Firstly, I do know that snooping in on other people's conversations is pretty rude, but some people (like me) are just too loud and you can't help but listen in - especially when they're on the bus. One day this week was a particular cracker as I had a canny bit of time out on the buses and heard allsorts - it was truly fantastic. I do follow a twitter account @busoverheards which has some funny anecdotes on it and whoever does it, is very funny and some of them are spot on and make me chuckle.
So there I am, sat on the bus and waiting to leave a well know North East bus station that has a pub nearby. There's a man and a woman sat a couple of rows in front of me and the guy notices his Dad stood outside said pub and then points him out to the young lady and then goes onto explain who all the other people are stood in the group. One of the group (and I can't remember her name, thankfully) was pointed out as the Dad's ex-partner, but he doesn't have much to do with her now as she's turned into a lesbian ! A cracking fact, I'm sure, but not sure that half a bus needed to know and I bet everyone was thinking the same as me - how do you turn into a lesbian ?
Anyway, moving on and I was relatively close to home when a lady with a pushchair gets on the bus. She did look a bit harassed and the driver was brilliant as he was really patient as she couldn't find her ticket and he then waited until she was fully seated before moving off. Top customer service I thought and then her phone rings and the bus turns into Jeremy Kyle live. The conversation started on how badly on of her children was behaving at school and how she was going to go into the school to find out what was going on as it wasn't good enough. We then took a quick turn onto the kid not seeing enough of its father and that one visit in 4 months wasn't good enough and she was probably dead right. There was talk of legal advice, contact centre's, interfering relatives and all sorts, but all at a volume where the whole bus could hear. The convo then took a turn for the worse as there where comments about her previous partner being abusive and she didn't want to see him and that she had mental health issues as a result of the relationship - we're now in real Jeremy Kyle country ! At that point, I noticed that the pushchair was empty - Christ on a bike, have her mental health issues taken over and she's left the poor bairn somewhere - surely not !!! Sadly, though, we'll never know as I had to get off and this poor woman was still bleathering away at hundreds of decibels on her mobile. I felt sorry for her as she seemed really stressed, but I still don't think the whole bus needs to know the details.
The final bit of bus overheard humour was with a couple of young lasses who were talking about a text one of them had received from "Dominic" telling her that he wanted nowt more to do with her - now, I was thinking that might be son & heir's mystery female and he's bombed her oot ! I did ask him when I got home, but it was nowt to do with him, but this poor Dominic was getting slagged off something rotten by these two lasses, tremendous stuff.
The irony is that one of my work colleagues is obsessed with not talking too loud on the bus, especially if your discussing something about work. I think he's got it spot on, as some people are just really loud on the bus and you just don't want to know what they're talking about.
Sometimes, it can be just too much, but I do like a bit of Jeremy Kyle, just not on the bus !
So there I am, sat on the bus and waiting to leave a well know North East bus station that has a pub nearby. There's a man and a woman sat a couple of rows in front of me and the guy notices his Dad stood outside said pub and then points him out to the young lady and then goes onto explain who all the other people are stood in the group. One of the group (and I can't remember her name, thankfully) was pointed out as the Dad's ex-partner, but he doesn't have much to do with her now as she's turned into a lesbian ! A cracking fact, I'm sure, but not sure that half a bus needed to know and I bet everyone was thinking the same as me - how do you turn into a lesbian ?
Anyway, moving on and I was relatively close to home when a lady with a pushchair gets on the bus. She did look a bit harassed and the driver was brilliant as he was really patient as she couldn't find her ticket and he then waited until she was fully seated before moving off. Top customer service I thought and then her phone rings and the bus turns into Jeremy Kyle live. The conversation started on how badly on of her children was behaving at school and how she was going to go into the school to find out what was going on as it wasn't good enough. We then took a quick turn onto the kid not seeing enough of its father and that one visit in 4 months wasn't good enough and she was probably dead right. There was talk of legal advice, contact centre's, interfering relatives and all sorts, but all at a volume where the whole bus could hear. The convo then took a turn for the worse as there where comments about her previous partner being abusive and she didn't want to see him and that she had mental health issues as a result of the relationship - we're now in real Jeremy Kyle country ! At that point, I noticed that the pushchair was empty - Christ on a bike, have her mental health issues taken over and she's left the poor bairn somewhere - surely not !!! Sadly, though, we'll never know as I had to get off and this poor woman was still bleathering away at hundreds of decibels on her mobile. I felt sorry for her as she seemed really stressed, but I still don't think the whole bus needs to know the details.
The final bit of bus overheard humour was with a couple of young lasses who were talking about a text one of them had received from "Dominic" telling her that he wanted nowt more to do with her - now, I was thinking that might be son & heir's mystery female and he's bombed her oot ! I did ask him when I got home, but it was nowt to do with him, but this poor Dominic was getting slagged off something rotten by these two lasses, tremendous stuff.
The irony is that one of my work colleagues is obsessed with not talking too loud on the bus, especially if your discussing something about work. I think he's got it spot on, as some people are just really loud on the bus and you just don't want to know what they're talking about.
Sometimes, it can be just too much, but I do like a bit of Jeremy Kyle, just not on the bus !
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