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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?

OP posts:
Becca19962014 · 10/10/2019 19:12

Many years ago on a train I overheard the following as a nurse (in uniform) got on ...

"No seriously, she'd been giving herself some fun, ya know with the porn and, needed a good seeing to and used the wine bottle. I mean the rest of us just use fingers or sausages but no, she decided on a wine bottle. Took fucking ages to get it out what with the suction and everything".

Shock
Hippee · 10/10/2019 19:12

On a bus with a load of drunk people who were being a bit loud and sweary. I was very pregnant and when one of them spotted me they told all the others to be quiet and mind their langauge in front of the pregnant lady. Presumably in their drunken logic they were thinking it was wrong to swear in front of children - even though it hadn't been born yet (passive swearing?)

GGsMumma · 10/10/2019 19:16

@Bubblesgun that brought a tear to my eye I hope my daughters dad doesn’t abandon her til she’s in her 20’s. She’s one so I am still hopeful he grows up sees what he’s missing as soon as possible and makes contact to see her

Boysey45 · 10/10/2019 19:18

I was once going walking for the day and was off early.The train I got on was at 8.30a.m or so. On the train was a hen party going to Manchester and one woman began to give out t shirts saying Sharons hen party etc. What got me is that they all took off their tops and were in their bras for a bit whilst sorting out these.
The woman giving them out was dancing up and down the aisle in her bra and drinking a bottle of wine in the other.

myidentitymycrisis · 10/10/2019 19:19

Woman smoking at a bus stop with teenage son.
Member of the public also waiting: "You aren't allowed to smoke inside the bus shelter any more, do you mind moving away?"
Smoking woman: "why the hell not? bloody cheek!"
member of the public: "It's bad for people who have asthma"
Smoking woman (Moves away): "I have asthma! bloody cheek!" (whilst pulling hard on her fag)

imaflutteringkite · 10/10/2019 19:27

I was staying at my mums after finally calling the police on XP after he hit me again. Came downstairs to get a drink, walked past the living room to hear my mum say to my stepdad "well she deserved it, she doesn't tidy up often enough".

Branster · 10/10/2019 19:27

spiritslevel is the term “triggering” used in real life? I was convinced it was part of MN specific language!

DarlingNikita · 10/10/2019 19:27

managed, I'd forgotten about the cunt for the butter thing! Grin
It's not mine so I don't feel I can tell it.

TheHammaconda · 10/10/2019 19:31

I was on the same bus home from school as a bunch of students. I overheard one student describing the threesome he had had the week before with a girl and her boyfriend. He was very graphic, then went on to describe the guys with the nicest cocks he'd fucked and whose spunk tasted best etc.

Orangecake123 · 10/10/2019 19:46

I was sharing a room with my parents I had a single bed they had the double. I was asleep but woke up in the morning to my dad asking my mother about having sex and if I was asleep or not to which they proceeded to do so (the quilt was over my face). I have NEVER told them about it.

Orangecake123 · 10/10/2019 19:48

@posterimaflutteringkite I'm sorry you had to hear and go through all of that. That's such an awful thing to say. No woman deserves to ever be attacked.

OMGshefoundmeout · 10/10/2019 19:52

In a quiet pub one Saturday lunchtime. Two very rough men sitting next to us accompanied by two little lads aged about 4 and 7ish. We couldn’t hear them at first but then the music went off and the younger man was mouthing off to the older one about ‘the fucking bitch of a cunt who wouldn’t fucking let him do x y or z’. This went on for several minutes, he wasn’t raving or furious, just a constant monologue about this fucking bitch/whore/cunt etc. I was shocked that anyone would carry on like that in front of children. Eventually the older boy said very quietly without even looking up from his screen ‘Please Daddy, you know I don’t like it when you say these things about Mummy’. His dad took no notice and carried on effing and blinding about their mum and my heart broke for those two little boys.

missbattenburg · 10/10/2019 19:53

Less an overheard conversation and more a mistakenly read one.

At a previous address I accidentally opened some post for the previous tenants. I lived alone and had been there a couple of years or so, which meant all mail was almost certainly for me. This wasn't. It was an annual invoice/final warning for some frozen embryos. Shocked I sent it on to the landlord to send on to the tenants but was always worried in case it never reached them.

About two years later, just before Christmas I opened a parcel that had been delivered. Again, not noting who is was addressed to.

I was very shocked to discover someone had sent me 3 little baby grows and a little card that said "found these and thought of you all xxxx".

I checked the address and it wasn't for me. It was for the previous tenants. I like to think they used those embryos after all... Smile

Wheat2Harvest · 10/10/2019 19:53

I colleague happily chatted in the office how his daughter had just been diagnosed with chlamydia

I was at a leaving do at the legal firm where I worked when a solicitor informed us that one of her clients had necrophilia. She didn't quite get the sideways looks, so someone gently asked her whether it was somehow connected to her role in Wills and Probate.

