago but that memory will always stay with me

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/10/2019 23:09

@Edda09

Ooh, interesting - now that I didn't know!

Shefliesonherownwings · 10/10/2019 23:23

Thought of another one. We overheard neighbours a few doors down arguing during the summer. It sounded like he'd locked her out and she was shouting at him to let her in so she could get her stuff. Next thing we heard:
Her: Take a look at yourself, you need a wash, you fucking stink.
Him: Your pussy stinks!

DH and I were killing ourselves laughing at that line. Grin

WouldDoItAgain · 11/10/2019 01:00

@morado was the train station in St Helens?

Verytubbycustard · 11/10/2019 01:09

I was in a toilet cubicle at a wedding. Woman 1 was at the sink outside. Woman 2 walked in. They clearly knew each other, may have been part of the bride's family or knew the family well. I only knew the groom.

Woman 1: isn't it a lovely wedding?
Woman 2: yes, not like the last one in bride's family.
Woman 1: I know what you mean, at least nobody's been arrested at this one yet!

Scratchyfluffface · 11/10/2019 01:34

@Bigmango aaaah Ralph! We must be the same age 😂

WiddlinDiddlin · 11/10/2019 02:29

Most of mine are me witnessing other people baffled at overhearing a snippet of something odd..

At a conference in Nottingham..

Speaker: 'So if you COULD check your bags, quietly, in case there are any owls in there...

Waiter who has just walked in.. Shock scuttles back out..

Event manager to me, in front of crowd of family oriented show attendees..

Him: 'Your zombies CANNOT wear branded tshirts, the main ring sponsors are not happy at all'

Me: 'Ok... that's fine, all 25 female zombies are happy to do the full 10 minute show topless...

Crowd : collective oooh

Him.... OH IM SURE THE TSHIRTS ARE FINE

Crowd: collective 'awww'.

travellinglighter · 11/10/2019 02:46

I was installing a generator at a travellers site and we had cables to turn up to the connection point. I approached the caravan nearest the generator and asked the lady there if she could make sure her kids didn’t play with them. I explained we’d protected them as best we could but any interference could be fatal. She turned to the eldest child and said “Seamus, stay away from those wires.” The precocious scamp replied “suck my cock.” She laughed.

msmith501 · 11/10/2019 03:24

I was on a train about ten years ago and heard a man speak to his about-to-give-birth wife on his phone, letting her know he's be at least two hours until he could be with as he's only just boarded the train (he was nearly at his destination). Then he called his mistress and let her know that he's got a free pass for two hours and couldn't wait to feel her lips on his cock.

... as with many mobile phone conversations, this was all carried out at full volume! His poor wife 😟

hagsrus0 · 11/10/2019 05:18

Young man in bookshop to girlfriend: "Tale of Two Cities", that's a good one.

Girlfriend: What two cities are they?

Young Man (pause): Well, I haven't actually read it...

Lincolnfield · 11/10/2019 07:37

On a train a few years ago and Ed Milliband got in the same carriage. A man in front of me recognised him and went and stood in the aisle going on to him about the political matters of the day. Ed M was very polite and listened to the man. All was going well until the man returned to his seat saying, ‘thanks for talking with me David.’ - This was at the time when the Milliband brothers were at daggers drawn over the labour leadership! Ouch!

Also, another time when we were on holiday, a bunch of very loud mouthed Americans were making fun of an old English man they had just been talking to and mocking his accent. One huge guy started laughing and saying’ he said he was English but I couldn’t understand a word he said’ - in his awful American twang. I was so angry, I reached up (he was about 6ft 5!) and tapped him on the shoulder. I said ‘You are the rudest people I’ve ever met and while you’re busy mangling OUR language, I just want to remind you it was OURS first!’ He had the grace to blush and apologise!

FayMac · 11/10/2019 08:30

Oh my goodness, my mum tells a story so similar to this, I think it must have been her who tried to sit at their table (on a busy train and that was her seat reservation).

FayMac · 11/10/2019 08:31

My comment was to @spiritslevel - sorry, new to posting!

