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?

Two bed maternity ward after having DS. The woman behind the curtain had twins. Spent the entire time on the phone to her baby's father/his solicitor/ his family/ her family/ social welfare.

Turned out the DCs father was in prison, he was from Somalia and had broken immigration laws. The story changed depending on who she was talking to - as did his name! It was all so dramatic and kept me wildly entertained

One day went to the park when DC were little. A dad came over and started chatting as his DS was about the same age as mine. He told me that his DW had recently had a baby and that he’d brought the older child out to give them some peace. Then went on to say that he was taking the older child on holiday, just the two of them, to Spain. .

He wandered off after his DS and a bit later I heard him on the phone presumably to whoever he was booking the holiday through and he said: “yes that’s three people. Two adults and one child.”

The weird thing is that I encountered him some years later at a child’s birthday party but never ever saw the mother, or the younger child... I don’t know if he recognised me either...

I was once on a train which missed a connecting service, leaving about half a dozen people with expensive (work-funded) tickets all looking at missing our various meetings at the end destination, as there was no further connection for 90mins. The train company put us into two taxis for the 25 mile drive. I was put in a cab with a barrister and a solicitor who spent the entire journey discussing in great detail the incredibly high profile murder case they were working on, the defence that were planning to run, and how they (correctly, it turned out) thought they were on a hiding to nothing. I was at how indiscreet they were.

On a busy train. Woman across the aisle called someone on her mobile to say she wouldn’t make it in time for the meeting so could they just discuss now. Then proceeded to talk LOUDLY about a child protection case for ages, giving all sorts of info about this poor baby and its family.

“No, that’s the older sister. It’s the aunt who said she’d seen her hit the baby. No the other baby, the older son. No, he’s living with Dad. So anyway, Mum says it was an accident this time...” and on and on.

Some years ago I was in the steam room at the gym with one other woman. Another woman came in and these two knew each other vaguely from years ago and did a bit of, ‘How are you and what are you up to?’ type conversation.

Then woman number 2 starts saying in a confidential low voice that actually she had been very busy because she had discovered in herself the vocation of clairvoyance. She then said she wasn’t obviously able to divulge any details and then in the next breath explain that she was ‘involved in’ a case involving a very high profile missing child (it was very much around the time of Madeleine McCann going missing) but the authorities were stupidly ignoring her offers to help. She talked at some length in this very intense voice.

Woman number one is trying desperately to extract herself from this bonkersness and I sat quietly thinking that this was the best overheard conversation I’d ever heard. I hope she got some help.

This was me being overheard..

I was a big fan of Judy Bloom and read Forever (which is essentially about a girl losing her virginity) when I was about 12. Mum had no idea it was any different from her normal books and probably didn’t even know I was reading it. I was the oldest of a group of cousins who we went away camping with. Cousins in one tent, adults sitting outside drinking cheap plonk. I then decided to regale my cousins with all the sordid details whilst my mum and aunts listened on in horror. My mum was horrifically embarrassed and so was I when she told me the next morning that the whole campsite could basically hear me explaining the birds and the bees to my younger cousins.

Mine was at a cricket match. 2 very posh gentlemen behind us, mid fifties. They were discussing how to get one of their dds in to Durham university as she hadn't got the grades. They decided upon a signed blank cheque sent to one their 'mates' who was high up in Durham uni. .

I once overhead a group of young lads planning a burglary.

In Seattle:

A police officer, pulling on gloves: "Sir, I'm going to ask you one more time to remove your fist from your ass. I really don't want to have to do it for you."

The worst place I've ever been for meth addicts collapsed in the street in broad daylight. Shocked the hell out of me.

Oh, I also sat next to a group of posh rich students planning a trip to Syria at the height of the civil war 'because it'll be a bloody adventure'.

They were checking Skyscanner for flights, as if BA was still shipping people there.

Fucking twats, DH had to hold me back.

Start of a 2 hour train journey, an older woman with an extremely loud voice accompanied by 2 younger women sat at their booked seats, a table seat. They had badges on lanyards and looked like work colleagues on the way to a conference. An unconnected woman went to take the 4th seat, booked for her, when the older woman said "do you mind sitting somewhere else? We're going to be talking about rape and abuse and it might be triggering".

Well the whole carriage would be triggered in that case, given the booming voice!

At a wedding 'was that the time you were arrested for x, or the other time you were arrested for x?'
At school mother to a year three child 'what the fuck have you done now, you fucking little fucker?' They were being called in because the teacher (me), was really pleased with an improvement in behaviour. I was appalled.

2 shockers for me - one was just after DC1 was born and a friend was relating the details of a horrible birth the midwife had told her about - and I realised that was my labour and husband the midwife was bitching about.

