Overheard yesterday:
Just as I got home yesterday, there was a man walking along the street talking on his phone.
"Hiya," he said to whomever was on the other end. "I've just been mugged. Will you ring the police for me?"

I can make no sense of this whatsoever. Any ideas?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:38, 21 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Maybe he didn't know the number
For 'em.
As in local police, not "999".
( Cawl, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:39, Reply)

Possible, I suppose...
... though there's a police station about 100m from where we were.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:48, Reply)

the best thing I ever overheard was
"I don't know what he's so bothered about it was only a tit wank"

I was tempted to follow the guys who said it to find out more.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:40, Reply)

Oh and the guy who refills the vending machines forgot to log out of it,
I just set the price of a packet of crisps and a bottle of coke to 10p each.

Take that "The Man"
(PsychoChomp, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:42, Reply)

Whoa,
You're like an Office Hero.
And I thought my day was good when I got two cans of coke somehow on one button-press.
( Cawl, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:43, Reply)

I'm not going to tell anyone else though,
or else they'll be gone by tuesday.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:44, Reply)

That's fair enough.
You could always buy the lot, and store them in your desk.
( Cawl, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:46, Reply)

Then the coke would be room temperature
I'M NOT WILLING TO TAKE THAT RISK!
(PsychoChomp, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:47, Reply)

This is an excellent point.
Plus you'd look like a right porkins if you were wandering around with an armful of crisps.
( Cawl, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:49, Reply)

Not in comparison to some of the Whales that work here.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:51, Reply)

This whole thread is making me so happy.

(Richard Earl of Cambridge Cruel, Savage, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 11:08, Reply)

Stop that pandering

(Bazongaloid, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 11:10, Reply)

( Cawl, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 11:22, Reply)

Best 'overheard' I had
was two black girls on the bus discussing those 'wannabe-black' Asian kids.

Their name for them?

'Bollywogs'. Utter genius.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:43, Reply)

last night two guys and a girl were having a full on aggro shouting match in my front drive
they sounded like they were about to punch each other and the girl kept saying "stop shouting at me"

I opened the window so I could here what was going on and they seemed to be having a perfectly normal conversation with each other but totally aggro like they hated each other. The end of the convo for example was "Right I got to go call me tomorrow" "Ok can I stay at your place" "Yeah sure, laters" but all shouted in a voice that would have more suited "I'm going to fucking chin you" "Yeah you and whose army fuckface!"
( Peej, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:53, Reply)

DId it get your wife really hot?

(Bazongaloid, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 10:57, Reply)

Nope but ym did
;)
( Peej, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 11:11, Reply)

She's such a filthy ho

(Bazongaloid, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 11:19, Reply)

I like ho-hos
/white trash food
( thealternativefact, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 11:22, Reply)

The best conversation I've overheard was between two old ladies on the tram.
Two old ladies discussing whether or not to eat a whole quiche or half a quiche between them for dinner that night. This went on for alot longer than you'd imagine. With many uses of the phrase "lovely quiche".
( BindiBaji, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 14:23, Reply)

The other day
on my way back from work I passed a lad standing on the pavement with his bewildered dog, having a shouty argument into his phone. I walked past and a little further on around the corner, past the big bed and breakfast house, I saw a girl having a shouty argument into her phone. They were out of earshot of one another but for a moment I could hear both of them and noticed that they were actually arguing with each other. I stopped for a little while to try and make out what the argument was about. I wanted to go up to the girl and tell her that if she walked 100 yards down the road they could argue face to face, if she wanted. And then I wondered whether perhaps one of them had lied to the other about where they were, having no idea that one bed and breakfast house was all that separated them. Eventually I lost interest and went home. Perhaps the disagreement escalated until they were shouting loud enough to realise that they didn't actually need their phones for the argument.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 20:43, Reply)