Five Things You Learned From Unintentional Eavesdropping

[Crothian]

I'm female enough without going drag, thanks...

Wow, now I'm imagining you going drag...thanks....

 

[Xath]

Wow, now I'm imagining you going drag...thanks....

So...drag for me would be pants, right?

Or would I be pulling a Victor/Victoria?

 

[Crothian]

So...drag for me would be pants, right?

Or would I be pulling a Victor/Victoria?

I was thinking a tux with a shaved head actually.....

 

[Xath]

I was thinking a tux with a shaved head actually.....

Hijack: Ha, I'm not allowed to cut my hair. It's my boyfriend's surrogate hair since he's in the army and can't grow his out.

Every time I talk about donating to Locks of Love, he cringes and gets all mopey.


On-Topic: Trying to think of more eavesdroppings as to un-hijack the thread.

Once a new guy came into the shop, and I already knew so much about him from gossip, that I think I freaked him out by revealing bits of information. Then I welcomed him, and told him what he could expect. Like "there's no such thing as a secret when a bunch of women are sitting around and sewing."

 

[Crothian]

Ha, I'm not allowed to cut my hair. It's my boyfriend's surrogate hair since he's in the army and can't grow his out.

Every time I talk about donating to Locks of Love, he cringes and gets all mopey.

that's funny..so you've been growing it out since Gen Con? How long is it now?

 

[der_kluge]

This isn't an eavesdropping story, but it could have been for someone. My wife and I had just eaten at a Pizza Hut, and I went up to the front to pay, and I handed the guy my debit card, and he takes it, walks over to the machine, swipes it, comes back, hands me my card and says with a straight face "My wife just left me for my brother."

What ensued was one of the weirdest conversations I'd ever had with anyone. I learned that he'd had a vasectomy, and that it was cheaper to get one, than to remove one. I learned what his wife did, what his brother did, what his lawyer had said, how much his lawyer cost, how much everyone made, where he lived, what drugs various people were taking. It was... incredible. My wife and I still joke about that *incident*.


I was working late one night, and this IBM guy that was sitting on the other aisle got a call from his wife. His phone had been ringing frequently with no answer (he was away from his desk). The conversation went like this (one-sided):
- hello
- of course I'm at work.
- where else would I be?
- No, I'm not having an affair
- of course I love you
- can't we have this conversation some other time?
- No, I've been here the entire time.
- No, I don't know when I'll be home.

This went on for quite some time. I felt sorry for the guy.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

That's the point of the Humor flag; I was being sarcastic,

I missed the humor tag and didn't pick up on the sarcasm, sorry.

I learned what it is like to deal with two teenage kids at home. A former co-worker used to get calls on his cellphone from one of his kids complaining about what the other one was doing. Sometimes he would go into an office and close the door, but it didn't help much you could still hear him shouting. "Steven! Steven! Give your sister her book! Do you want me to come home and take care of this?! Put your sister on!..."

 

[Steve Jung]

In college, my roommates and I had a police scanner and a Radio Shack frequency guide. It was like a radio soap opera for us. Even funnier, we were trying out a couple walkie-talkies and we captured a phone conversation. We listened for a while and eventually used the talk button to break in with random radio-sounding chatter.

Ever since then I don't mention personal info on a cordless phone.

 

[Aeson]

In college, my roommates and I had a police scanner and a Radio Shack frequency guide. It was like a radio soap opera for us. Even funnier, we were trying out a couple walkie-talkies and we captured a phone conversation. We listened for a while and eventually used the talk button to break in with random radio-sounding chatter.

Ever since then I don't mention personal info on a cordless phone.

I used to do that. I don't think you can do it with new phones.

 

[Bront]

I have heard:

1) "Marijuana doesn't effect my... um... well doesn't effect me."
2) From what I could tell, the man's wife ran off with his sister
3) That the most expensive part of a fountain drink is ice
4) The Domain Admin Password
5) That "Natural Flavors" actualy represents how you can have things like bug parts, rat hairs (and feces), and other stuff, up to a certain ammount, in any food and still have it be viable (For example, I believe it's 13 rat hairs per 5 galons of corn syrup), but must be accounted for in the ingrediants.