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Have you been out in public (restaurants, waiting in line, etc.) and suddenly overheard a comment made by someone nearby... and really wanted to know what the hell they were talking about?
I was in a store the other day and there were two people in front of me buying a broom and duct tape. The woman said to the man, "I think one might be alive but the other was definitely gone." My husband assured me they were talking about maybe a litter of kittens or something... but I'm not at all sure!
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#1
I'm not sure if this counts as being, "overheard," but it was definitely not meant to be announced. My family of six was sitting in church. Harried and tired my teenagers were grumpy that they had to be at church in the early morning on a weekend. They were bickering with one another in that silent but loud enough that anyone could tell they were pissy kind of way. I was rolling my eyes a lot. They'd survive.
Anyway, there's a part in our church ceremony where everyone is supposed to be very quiet and reverent. No talking and no loud noise at all. In the midst of the semi-silence (there were a lot of young children present) a little girl in the pew just in front of us started to play peek-a-boo with us. Ducking behind her dad's head and then coming back out with a huge smile. It gave us all a chance to chill out and smile back.
However, we had no idea that the child would feel such a close bond with us after just a little game that she'd start sharing family secrets!
In a whisper shout that hopefully only reached our family's ears she announced, "My mommy and daddy take showers together"!
The chaos that ensued was something I'll never forget. One of my daughters emitted a snort-laugh, my son tried to cover his startled shout of laughter with a cough that was amazingly obvious and the parents scooped up their little tattle-tale and booked it out of the meeting so fast that I was surprised not to see the roadrunner's cloud of dust behind them.
All I could do was cross my legs and try not to pee my pants in public. (If your a mom of multiple children, you understand). My family silently shook with laughter for much too long. All in attendance then stared daggers at us as if we were the ones that were disturbing the peace. And I guess we were. But we surely didn't care. So. Very. Worth. It.
Needless to say, there was no more fighting or anger on the drive home. We were all amazingly entertained by the sweet little girl and her lovely innocence.
Even though we tried to reassure them that it wasn't a big deal, every time we saw the couple and their daughter after that, they acted as if we had caught them in the act or something. The little girl however, loved my kids and never missed a chance to loudly say hello... but only for a moment... before her mouth was covered and she was whisked far, far away.
Final score:
30points
#2
Sitting on the train on my way back from a trip visiting friends, I was slightly hungover and tired and just wanted to sleep. Opposite of me was a young girl, (about 8-9) chatting non-stop. Her dad seemed to be pretty tired too and just wanted her to be quiet for a while, so he pulled out a puzzle book for her, hoping that would work – it didn't, it made things worse.
She had chosen a crossword puzzle to solve, and every few seconds she asked “Papa, what is another word for XYZ”? After a few minutes of this, she asked:
“Papa, what's a rare boy's name beginning with J”
With a really loud sigh, he answered “Jennifer” to which the little girl exclaimed “But that's not a boy's name!!”
To which the father dryly replied, “Yeah, that's why it's so rare”.
I don't know if it was because I was so tired, but my hungover a$$ couldn't stop laughing.
Final score:
19points
#3
I was talking with some girls in English last year and they were talking about their crushes. I said what's he like and she started out her sentence with, "Well, he's not homophobic or racist-" I had to interrupt her. There aren't many good guys at our school but god damn is this where the bar has come to???
Final score:
14points
lily sampson 2 years ago
very sad, thats the reason i broke up with my bf (except he was sexist as well)
#4
As a child, about 6, I woke up in the middle of the night, from my bedroom, I heard what sounded like pots and pans being moved about in the kitchen downstairs, I was convinced we had a ghost. I shifted position to hear better, the sound turned out to be my brother, in the bunk bed below, snoring. How they sounded alike I do not know.
Final score:
13points
delightfuldragon 2 years ago
I was camping and sharing a tent with my younger sister and even younger step-sister. It was night and very dark in the tent when my stepsister said to me "I hear a motorcycle". I listened a couple seconds, giggled and said "That's not a motorcycle. That's Michelle!" Snoring sounds are weird. lol
#5
I keep a list of funny situations on my phone…here are a few.
Random lady in car driving by
“DID YOU EAT MY COOKIE?!?!?!?!”
“Maybe they’ll have sex tonight cuz then we can’t hear them” -The group of middle aged ladies sitting behind me in the waiting area of the airport
Random little kid at Target: “There’s a hole in my tooth!”