After a further explanation during which she nearly dropped her glass of wine she made it absolutely clear that the unfortunate client had had the flesh-eating bug, necrotising fasciitis, and had never shown signs of deviant behaviour. Shock

imaflutteringkite · 10/10/2019 19:54

Orangecake thanks. It was one of the reason that the DV went on for so long (10 years) because I knew I wouldn't be able to go home to my mums. I'd never liked my step dad growing up but he said straight away to my mum that she was wrong and he stuck up for me, he didn't know I was there either. It made me realise I never ever want my children to feel like they can't come home to me if it's all gone wrong.

Fangtiger · 10/10/2019 20:03

I was in a tattoo parlour waiting my turn. There was a couple in front of me and the bloke was having the name Lorraine tattooed on his forearm. As they were leaving the woman giggled, "What's your wife gonna say?"

cardamoncoffee · 10/10/2019 20:03

As a CP SW I've heard things that would make your hair stand on end. There was a family I visited with a teen daughter and out the blue the mother told the (early teen) daughter very matter of factly that she could get a job as a stripper. The father looked enraged and said she wasn't good looking enough, but a sex chat line job would be more appropriate. He then asked her to do a demo strip and she did, gyrating away on an invisible pole. The father looked on very thoughtfully, pronouncing that he was pleasantly surprised and perhaps a customer facing job was possible after all Hmm

NarwhalsNarwhals · 10/10/2019 20:12

Walking home from a night club behind two very drunk girls.
Girl 1: I want a quarter pounder with cheese
Girl 2: You're a vegan.
Girl 1: Am i? ah fuck.

Rainbowbrite11 · 10/10/2019 20:14

I was on hoilday quite a while back at a very nice hotel in Dubai. I was sat round the pool and could hear this guy talking, saying how he was going out tonight to a club and if he didn't pull he was going to hire a sex worker for the night. He was really loud like he wanted everyone to hear.
That night me and my husband went to bed we had an early flight home, 2am rolls round and he's in the bloody room next door. Suck my dick bitch and can you take my big cock! The girl put on a real performance. She worked hard for her money. I was exhausted just listening to them. 😂

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 10/10/2019 20:21

I live in a town that has a youth offenders institution and there would regularly be released inmates on the bus I used to get to work. There were some interesting conversations, usually fuelled by cans of super strong lager. Generally about how they had smuggled in phones, dope and weapons. But one day a gf had come to meet her BF (with his mum and sister) After general chat about life he said "eh mam, me and xxxx haven't seen each other for a bit, we're just going on the back seat for a bit." "Right you go son" and they did! Unfortunately the bus was getting busy and someone complained to the driver.equally unfortunately it's a very rural route and the driver kicked them out in the middle of nowhere. (He was a big bloke and BF was a bit of a weed)

chrisie16 · 10/10/2019 20:28

Or snorted ant powder? LOL!!

AragonsGirl · 10/10/2019 20:28

I live near a town with a prison. Was getting bus into nearest big city, and 2 people behind me had just been released from prison. They spent the whole journey discussing there common acquaintances and what prison they’d met them in etc.

LessRabbitThan · 10/10/2019 20:31

namechange I work for a food retailer...

Woman 1: ...spoken to them and they think we should go ahead.

Woman 2: Well if we do that, it should increase the flow through at any rate.

Woman 1: Yes, we'll talk about it in the meeting.

Woman 2: Any update on the pubes?

Woman 1: There's an investigation. The Customer Careline....

Me: {80

AragonsGirl · 10/10/2019 20:32

Their...😬

NorthBich · 10/10/2019 20:32

Methhead guy, stood at the bus stop, screaming to methhead woman who was getting on the bus: IF YOU JUST GIVE ME A CHANCE PLEASE

Methhead girl, staggering and putting money in the machine one by one: IM SICK OF THIS, YOU DONT APPRECIATE ME ENOUGH

Methhead guy: I GOT YOU A CAT! YOU SAID YOU WANTED A CAT AND I GOT YOU ONE

Methhead girl: NO, YOU NICKED IT OFF OUR KAZ'S NEIGHBOUR.

Methhead guy, almost falls backwards from sighing so hard.

Methhead girl, while dragging a bin bag behind her and concentrating way too hard on holding onto the ticket: IF YOU CARED ABOUT ME YOUD COME AFTER ME!

Methhead guy: I AINT GOT MONEY FOR THE BUS! AND THE CAT WAS ALWAYS OUTSIDE I AINT KNOW IT HAD A HOME

It was like a live version of Jeremy Kyle.