November 10, 2004

Things you hear in passing can definitely pique your curiosity. We hear the most interesting things in the most everyday places--maybe on the tube or out in the city. Have you overheard anything that stirred your imagination lately? Have you caught an eavesdropper in the act? Maybe you're looking to do some serious listening in of your own...
posted by stray 20 years ago
  • Whoops! First (and favorite) link is a dud (yay, go me). Here 'tis: In Passing, and the second one...just add ".html" at the end. That's what you get from a sad little newbie poster, I suppose. How embarrassing.
  • Okay, that's it, I'm never posting again. Here's the other dud, Eavesdropper. *leaves in shame* :P
  • *eavedrops*
  • If it hadn't been for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college.
  • Lori: YES! That's exactly what I was going to post. :)
  • "I was in a band where we had a rule, all guitar or drum solos had to be at least one cigarette long... And I didn't even smoke." Lovely.
  • Thanks Stray! I love these, and collect them - I have several on my daily feeds. here's a couple others: We made out in a tree and this old guy sat and watched us Best title, not often updated, but rich archives. Don't miss the History section, where the name of the site is explained. Found Magazine is for found photos and notes, rather than quotes, but has a similar spirit.
  • Darn! Sorry, everyone, I hadn't read the rest of the front page to see that Found was already there.
  • One young gal to another in the line at the coffee shop at my college: "...and he just got out of prison so the sex was incredible."
  • "I say the directions were underspecified." "Yes, but since I was the one who said, 'get a room', I thought you'd realize that I didn't mean mine." --Two girls talking at Andronico's Reality is so very interesting.
  • Actually overheard by your Tenacious one (a cell phone conversation spoken at top volume by an overtanned blonde teen in the local Wal-Mart): I do NOT have crabs! Then, and only THEN, did she look around to see if anyone was listening.
  • Lori and iguana beat me to the punch.
  • I shit you not, sitting in a Friendly's on Long Island: "So there I was, Standing on the table, buck naked, with a feather duster sticking out of my ass!"
  • Guy wearing sweatsuit open at the neck to reveal thick gold chain, speaking in thick New York accent, at a sidewalk table outside Little Italy restaurant: ". . . thousands and thousands of rubbah gloves . . ."
  • Once, after a rehersal of the death scene in the play "Murder in the Cathedral", my friends and I (tall, hippy/punk teenagers) were in the bank, talking about the blocking: "Well, then Geordie slashed him up the front, and I stabbed him in the back, before he finally went down.." We then noticed a little old lady behind us, listening in. When she saw us noticed her, she gasped, stuffed her banking back in her tote, turned, and speedily shuffled out the back door.
  • Monkeys learn from their mistakes. Good post, Stray. Keep posting ;) Overheard in grocery store: Cheerful female voice: "Look, Chapstick's on sale." Serious male voice: "Oh, I never buy it. I just stick my finger in my ear and use ear wax." I didn't even turn around to see if the guy was joking.
  • Overheard in the Office Employee #1: Sometimes I just get caught up in all this stuff, it's so hectic. Employee #2: You have to stop once in a while and find some sunshine. Employee #1: I'd rather just find some moonshine. 50 West State Street Trenton, New Jersey
  • Overheard in the bedding department at Target yesterday, from a dude on a cell phone: "Oh, yeah, it was great. There was a band and strippers. But it was really embarassing, because..." And then he walked out of earshot.