To ask for your interesting and shocking overheard conversation experiences?

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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. then telling one of the blokes to be grateful because “Well I gave you two blowjobs yesterday so shut the fuck up.....”. . 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. .

So anyone else want to share their overheard conversation stories?

Ex police officer, once in plain clothes working I heard some lads standing in front of me planning a robbery (a serious one) that didn’t end well for them but the look on their faces was priceless!

I was sat in pharmacy whilst two guys were discussing a drugs drop, who, what, where, when the lot. When they left I went to phone the police and the big bloke next to me said "don't bother love" and disappeared after them. I worried about it but the staff told me it was fine.

Months later it was in the local paper - drug dealers plot drugs drop in front of off duty police officer.

On the train, sat at a table bc I work during the commute. Two women sat next to me + opposite and talked about their family situations. One talked at length about adoption regret. Basically she felt the older child they adopted was destroying their family, her marriage and her biological daughter's childhood, but at the same time she was all this abandoned, traumatised child had and she knew it. She cried. It was incredibly sad and made me feel heartbroken for everyone involved.

But it was also very strange that she got into this super detailed, intimate, intense conversation sitting shoulder to shoulder to a perfect stranger who didn't know where to look.

drawing that's happened to me before now. Going to Edinburgh from London by bus (yes I know) I had a woman sit next to me and tell me all about the utter bastard she was married to, really angry about him she was (everyone not knowing where to look) and then said he'd dropped dead two days before! She was going to Edinburgh to get her daughter to go to the funeral, her daughter had refused but she couldn't leave her in Scotland (she was a fresher, two weeks in), for a long time she had ranted about him being an utter, utter, bastard, then outside Birmingham (so over an hour of ranting) she just tells me he's dead, she's not slept since he died and how can she live without him. I was early 20s. Zero experience with this sort of thing, offered her my shoulder which she took literally and promptly fell asleep. When we got to Edinburgh she asked for my address and her daughter gave me a hug. Months later I got a massive bunch of flowers and a long letter thanking me. They both stay in contact. Her daughter is now a doctor.

Now we're friends but then I was a total stranger.

Her reason for telling me was she didn't know me, I didn't know her or him and I she just needed to let how she actually felt out. All she'd heard since his death was what a lovely bloke he was, when he was bascially like everyone else and she needed someone to just hear what a bastard he could be without the benefit of knowing he was dead and someone telling how lovely he was and awful it was for her. I never did those things I was too shocked!

So if you overhear things like that, that's probably why.

Same reason people post on MN I guess!

Went to a wedding with DH, someone he’d known at Uni, groom was extremely drunk came over to our table and started telling a girl on our table that ‘ just because he’s married now, didn’t mean things had to be over between them’ , I really couldn’t believe what I was hearing

@Prawnofthepatriarchy Maybe the suitcases is "comes with lots of baggage"? Chauffeur meaning 30 second shag sounds right.

I was visiting a friend in hospital. She wanted to ask the staff something, but none were in sight, so I went off along a corridor looking for someone.

I heard two voices coming from an open office door, evidently a senior nurse talking to a man. I went and hovered in the doorway, hoping I could politely interrupt to ask her my brief question. I wasn't really listening to what they were saying, till the man kept giving me uneasy, embarrassed glances. Then I realised they were discussing his forthcoming vasectomy!

The nurse showed no awareness whatever that he might want this discussed in private!

To spare the poor man's blushes I strolled away as quickly as I could.

Not really overheard but some time ago I was in a local town walking through an area under development (so hoardings up, drilling going on, bits of pavement cordoned off etc.). The pavement was quite narrow so I was very careful to keep out of people's way as it is an area where trouble can erupt easily. A man walked past me and said loudly "fuck off."
I'd said and done nothing other than pass by.

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A man walked past me and said loudly "fuck off."
I'd said and done nothing other than pass by.

Maybe he had touretts.

I heard some kids on the bus talking about how glue was made of dead horses so you shouldn't lick an envelope because you are licking a dead horse.

