Snippets of other people’s conversations

[YetMoreNewBeginnings]

Do you ever really, really wish it was ok to say “can you just tell me the rest of that story please?” 😂

On the late train and overheard a snippet of a conversation between two women and all I heard was “but it was just right there when I walked in the door… Just big beady eyes and that weird blue thing… I don’t even know what he does with it.”

Does with what?! What is the weird blue thing?

Have you ever heard a snippet and really wanted to know more?

Lighthearted obviously. I’m not actually rude enough to ask!

That reminds me of the first snippet of this Armstrong and Miller sketch armstrong ans miller piano and guests sketch

@YetMoreNewBeginnings well shit… now we’re all wondering.

I don’t suppose any mumsnetters were having a conversation about a beady eyed blue thing that would care to fill in the details?

Maybe...?

I like watching first dates unfold… You’re either rooting for them or silently saying ‘Run!’

Either way it’s kind of entertaining

Overheard in Asda -

“I just need to go to get a few extra packs of knickers, whenever we go to stay at Jean’s someone ALWAYS has an accident, I only need a few pairs though because the kids aren’t coming this time”

I can’t help but wonder what Jean cooks for her guests? 😂

On QI Sandi Toksvig once mentioned that when she was in a restaurant she overheard a couple saying: "Well, we sold the foot spa when Barbara had to give up waitressing." And she has always wondered about it

Once overheard a couple of girls as they walked past me in my first year of uni. One girl said to the other "I mean, it's not like it's the only cousin of hers she's slept with" and I will say it piqued my curiosity 😂

Overheard at a car boot, 2 women passing…

“Oh I much prefer funerals than weddings because the buffet is always much better.
Barbera’ funeral buffet had hot….. “ Then a car revved its engine so I couldn’t hear the rest.

Hot what? What was on Barbara’s buffet?? Was it hot, was it cold? What was it?
I want to know!!!!!!

One female American student to another, in the dining hall at my university in about 1992:

’And that was when I found my boyfriend in bed with my father…’

I was walking past their table with a tray of food, and that was all I caught.

😂😂😂😂

I’m now also wondering what happens at Jean’s house! 😂

Overheard at the BBC, "I've no idea how he got that job - he's only just stopped being the voice of that Russian meerkat."

I've always wondered....

Oh yes! Years ago I was on a train and overheard a fascinating conversation between two women in their 70s about when they lived in Kenya and were visiting a family who kept lions (hand raised by them) and one of the lions attacked one of the women’s young son. I heard a few mins and then had to get off the train but was desperate to know what had happened to the son and also the lion which had turned against the people who raised it!

Not exactly the same thing, but my two favourite overheard snippets of conversation are:

(1) Small child to his mother, passing the entrance to a park: 'So when do the wolves come out?'

(2) (Conversation between two middle-aged ladies in Oxford: 'So I told him that my daughter was here for a D.Phil, and he said, "Oh, I am sorry. Does she have to have it done in hospital?"'

God, I hope he was playing King Lear, and interjecting ‘Simples!’ into every monologue…

My exH in a busy store "I need to get a couple of litres of spirits for the kids"

This was years ago and he wanted it to feed the spirit copier, but the looks of horror around us were priceless