Woman listens in on conversation, writes letter about it

News.

Quite nice IMO

than 500 people responded to the post, including Catherine Marshā€, who wrote: ā€œMy eyes a watering and I’m not entirely sure why.ā€

:roll_eyes:

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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.

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Maybe she’s Italian.

Hey! I’m a chopping onions here!

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Take it to the evening thread.

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.

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

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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 ā€œand now we’ve got to go and get some dog food.ā€, to which the kid replied, with relish ā€œyes, otherwise the dog will DIE!ā€

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

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

Big Brother state

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 ā€œthose droppings are far too easy for meā€ because I like to easdrop on people A LOT but I like a challenge

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

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

Well frankly this is some made-up shit

Origin

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

So I guess you can write what you like really.

upsardropi

100% some Norwegians taking the piss.

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

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.