Mom: “Stop lying to me!”
At an art museum with my grandma.
Random older lady on phone whispering loudly: “Do you have your fancy underwear on?”
Final score:
13points
#6
I was sitting in the business school lounge at my college and overheard a kid say to his friend “dude I got her pregnant”. They walked away before I heard any more of the story, but I wonder how he’s doing today.
Final score:
11points
#7
I was just waiting in line for a snorkeling trip and I hear a group of people, here’s there conversation:
1: Hey your toes are really long
2: No, your toes are bigger
1: But yours are hairier
2: But yours are so ugly!
I’m not even going to type out the rest, you get the idea
Final score:
11points
#8
I work in retail so I overhear many things said by many people of the general public. It gets even better because I mainly work in the carpark doing trolleys as one of very few people who can do that job for long hours at a time. So I'll just list a few of the best ones with a bonus story
1: Walking out of the shop to the carpark I pass by two women near a trolley bag. As they walk past me in my regular daydream I snap back to reality at the exact moment one of them says to the other "Did you get a Loan Fish?" Followed by no reply as I kept walking. To this day I still have no idea what a Loan Fish is
2: Once again in a Daydream I walk past a small group of people in the Underground Carpark, a place I call the Underpark. This group was standing just behind a parked car (presumably theirs) and all of a sudden I hear "Are you winning?". Now at the time I entered a sort of crisis thinking like "Am I winning?" But with further thought a phone was involved. They were probably playing a mobile game
Bonus Story: We have this horrible busy lane of Trolley Bays in the Underpark I simply call Lane 4. Everyone hates doing it because that's where literally everyone ever seems to park so it fills up super quickly and if we aren't fast with the rest of our job, they overflow into the road and we end up having aggressive negotiations with the managers. Anyway as I was about to start taking in multiple rows I had gathered at the base of Lane 4 a woman walks out of the shop holding a biscuit tin. At the other end of my lime of trolleys she stops to stare me dead in the eye then raises the Biscuit Tin above her head before starting to violently shake it which causes her entire body to shake. She shouts out "Venn Kik" at me then put the Biscuit Tin back in her arms and continues on her way. Not knowing what else to do I just said "Yeah, alright" on a slightly confused manner and moved on. However "Venn Kik" haunted my mind the rest of the day so when I got home I typed it into Google Translate on detect Language. Turns out she said "Friend, Look" leading me to believe that she was just simply happy with her biscuit tin and wanted to share that. Can't quite remember but I think the language was Danish, it was a while ago. Tbh the language isn't what stick in my head, Venn Kik was
Thank you for reading!!
Final score:
10points
#9
"People ate Lebron James?!?"
I heard this when I was in middle school, it's stuck with me ever since. I never got any context for it and it sometimes eats me up inside.
Final score:
10points
#10
My parents divorced when I was in college. Went back to hometown during a school break and stayed with my childhood best friend. I slept on the couch in the living room nearest to the kitchen. Early the next morning, I overheard her mom telling someone (don't remember who) that she thought my mom had "lost her marbles" for getting divorced. Hurt that someone who was always warm, welcoming, and caring would judge my family so poorly for that mutual decision.
Final score:
9points
#11
"BUT DID YOU EAT THE ZOMBIES?!?!"
~random child at the mall on the phone with someone
Final score:
9points
#12
When I was a teenager I went to get a glass of water late at night and heard my parents talking about our bank account.
Preface: We were a lower working class family, and throughout my childhood I had a fear that one day we would be completely broke and was just getting over that fear. The worry in my dad's voice brought all those fears back to me and to this day I am terrified my money will somehow be gone when I wake up
Final score:
8points
#13
Literally today when I was in Social Studies, we were labeling countries and their capitals using an atlas. Brazil was one of them. I heard one of my classmates in a desk behind me say
“Oh my god I almost forgot that they don’t speak Brazilian, it’s Portuguese!”
Final score:
8points
#14
Not really overhearing, but I was camping with friends a while ago and then I suddenly hear "imma stick my finger in the thingy!", I whirled around in confusion and asked, horrified, what she said.
She repeated herself, and then pointed (you'll never guess it) at a sea anenome (spelling that weird I bet).
Anyway, she was gonna put her finger in the sea anenome, still weird, but less weird than the thingy.
Final score:
7points
#15
honey, why did you clean the whole house yesterday just so you can flip everything upside down all over again? you need to get your anger issues sorted (the lady then smashed a couple glasses on the floor and walked out)
Final score:
6points
#16
"What does this colour smell like to you?"