The second was on a train - a man and woman were sitting opposite each other and started to chat. The man was travelling from London to visit his wife who was staying with her parents after the birth of her first child. He spent the trip complaining about his wife, and the woman spent the trip telling him how badly done to he was. They then arranged to meet over the weekend for a shag.
It was heartbreaking to listen to.

I went to a wedding and was seated at a table with several psychiatrists who were talking shop. They were one-upping each other with the “funniest” patient story, and the one that sticks involves a private hospital women’s locked ward, a missing budgie being found dead, having been inserted somewhere gynaecoligical by a very ill woman, and the punchline was that it was “eaten by her pussy....” all this over canapés....

In a shop in a small town in the US:

Woman 1: Do you know Mark?
Woman 2: Is he the one who got shot?
Woman 1: No, he's the one who shot him.

We lurked for a while, but the shooting was very much just a way to identify this man who evidently led quite a dull life otherwise!

Not nearly as good as some of these, but I was in a pub loo cubicle and two other girls came in. One called out to the other: “aw, it still burns when I wee... I think maybe I should see a doctor.” Err yes love, think you might be right!

I was in A&E with DD and we'd been moved out to an area that was away from the main department while we waited for an X-ray. There was basically me and DD in a cubicle, then an empty cubicle and then a man in a cubicle. We were away from anywhere or anyone else.

A policeman came in to talk to the man and started asking him about if he knew the man who'd shot him, then driven him 10 miles and randomly abandoned him. Man insisted that he was wondering along minding his own business and had just been randomly targeted. Policeman eventually gave up and went away.

About half an hour later (presumably) the man's family/friends arrrived and started quizzing him about what had happened. They didn't say anything explicitly but needless to say man knew exactly who had done it, why it had happened and there was then some talk of retaliation.

I did think afterwards (DD was found to have a severely broken leg and needed treatment and then stay in hospital for 2 weeks followed by more weeks in plaster, so this conversation went out of my mind pretty quickly until much later) that perhaps I should contact the police, but really there wasn't anything useful I could tell them other than that the man was lying, which I presume they realised anyway.

Amazed me how none of the people (including the policeman here) realised that hospital curtains are really not sound proof.

Sat on a bus and the 20-something lad behind me was ordering flowers to be delivered to his girlfriend. Asked for the cheapest bunch they had, checked to see if there was anything he could do to make it cheaper, then asked for the card to read 'this is how much I love you'

I wonder whether she got the irony?

I was heavily pregnant and went for a walk to a local beauty spot next to a river.
I could see what I assumed to be a dad and 2 sons fishing next to the river. The 2 boys aged about 5 and 7, looked really bored so were playing behind the dad (not close to the river), as I passed them the dad said "Fuck off you pair of twatting cunts" the hate in his voice made me so sad. I think of the boys often and wished there was something I could have done.

When my DD was still having regular check ups at the health centre, they had one week where they were using a larger room and had 2 HV's seeing babies/mums. As I was getting my DD weighed I overheard the other HV talking to a new mum about weaning. She had obviously asked her what first foods she was giving her little one and I only heard the HV saying "I'm not sure (baked) bean juice is an ideal first food for your 6 month old baby".

eeneymeeneyminyme, they might have been really struggling for money and he scraped together a little bit for flowers for her.

My late DH was 35 years older than me. We got used to people staring at us.... One morning when we were on holiday we were in a cafe when three old ladies at the next table kept staring at us....
DH kicked me under the table and winked at me... Then he whispered loudly at me..
"IF WE LEAVE NOW HOW LONG DO WE HAVE IN BED BEFORE YOUR HUSBAND COMES HOME?"
"ABOUT TWO HOURS..."
"COME ALONG THEN WE ARE LEAVING...!"
Up we got and sent to pay.. The looks on the ladies faces was priceless!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Not quite on overheard conversation, but I was sitting in a car park at a motorway service station one afternoon waiting for my DH to come out when a car pulled up a few spaces away with an older couple in it who were clearly having an absolutely blazing row. The woman got out, slammed the car door and stormed into the service station; the man just sat there quietly crying for a minute or two and then started his car and drove off towards the motorway. I'd love to have seen her reaction when she came out and he was gone, but sadly my DH came back to the car and declined to sit and wait to see how it played out.

The conversation was the type you just want to block out, loud and sweary young blokes drinking on the train one afternoon. The bit that shocked me was that they were breathing in and out of a balloon constantly, to get high. I didn't even know this was a thing. Bizarre.

ElizaDee maybe it was a tone of voice thing, but it certainly didn't sound that way!