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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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Bcnamechanger · 09/10/2019 14:09

A long time ago, I was in a fancy schmancy restaurant in London. Seven course tasting type thingy. My DH had organised it for my birthday. Huge treat. We sat down in our seats v close to the next two-person table. It was the kind of arrangement where you had to really use "indoor voices".

The people next to us didn't. They proceeded to have a blazing row. I think it started with his infidelity but they were really going for it across all manner of failings on both sides. It was the kind of thing we just couldn't pretend wasn't happening. I've never done this before it since but as soon as there was another seat free I asked to be moved. Staff were brilliant - very quiet and subtle about it. The couple were rocketed through the whole meal to get them out fast. Was horrible for them and everyone around them.

CharlieB93 · 09/10/2019 14:09

When I was little on Valentines Day my mum and dad used to always put a card under the letterbox as if it had been pushed through by someone.
On this particular V day my best friend had slept over at my house and I went down stairs to find the card - I can remember gushing to my mate about how much 'Ashley' (crush at the time) fancies me and it was obviously from him etc and how I was going to give him a card back at school (and I did)
Needless to say my mum and dad overheard this conversation and still wind me up about it now. So cruel! Still makes me cringe!!!

cstaff · 09/10/2019 14:10

My sister was involved in a car accident a few years ago. An off duty policeman had rammed into the back of her and was completely at fault - settled later in court.

A few months later her husband was at a BBQ and was talking to a different police officer who he was friendly with and this guy was telling my BIL about this asshole that he works with who has been involved in a few car accidents and that his latest one involved a mother and two kids in [their home town outside their house]. My BIL copped immediately what accident he was talking about and encouraged him to tell him more. Eventually my BIL came clean and said "by the way that was my wife and two kids that your colleague crashed into". The poor man turned white and couldn't get away quick enough.

DollyParsnip · 09/10/2019 14:23

I needed to go to A&E with a dodgy foot and was waiting for the result of my x-ray. In the cubicle next door was a Woman with her daughter, who was being incredibly racist about the nursing staff. She was saying that because they were all "foreigners" she couldn't understand them (everyone spoke much better English than her!) and wanted a "nice white Doctor" to tell her what was up with her daughter.

The Staff apologised and said they would send the most senior Dr in. A few Minutes later a man went in with the most beautiful accent, obviously of African heritage. The Woman gets really cross and leaves with her daughter.

A Dr then comes in to my cubicle, a gorgeous black man who is the A&E consultant. He gives me a massive wink and starts talking to me and the Nurse in an absolute Downton Abbey cut glass English accent - he said "I really hate racists" Grin

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 09/10/2019 14:25

Not so much overheard but a message left on my mobile phone. It was a woman saying "He's out for a couple of hours with the kids so it would be really good if you came now. I miss you." I felt so sorry for the kids and their father.

On a funnier note there was a well refreshed "lad" on the train going on to his mates about the amazing hand job he had had the night before. That his mother had disapproved when she walked in and was not happy with her sister who was with him. He kept them going for a while then confessed that his aunt was training to be a beautician and had given him a manicure.

Sallyseagull · 09/10/2019 14:36

After I gave birth to my first child, I was on the post-labour ward. The girl next to me had had a surprise baby, didnt know she was pregnant and sisnt know who the dad was as could have been 1 of 3 men. She was having this conversation with who I presume was her mum.

DippyDepannage · 09/10/2019 15:06

busy maternity ward, young very pregnant girl talking to the midwife "miss my waters have gone, I know I aint pissed myself it smells like mans cum" Grin Shock

banskuwansku · 09/10/2019 15:10

I was next to the midwives station and heard when one said she needs to get some sertraline for the headcase in other cubicle.

TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot · 09/10/2019 15:14

I once walked past two women arguing.

Woman 1 [Screaming in Woman 2's face] : You fucking two-faced lying bitch.
Woman 2: Why don't you come and say that to my face?
Woman 1 [Sounding slightly perplexed] : I am saying it to your face.
Woman 2: Oh.

SpringStory · 09/10/2019 15:15

i used to do mystery shopping with a friend. one day we both took the same job, went into town together and grabbed some lunch beforehand. when it came to the job we didnt want to be seen on camera together (while not against the rules its not exactly a fair indicator of the staff if we go in minutes apart). she went in first, got served and left. i then followed her in. to hear the staff spraying air freshner and complaining about the "hippy bitch" who had been in before me stinking of insense!!! and did you see the state of her clothes? who did she think she was - sienna miller?! its not 2002 and boho chic is out now.

i never told my friend but i did suggest in my report that the staff not bitch about other customers in front of people