Final score:
6points
#17
Two people at my school, two girls/
Girl 1: Ooh, I'm going to spank the [Equinus Asinus] off your legs.
Girl 2: *I forget what she said but it was something not that important*
Girl 1: I'm just kidding. I wouldn't spank you without that s*xy consent.
What the hell?!
Final score:
3points
#18
I witnessed someone’s breakup at The Great Escape when I was 10, a woman said “even after all the sh*t we went through you’re breaking up with me?”
Final score:
3points
Cassette Meower (Submission author) 2 years ago
Craaaaap it posted twice, not sure how to delete the duplicate. Sorry
#19
I witnessed someone’s breakup at The Great Escape when I was 10, a woman said “even after all the sh*t we went through you’re breaking up with me?”
Final score:
2points
#20
I was helping out at a charity event and went to the bathroom for a bit of a rest. . .
I heard a woman enter the next cubicle with a small child as she sat down to have a wee the child said …
Mummy ….
Why do you have a moustache…There ?
She replied that everyone gets one when they are grown up which I thought was a pretty clever reply but …
The child was silent for a few moments and then I heard him say
“ Does It Have Teeth “ ?
Dont ask me what she replied because I was too busy laughing. !
Final score:
2points
#21
I was at school in science class and I heard a person behind me say "do all Australians have kangaroos for pets" I broke out in laughter and got detention....
Final score:
2points
#22
I was walking home from school and these dudes were talking about something i over heard this part ‘dude you seriously need to try this it’s so good! I didn’t know it would taste so good, especially from her thing’ 💀💀
Final score:
1point
#23
I've over heard a couple this year.
1.) In line at grocery store, a Mom and Dad. Dad is acting kind of restless and holding a prescription bag from the pharmacy while Mom is checking out. The cashier keeps eyeballing the Dad, and their daughter who was made 8-9 years old says with a straight face, "Daddy has hemorrhoids."
2.) On a walk, passing 2 teenagers - "I dunno how they fly, I'm not that smart!"
3.) Leaving an exam room at a doctor's office and passing another room as a nurse was coming out - "You want me to put the what on the where now?"
4.) My taxi driver on Bluetooth - "No! I will drown you in your own blood!" There was a pause as he was listening, then he said, "Okay then!" and hung up with a huge sigh. I asked if everything was okay, and he said, "It better be, that was my son in law." I stayed quiet after that.
5.) Overheard in the DVD section of my local library - I assume a grandmother (60's maybe) and a young boy (10-12?) -
Boy - "So Spock is an Elf?"
Grandmother - "No, he's a Vulcan."
Boy - "But he has pointed ears!"
Grandmother - "Vulcans have pointed ears."
Boy - "But they're not elves?"
Grandmother - "I blame your mother."
Final score:
1point
#24
This happened in high school. I never overheard it but, someone else did and told me. Background info first. One day, just before school was to start, I was walking to my homeroom and I saw a student (who I'll call John) wearing tribal warpaint on his face standing there with a pissed off look. When I got in the classroom, I questioned another student and he told me that the day before John and another student got into a verbal altercation of some kind and the student threatened to tear John's face off. A physical altercation did ensue which I thankfully never heard or saw but, John was expelled. Don't remember what happened with the other student though.
Final score:
0points
#25
“I have a bigger c**k, so I have a better chance to impress Taylor swift.”
-some 8yo boy in the park. Friggin weird.
Final score:
0points
#27
I was with my daughters at the zoo and we were walking through the Polar Exhibition. We stopped to look at the penguins. Their enclosure is actually outside, with a nice large pool and a very low fence.
Little Boy: Nana, are penguins birds?
Nana: Yes.
Little Boy: So .... why don't they just fly away?
Nana: The zookeepers clip their wings so they can't fly.
Final score:
0points
#28
Final score:
-3points
Contented potato. (They/them) 2 years ago
Engaging right to the end. I need to know what happens next
What do you think ?
Tabitha Frost 2 years ago
I once overheard these two teenage boys talking and one of them says quietly "Oh I really wanted to lick it, but it was already wet." I don't want to know what they were talking about.💀
Tabitha Frost 2 years ago
I once overheard these two teenage boys talking and one of them says quietly "Oh I really wanted to lick it, but it was already wet." I don't want to know what they were talking about.💀
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