Overheard

Post » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:29 am

The description pretty much should explain this thread, post your anecdotes of weird things you have heard strangers or people in public (or private) have said to some one other than yourself. and in case there are any fans of Stop Podcasting Yourself, yes that is where I got this thread idea from. Even so I thought this sort of anecdotalness would go over well on the community discussion.

By the way, this thread is not so much about trying to eavesdrop on people as much as it is about some thing odd out of a conversation that suddenly grabbed your interest.

for my self, I work in a hard ware store and being retail I over hear a lot of conversations. most of which being related to the merchandise so often nothing I hear is boring. However, several weeks ago there was a lady and her husband looking at tiki torches. She said "I like these, they are authentic." which puzzled me enough that I wanted to interrupt and ask And what would an unauthentic tiki torch be? To her I suppose it was because they were made out of bamboo instead of plastic. but the way she said authentic was the same way some one would use the word in context to a famous painting.

alright, I am interested to hear what others have heard.
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Meghan Terry
 
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Post » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:41 am

Oh god, the things I hear at furry conventions... :P

Sadly I don't have any one particular moment to share right now - maybe I'll have something glorious to share from MFF.
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Alex [AK]
 
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Post » Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:11 pm

I once entered a multiplayer black ops match and heard one dude tell his friend "I don't care how tight your sister's [censored] is, I don't know what she looks like!".
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Trey Johnson
 
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Post » Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:13 am

:rofl:
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Nick Tyler
 
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Post » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:30 am

I've had a couple "kids say the darndest things" lately.

1) Mom and daughter are walking through the grocery store. I'm standing by the customer service desk. The girl is young (has to reach up to push the cart) and is pushing the cart toward the front of the store, around the check out lines. The mom goes, "Hey, this way. Where were you going?" The girl simply says, "I have no idea."

2) Walking through KMart, I hear a daughter (about 10) talking with her dad:
Girl: "Jenny has toe shoes."
Dad: "Oh really?"
Girl: "Yeah, but she ruined them."
Dad: "Oh no."
Girl: "Do you wanna know how?"
Dad: "Sure."
Girl: "Well, she was riding her bike and her foot started dragging on the ground! And she ripped like half her toe nail off! It was bleeding and everything. Wanna know the worst part?"
Dad: "Nooo..."
Girl: "She ruined her toe shoe!! She was crying about it!"
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