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?

My favourite one ever was a few weeks ago, literally just a snippet : "he was bald you know, and ever so feminine..." 😁 it makes me smile every time I think about it!

So funny this thread has popped up! I was out for dinner at a local pub last night and there were three people at the table next to us.

From the (loud) conversation I could make out that they all had partners of the opposite sex, but were egging each other on to cheat on their partners with someone of the same sex because it 'didn't count'.

They were also texting these poor people they planned to hook up with at the same time they were discussing it and it did make me laugh when one of them was quite clearly rejected by their desired hook up partner.

The amount of disrespect at that table was staggering!!

NDN, not long split up from her ex & child, sitting in her back yard on a warm day with her new squeeze while he carried on a very loud conversation on his phone along the lines of 'yeah, love, it's hectic, I'll be a couple of hours late home tonight, love you.' I'd really like to say something to her but don't know what.

These have made me remember so many more. and amused me no end in the early hours while I was awake. .

A few years ago I was in hospital, on the coronary ward. Bloke came in having had a heart attack and spent all day fawning over the nurses/female colleagues from the office who came to visit him. Clearly thought he was something special by the way he said to the nurse “oh I bet I’m the youngest one in here aren’t I?” To which she replied “oh no you’re not.” But I digress.... later that night his GF came to see him, well I assume it was his GF. She stayed till fairly late, after visiting actually and the nurses had to ask her to go. But as she left he said “see you tomorrow, now don’t forget to send me some special pictures...”. .

And another one: on way back to the station after visiting a family member we were walking down the street when we heard a row outside one of the houses. We didn’t need to even walk past to hear her scream “well you shagged my sister so what do you expect?”

This is stolen from elsewhere but I thought fitting for this thread!

“A scene of modern Britain played out on a rail replacement bus service in Newport yesterday. A woman wearing a niqab was chatting to her son in another language. After five minutes, a man suddenly snapped: ‘If you’re in the UK, you should speak English.’ At this, another passenger turned round and explained: ‘We’re in Wales. And she’s speaking Welsh.’”

Some of these stories are so funny.
I am bilingual (not wildly spoken language) and once I was on the train with my boyfriend. It was quite late so the carriage wasn't too full. These two ladies come in and sit opposite me and my bf and i could;d hear them speaking the language which I also happen to understand. I sat quietly, having a quite conversion with bf and heard the two women discussing us from what we were wearing to what we look like (we are both very normal looking if that's even a thing . The look on their faces was priceless when we got off at our stop and I wished them a pleasant evening, in the language they were using for their discussion

@AnnitaJo am bilingual as well in a language which is not widely spoken, and one day I got on a train and heard a woman having a row over the phone in said language. She was hurling the kind of insults you would only use if you thought no-one else could hear/understand you. .

Afterwards I mentioned to my mum that I’d heard this conversation and she said “did you tell her you speak that language?” I had to point out that if I’d done that then I’d also have had to admit I’d been eavesdropping on her conversation. .

Oh I love these threads. I hope I'll remember some of mine later, but am marking place for now.

I was at a bus stop once and the woman next to me was talking quite loudly to her husband. She was moaning about her sister and brother-in-law and their 3 children and in particular the way they were bringing them up. She was extremely critical. As time went by it became clear that she was talking about a close friend of mine. I bottled out of saying anything and cringed when I eventually met her at my friends house one day but she was completely oblivious. I never told my friend as I didn’t want to cause problems but still can’t get over how two faced she was

Two doctors waiting for their children to finish football practice, they were discussing a patient who had recently had an abortion. There was enough detail for anyone local to have figured out who the poor woman was.

I dread to think what other passengers would have made of a conversation I had with a very overweight woman on a bus once. I was on the four-seat sideways behind the driver with two other people and was wearing my new kilt-style skirt.

OW: "Can I squeeze in there?"
Me (as the sign said '4 seats and I felt I had no choice): "Yes, of course."

[One person is now upright and 3 are leaning at 45 degrees.]

OW: "You're looking very Scotch, dear."
Me: "Yes, I suppose I am. Thank you."
OW: "Well, there's no need to be like that. I can't help being big."

