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?

Some American tourists I overheard when I was staying in a hotel in Birmingham.
They were planning a day trip to London. Then one of them said "And it should be really quiet on a Sunday as everyone will be in church!"
I nearly choked on my continental breakfast.

About ten years ago I was in a supermarket and heard a little boy of four or five say "you stupid woman" to his mother. No child should have that level of sneering and hatred in his voice. I was really upset because he must have heard it from someone and I imagined it was another adult at home - she didn't look shocked. I hope she got out of whatever situation she was in.

Today on the train two youngish guys sat behind me. One guy said "yes, of course, because in my line of work when you teach people you need to make sure they understand or they won't learn anything" - just like every other teacher, ever I guess?!

I speak a bunch of languages from my part of the world and frequently overhear people talking about private stuff. The most memorable was this man sitting next to me and discussing in enormous detail how he was planning to stay illegally in the country and giving all these details of an illegal visa scam. What was actually shocking about that conversation is that it was clear that the Home Office was entirely complicit (this was when TM was heading the HO) and he mentioned several people who were in the HO who had been bribed to keep quiet about the scheme. I was 😱😱😱😱.

I was in hospital having had major surgery. One of the nurses had come in and been really horrible to me, as she insisted I needed to move around and it hurt (I found out later my notes said I didn't have to move until the next day). The surgery was quite emotional anyway and it hurt a lot, through the morphine and I'd ended up in tears. She'd gone outside my room to bitch to her colleague about me and I overheard her colleague say 'you realise she's the new manager don't you...' (I was). She came straight back in apologising profusely if she'd 'been a bit hard on me just now'.

On a bus, girl on the phone to her friend explaining her trip to the doctors. Apparently she'd been told if she didn't have the meningitis vaccine before going to uni she would die 'guaranteed'.

Went to Emmerdale Village on a tour bus...

Sounded like two young girls sitting behind us.....
One was saying I have been over excited for days,I havent slept all night thinking about this today.So glad I managed to get rid of my kid so I can enjoy this.
I bet everyone on this coach will be so bloody boring,we will be the only ones having a laugh.
I bet when they ask questions on the tour we will be the only ones who will know the answers because we will be the only real fans.

Pulled into the vullage and drove past the Sharma house....other girl says I wonder if that is used on filming. The gobby one says no that one isnt....I turned around and said its The Sharmas House....I got such a filthy look lol

I didn’t over hear this...we were overheard

My dh has dyed his hair bleach blonde but after a week or so, it turned a gingerish sort of colour.

He was adamant he wasn’t ginger.

Sat in wimpy and we were debating the hair colour.

Me:-it’s ginger!
Him:- no it’s not!

Just as I was about to reply, a young waitress cleaning a table behind us piped up with “actually it is”

My dh feigned anger but couldn’t hold it and we both burst out laughing.

Poor girl blushed red and scootled off quickly

@Morado from memory, Purple Aki (Google him) is a well known character in the area - so mystery solved!

Once sat in a pub and overheard the 30ish couple at the next table who were obviously on a first date. The woman was telling the man in all seriousness that her ex had treated her badly because at the time he wouldn’t leave his other pregnant girlfriend for her...

So many things but i can't divulge due to my job!

Group of lads, making fun of any girl/woman not a size 8. "Fucking fat cunts, lot at her, what is she like a size 10? I could never bang a fat bird". They were busy pointing out women, playing the "who would you fuck" game. Stupid little pricks.

Right so there was me, Steve and Purple Aki" hmm

i don't get this

Walking through the city centre, early evening, and passed two guys in their 20s:

‘Don't invite Dangerous Dave. He’s stopped drinking, anyway’.

Really wanted to know who Dangerous Dave was!

Purple Aki is rather a notorious criminal.

I overheard a cracker on the train a few weeks ago. Woman on the phone discussing some kind of upcoming event.

"Yeah [name] is meant to be coming, but her man only has days to live so I don't think they'll make it. It's a shame. £60 a ticket though and I don't know if we'll get anyone to replace them now!"

Sounded like she really cared about her friend's dying partner

Two couples leaving the Hydro after a show on Sunday. Younger woman starts screaming at older woman things along the lines of:

"You're just a fucking alcoholic, don't fucking look at me in that way, had enough of your snide looks, who do you think you are, I hate you, even if you are fucking my Dad, come over here and say that..." and so on all the way over the foot bridge to the station. The younger woman's partner had her by the shoulders trying to steer her away.

The older woman's partner (presumably the Dad) said nothing. Older woman visibly staggering and too drunk to string a coherent sentence together in response.

Couldn't give them a wide berth either due to the crowds. Everyone doing that very British thing of looking straight ahead and pretending it's not happening.

Not overheard but an acquaintance once asked on Facebook "curious to know what hand everyone uses to wipe themselves after using the toilet" (No idea what would spur that curiousity!) Her 'cuz' hastily replied.

"Right hand for muff, left for hole xxx"

@OtraCosaMariposa the Hydro! I love spotting a local place on a MN thread

My DB was staying with me about 10 years ago and came downstairs saying he had heard my neighbour on the phone outside our window talking about the time he spent on death row and his book which was coming outZ
I did a bit of googling and it turned out he was on death row for 20+ years and had been finally proved innocent through dna!
He moved out soon after that

We had been to see Still Game, @AllStarBySmashMouth. You know how busy it is leaving. Just the place for a full on screaming domestic with your Dad's girlfriend.

Years ago, I used to get the bus home from work and a very prim and proper woman would be on there . If you had to draw an example of ‘straitlaced’ for a dictionary you’d probably end up drawing her. One evening she was on the back seat with a pretty seedy looking man and she was completely pissed, all over him, loudly proclaiming all the things she wanted him to do to her when they got back to her house. It was half seven in the evening, lord knows how long she had been drinking for.
I writhed in embarrassment for her, it was so OTT and people with children were doing that overloud talking you do when you’re trying to block out something you don’t want them to hear.
She was on the bus as usual after that, quiet as a mouse, always alone. I felt really sorry for her as I’m not sure it was a sensible decision she made that day.

Mine is really sad.

At an airport waiting for a flight back to the UK. I was sat near a family of a mother, two older teenage children and a severely disabled boy of about 13yrs.

He was making noises and seemed unsettled. The mother turned to him and said in such a menacing, hate filled voice, 'If I had a gun right now I would shoot you dead' and followed this up with physical threats to slap and punch him etc. Older children acted as if this was normal, didn't seem shocked.

Hideous.

I was much younger, horrified, saddened, didn't know what I could do, if anything.

I often think of him/them

Sat in a cafe a few years ago....

Lady on the phone telling Kevin to take a half shift because Graham would be in work.From what she was saying I gathered that Graham was the husband and he actually worked shifts with Kevin....so if Kevin left early he knew Graham was still at work.

We were in our hotel room on holiday. DP was watching tv and I was in the bathroom cleaning teeth. I suddenly heard grunting, gasps, heavy breathing and general vigorous shagging noises. I called out to DP to ask what the hell he was watching and he said 'the Paralympics'. I checked, he was and the porn movie soundtrack was actually coming from the room next door. We both burst out laughing and the sounds (and presumably the shag) stopped abruptly. I was out on the room terrace the next morning and the guy next door stepped out onto his. He took one look at me and shot back in . He wasn't what I expected from the sounds !

Quick one from a group of people walking in the opposite direction from me.

Woman: "I would rather shit in my hands and clap than have them in my house"

I really wanted to turn around and follow them to hear the rest of that conversation