Interesting one at a school concert two people discussing (I think) their masseur and how much more relax he was now he was married and had had sex.

@WarmSausageTea why didn't you say anything?! You should have said something to that mother. No child should be spoken to like that. It WAS the right thing to do to say something. If the mother is like that in public then imagine what she's like in private. Its because no one says anything that people like that continue to be horrible to their kids in public without recourse.

@OneSliceIsNeverEnough
A girl at the toby carvery asked the waitress for a wine with soda.
The waitress asked her what colour wine.
The girl found this hilarious and recounted it to her friend as though the waitress was stupid- who drinks red wine with soda?!
Well, the Spanish.... a simpler and less touristy sangria
really???? OMG! i did not know this!! (might have to try it in the summer)

@mummmy2017
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.

i've seen stories like this on reddit, but never believed that anyone would actually do this!!! ( www.reddit.com/r/entitledparents/ and www.reddit.com/r/EntitledBitch/ )

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Many years ago, I was divorced, and a single female friend suggested we go to this 'club' as it was singles night. Seemed a jolly night out, and so off we went. Got to the venue, it was one of those motel type places, a Best Western or some such thing. We went in, got a drink and sat at a table in a corner, and then watched as a couple of men sat nearby. One got his phone out - 'yeah mate, just come in the main entrance, we are in the bar, take your ring off before you come in though'.
We were gobsmacked! One of the funniest nights out ever though...some of the women were clearly only there on the pick up...we just watched from a distance and went home early!

Once at work I heard a colleague describing in floods of tears how she was devastated that her 'boyfriend' wouldn't leave his wife. She went on to say she thought it was true love because "He let me sit on his face"

A woman was taking to her friend, from what I overheard, one woman was pissed off because the man from work she was seeing, was spending Christmas Day with his wife and kids.

I was staying overnight in a very old inn. Around midnight I was in bed, but my room backed onto a function room where a party was going on, so no chance of sleeping. My bed was against the wall, which was very thin. Some young men were evidently sitting on chairs backing onto the wall. I must have been only inches from them, and I could hear them as clearly as if I had been sitting among them. They were talking about brothels in Thailand.

I think these young blokes must have been pretty respectable - although they sounded fascinated by the subject, they also sounded shocked. One said “It's so easy over there!” in an incredulous sort of voice, and another said, “A mate of mine tried, but he lost his nerve.”

It was so weird being, in effect, an invisible woman sitting in their midst listening to it all.

Not me, but a Polish friend.

She was on the Underground in London and a Polish couple sitting opposite were having a full and frank discussion about her appearance... specifically, whether or not she had breast implants. The man thought not, but the woman thought she definitely had, because of her general build and the shape and size of her breasts. They argued about this in detail for some time.

Sadly my friend just listened in and didn't challenge them. I have no idea what they were thinking. It's not as if it's exactly unusual to find a Polish speaker on the London Underground, and my friend does look quite Slavic, but apparently it just never occurred to them that she might be able to understand them.

(P. S. FWIW, she doesn't actually have implants.)

Three that stick in my mind.

One was two shop assistants, one male and one female. The female one was laying out her career path to be a gold-digging trophy wife from doing her current "shite job" to pay for cosmetic surgery to getting a wealthy husband by any means necessary to dumping him as soon as she could for as much of his wealth as she could get hold of. It was her tone of voice/manner though, utterly sure of herself and grimly determined to make it happen. That and how she seemed to only see herself as a sex doll "man bait".

A woman at a bus stop complaining to the person on the other end about her (the complainer's) daughter. The daughter had just been suspended from school for attacking another pupil. Her mother was more concerned about "Having the little bitch hanging around the fucking house all day. I swear she fucking did this just to annoy me." than anything.

Two women meeting in the street.

First: "Hello? Carole isn't it?

Second: ???

First: "Susan's wedding?"

Second (Recognises First now) "Oh God yes!"

Both then break into laughter with lots of "Sweet Jesus" and "Didn't know where to look" type comments without ever saying what had happened at this wedding.

Several years on and I still want to know!