[Silence]

It was only after I got off the bus that the penny dropped that she had said I was looking very squashed.

"...my skirt got caught in an escalator.."

(I was agog, but missed the rest)

I colleague happily chatted in the office how his daughter had just been diagnosed with chlamydia, we all sat with our mouths open, he had no idea what he was sharing.

*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?*

TBF he might well have used his last £30 (or whatever) on those flowers...

I immediately thought of this character. He’s hilarious. 🤣

m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-UYK4nahoo

Bold fail

On a train journey and there was an outing for tourette's sufferers.

I shouldn't have laughed but it did get quite comical with all the various outbursts

Well I’m glad you got some pleasure out of their disability. That’ll be a comfort to them and their family. 😒

Walking through Manchester in summer, a bloke walked past us talking loudly on his phone "Yeah, I know she's a minger, but she's minted!" 😳 I very loudly said to my daughter that he needed to go and look in a mirror because he had a face like a baboon's arse!
Not overheard, but a couple of years ago I went to the loo in a Wetherspoons (yes, it was upstairs!), as I was washing my hands a young girl (around 7) came in and asked me to look after her fiver while she went to the toilet! I was somewhat surprised (stranger danger and all that). When she came out of the toilet, as I gave her the money she says "Oh my! I have the poopiest hands in the world!" whilst waving her (rather shitty) fingers at me! 🤦😂😂😂
I've overheard lots of parents swearing at their kids (I'm a TA) but one that shocked me most was a lady wearing a hijab shouting "Get back here you fucking little bastard!" at her DS in a supermarket car park. I probably shouldn't have been so surprised, being Muslim doesn't necessarily mean that you don't swear at your kids, but I did wonder what Allah would make of her awful behaviour.

I was bringing my two DSs home from school. The younger one just learning to read. We were waiting in a narrow street where there was some graffiti. Suddenly the youngest piped from the back seat, 'Sex.Wank!' His brother, three years older, span round in horror 'What did you say??' 'I read it' said the youngest. The traffic cleared and we moved off. 'Well,' said his brother, 'you must have read it wrong.' ' Why what do you think it said?' There was a short silence while I tried to concentrate on my driving. ' It must say sex rank' said the eldest, 'it will be where the prostitutes line up'. We were at a major junction by then but all I could think of was how did my 8 year old even know prostitutes existed?

My dm was welsh and welsh was her first language but she had lost her accent having lived in England for years. We were on holiday on Angelsey when we walked into a shop, the people in the shop switched to welsh as we walked in talking, my dm let them talk for a minutes then joined in in welsh saying " yes the weather is very nice and isn't it a good thing you were only talking about the weather". The look on their faces was priceless!

I was visiting a National Trust property that had peacocks strutting around the grounds. As I was walking along a path behind a thirty something American tourist and presumably, his mother, I overheard him say to her, 'yes, the noisy Peacocks with the brightly coloured feathers are the females and the plain birds are the males.'
I couldn't allow such nonsense to pass so I went up to them and said 'excuse me, I couldn't help overhearing your conversation and I should like to point out that the brightly coloured Peacock is actually male. The clue is in the word 'Cock'.
The mother looked horrified, so I quickly added, 'if you try to remember that a male chicken is a cockerel and the female a hen'....

Overheard by a couple of hundred people in a busy service station restaurant as my parents were on the way home from a 2-week holiday in Cornwall. (Mum loved sitting watching birds in their garden through the patio doors)

'I can't wait to get home and see if my tits are still there'.

@Crusytoenail yuck!

My all time favourite has to be watching and listening to the slightly (I'm being polite) feral kids that play in my street getting awfully excited that someone had spilt a bag of cocaine along my neighbours drive........ and proceeded to lick and snort said substance. The youngest child being pre-school, the oldest being 11 / 12 ish.

When they booted a football against my window later and claimed they were high I laughed and informed them they'd snorted ant powder........ the look of shock on their faces!

I'm not sure what bothered me most, the desire to consume drugs and look cool or the fact that they licked the pavement.....