HaveeeeYouMetTed · 09/10/2019 15:28

I heard a woman talking on her phone about how her boyfriend "had made her swell last night, left her dripping & sucked her breasts so good they are all bruised today" ... at 1.30pm on a Wednesday by the sandwiches in my local co-op ... Envy

Bluntness100 · 09/10/2019 15:39

Not conversation as such, but on my way to work one morning, I have to drive past a very high end old people's home, think stately home kind of thing, and outside on the pavement, were two carers, in full uniform, including candy striped tops, literally beating the shit out of each other. 🤣

Booboostwo · 09/10/2019 15:44

Guy in front of my at a pharmacy asked for a homeopathic cure for the common cold, but not too potent.

changeofname0987 · 09/10/2019 15:50

Overheard by my mum... Two old ladies chatting "yeah well he always goes mad when I take his liver out" Grin

mummmy2017 · 09/10/2019 15:51

My DD asked what a blow job was, she was 12, convinced she knew and was playing me up she said can I get aunty to tell me.
She called, aunty told...
Oh my god that is discussing.
You have to be joking.
Why would anyone put that in their mouths.

MrsMoastyToasty · 09/10/2019 15:55

DH, DS and I had decided to grab a meal at one of the local pub/restaurant chains. We were sat in banquette seating with our backs to another party of 2 couples. One of the women was talking about the fact that they were planning on spending £8000 on Christmas presents alone this year.
(We spend about £300 on absolutely everything)

Lagatha · 09/10/2019 15:57

I was in a little bistro in Paris and there were two older ladies at the next table. One was French, the other American.
The American lady talked at length about how she had grown up in San Francisco and then left at 18 to work as a nanny in LA for Kenneth Tynan (well known theatre critic/journalist) and that it was a total nightmare as she ended up sleeping with him and he was a total creep. She then apparently went to film school and started writing film scripts. She dropped loads of famous names like Peter Sellars, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen.
Then she got really successful but addicted to drugs and alcohol. Went into the Betty Ford clinic and got clean.
I was desperately trying to listen.
The French lady barely said a word.

Another time on a bus, two old ladies.
"I'm having a terrible time with my stomach "
"What's the matter with it?"
"Well, if I bend over I shit myself. "

WarmSausageTea · 09/10/2019 16:03

I found this quite upsetting and it’s really stuck in my mind.

On the train recently, I heard a woman say ‘don’t be a dick... don’t be an arsehole’, her voice getting louder as she walked through the carriage. She walked by holding a toddler in her arms, and yes, it was the child that she was talking to. Sad Angry

I wanted to say something to her, but would that have been the right thing to do, or would it just rain more shit on the child later? In the end, I said nothing, and I still don’t know what would have been for the best. Poor kid.

RickOShay · 09/10/2019 16:11

@Bubblesgun
You are a lovely person

NKFell · 09/10/2019 16:15

Man: All I care about are the bairns, I'm not an island
Woman: That's what I'm saying, you only care about your bairns
Man: I said 'the bairns' I love them all
Woman: You said 'I only care about my bairns'
Man: No I didn't! I said 'the the bairns
Woman: It doesn't matter, all I know is it was in the drawer at 2pm and when I got back at 6:30 it was gone.

I wanted to say "FIRSTLY, he definitely said 'the bairns' and secondly- what was in the effing drawer!!!????

Chelsea26 · 09/10/2019 16:17

I had a really good looking boyfriend when I was younger and he was a recruitment consultant. In my summer holiday from uni he got me a temp job at a local hospital. One day I had to go into the HR office and do some photocopying.

As I was standing there one of the women out the phone down and said “that was Greg from select, he’s coming in for a meeting tomorrow and I’ve scheduled it for just before lunch. If we play our cards right we could be having lunch with him tomorrow” They all then started banging on about how hot my boyfriend was and what they wanted to do with him given the chance.

My phone then starts ringing and it’s Greg saying he’s booked a meeting in just before lunch time so he can take me for lunch the next day...

Witchinaditch · 09/10/2019 16:20

@MrsMoastyToasty I know this isn’t the point but how do you do Xmas for £300? Not being cheeky would love to know!

Morado · 09/10/2019 16:20

I was at a train station in Merseyside (where I live) and overheard a guy say "Right so there was me, Steve and Purple Aki" Hmm

katiegoestoaldi · 09/10/2019 16:23

In the supermarket earlier today there was a rembrance book for people to sign.

Queueing up at the supermarket cafe for a coffee to drink on the way home the two women behind me were talking about the lady who usually runs the cafe. I knew her from previous visits to the cafe. The rembrance book was for her and apparently she killed herself. Poor, poor lady

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 09/10/2019 16:24

I was the speaker of something someone overheard once. All they got was the tail end which left them looking horrified (understandably):

"...and the whole thing was made of human skin!"