Woman listens in on conversation, writes letter about it

jordan_229 · 12 February 2018 15:56

News.

anon5266188 · 12 February 2018 15:58

Quite nice IMO

colinfilth · 12 February 2018 15:58

than 500 people responded to the post, including Catherine Marsh‏, who wrote: “My eyes a watering and I’m not entirely sure why.”

colinfilth · 12 February 2018 16:00

My train trips are also very inspiring. I think I will write some letters to some of the people on my commute, spelling out what I think of them.

Epimer · 12 February 2018 16:02

Maybe she’s Italian.

marckee · 12 February 2018 16:06

Hey! I’m a chopping onions here!

Epimer · 12 February 2018 16:07

Take it to the evening thread.

Im_On_Safari · 12 February 2018 16:10

Nobody ever speaks to me on public transport. Ever. Think it is because I am really big, quite miserable looking and probably quite intimidating.
It’s great.

meowington · 12 February 2018 16:11

I don’t need to write letters. I’m already too vocal with people on my commute.

colinfilth · 12 February 2018 16:15

Only a tenuous link here, because this was eavesdropping in a supermarket rather than on a train, but I was doing my shopping yesterday and this mum behind me said to her little boy something like “and now we’ve got to go and get some dog food.”, to which the kid replied, with relish “yes, otherwise the dog will DIE!”

sweetverbs · 12 February 2018 16:30

Marketing and comms director at a charity? Mentioning the charity in the letter? I am suspicious.

TKC · 12 February 2018 16:30

I would be very off put by someone writing my conversation down

Big Brother state

meowington · 12 February 2018 16:35

I always thought it was EASE dropping. I think I learnt that it was eavesdropping on this website.

Still call it easedropping. Or i like to sing THAT’S AN EASY DROPPING much like I sing SHE’S AN EASY PEELER SHE’LL HAVE A HOLD ON YOU BELIEVE ME

or i say “those droppings are far too easy for me” because I like to easdrop on people A LOT but I like a challenge

(sorry colin i’m following you around this thread)

colinfilth · 12 February 2018 16:35

It’d have been funny if when she was halfway through writing her note the conversation suddenly turned massively racist without warning.

colinfilth · 12 February 2018 16:39

Well frankly this is some made-up shit

Origin

early 17th century: back-formation from eavesdropper (late Middle English) ‘a person who listens from under the eaves’, from the obsolete noun eavesdrop ‘the ground on to which water drips from the eaves’, probably from Old Norse upsardropi, from ups ‘eaves’ + dropi ‘a drop’.

So I guess you can write what you like really.

Parsefone · 12 February 2018 17:15

upsardropi

100% some Norwegians taking the piss.

wonton · 12 February 2018 21:08

I like all the parts of the story that don’t involve her, basically. I like it when people get along.

wonton · 12 February 2018 21:10

Sometimes, if I’m feeling brave, I deliberately make a little more eye contact throughout the day, just so I can get a little small talk.