Morado · 11/10/2019 08:41

@WouldDoItAgain no it was at a train station in Liverpool. He gets around 🤣

FayMac · 11/10/2019 08:56

There have been some crackers on public transport over the years, I should have written them down (and why is there always a woman in a ball gown crying on a night bus?!

2 women on a very early train to Oxford, W1 was trying to get W2 to remember an incident some years back. W2 only caught on when W1 said ‘you know, that time we had aubergine’

American woman who ranted on her phone to a friend from home who barely got to say a thing. She had recently moved to London for work and hated everything - especially the shitty area work we’re paying for her to rent a flat. She got off the bus in Chelsea, near Sloane Square. Towards the end she said ‘And he said I was high maintenance, you know I’m not high maintenance, don’t you?’ Long pause.... ‘well I don’t think I am’

Anxietyandwine · 11/10/2019 09:27

I used to live in a maisonette and once heard the couple above arguing.. I could hear every single word even though they weren’t shouting, she was complaining he never wanted to have sex anymore and asked repeatedly ‘when was the last time you even fingered me’ Blush

Becca19962014 · 11/10/2019 10:34

Overheard in canteen in work over twenty years ago (99% of employees were male) "look if you want to employ her, fine, but you can pay for the toilet" and stormed off Confused

buttonz · 11/10/2019 10:42

I've never forgotten a nasty man screaming at his little girl to piss off in Islington High Street in 1998 Sad

TessTackle · 11/10/2019 10:43

Place marking

StressedOutTosser · 11/10/2019 10:54

I was at a work event sitting in front of these two women who were having a conversation about a drunken night when they were on the pull. I could only get snippets as the room was quite noisy with everyone talking.

Anyway, the speaker at this event (very senior, very well-respected, very conservative and formal) walked in and everyone else went quiet but these women didn't see the speaker enter so carried on talking. Just as the room went silent, one woman went (verbatim):
"He started diarrhea-ing and his cock went all floppy"

The other woman burst out laughing in a dirty Barbara Windsor-style cackle.

I don't know how I kept a straight face.

Shiteshiteshite · 11/10/2019 11:05

@MayorMumbum the nurse wouldn't be able to say anything because of confidentiality. Im a nurse and been in and seen similar situations and think its horrible for the unknowing partner but we gotta be non judgemental and all that shit x

Limth · 11/10/2019 11:08

I was in a park and found myself walking next to a bloke but we were separated by a hedge.

He was trying to get his kid to hurry up saying things like "will you hurry up you little bastard?", "I don't have all day, some of us actually have work to do", "if you don't get a fucking move on, I'll leave you here to live in park forever".

He was saying this all very jokingly and in a light tone of voice but I didn't like the content of what he was saying or that he was swearing at the child.

Anyway, when I reached the end of the path, I peered around the hedge to find it was a curious toddler but a clearly very well-loved Yorkshire Terrier dressed in a Barbour jacket Grin

mummmy2017 · 11/10/2019 11:12

I just had my first OMG moment on a bus.
Teen was playing a Switch and a child was looking over the seat at what he was doing.
When the teen went to get off the bus the mum of the child held out her hand and said can I have the Switch please.
The teen looked at her and said no you can't it belongs to me.
He then hurried off the bus.

StressedOutTosser · 11/10/2019 11:36

In a toilet cubicle, overheard two women....

W1: Errrgh, what did it look like?
W2: Like a bit of salami
W1: What did you say... where the fuck's the rest of it?
W2: Nothing, I just fucked him
W1: You FUCKED him? I thought you were just gonna suck him off because it was only your second date
W2: Yeah but there's no way I could've had that thing in my gob. It was all bumpy. In my fanny's alright though
W1: Will you see him again?
W2: No way, I'll find a man with a proper dick.
W1: Was he Jewish, he might be rich?
W2: No he wasn't. He was just missing half his dick
W1: No excuse for that.
W2: Exactly. His family's obviously a wrong 'un so I don't want to get involved.

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