overheard!! (and it made me feel fine)

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behind a hedge as i walked by on sunday morning:
a small person's voice (aged approx 7) saying aloud to himself: "ahoy! arrrrrr! ahoy!! arrrr!"

on the bus behind me as i rode home today:
a small person's voice (aged approx 4) singing "a-bing-bing-bing a-bar-bar-urrr"

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

behind me on the train to anerley on sunday:
small person one (6, male): "someone in my class thinks you die when you get to 100! they don't know you don't! they don't know you go on to 101, 102, 103..."
small person two (5, female): "you're a liar! you're a LIAR!! i was in your class once - you could't see me b-but i was there for a bit of a day one time - and no one thinks that!!"

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll thank you not to eavesdrop on conversations between Matt DC and I thanks.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

that doesn't really make sense I know.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Look, mommy, Darth Vader is in Gaku's car!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

in front of me at the preview screening of SPICE WORLD, as the silvery winged-horse logo unfolds its wings before the film starts:
small person (8, female, quietly to self): "*WEARY RESIGNED SIGH* for goodness sake get ON with it!"

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, cute.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

a small person's voice (aged approx 4) singing "a-bing-bing-bing a-bar-bar-urrr"

Oh, I saw a wee kid in a buggy (aged approx 2, I guess, but I'm rubbish at guessing kids' ages) singing this and I despaired of the power of advertising.

Do/did they actually play the Crazy Frog thing on the radio with it being the No 1 single, or is it purely an adverts thing? If it was a radio hit, then, OK, not so despairing.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

(that was the Crazy Frog, wasn't it?)

Kids (or anyone) being pirates, however - classic with cherries on top.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

8-year-old: Momma, can I have fifty cents to buy a sticker from the machine?
mom: What did you do with that money I gave you yesterday?
8yo: I spent it.
mom: On what?
8yo: Rent.
mom: What???
8yo: I mean, nachos.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that kid already.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

a small person's voice (aged approx 4) singing "a-bing-bing-bing a-bar-bar-urrr"

at the taverna kyclades easter fap of destruction, we overheard a little kid who wouldn't stop singing the vonage yodel. ned, remember this?

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh good god. I tried to forget.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

he was cute!

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a theory that kids are only cute when they're doing non-cute stuff. Or maybe that's just my evil cynical nature rearing it's ugly, uncute head.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(of course this needn't just be abt kids you overheard, just things that pleased you)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The squeal of tires then the dump *crump* sound of impact. The tires alone are always a tease, like when you've got a sneeze coming on and then it goes away.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

At a relation's wedding recently.

Little 3-year-old girl's grandfather was up in the gallery at the back of the church, singing.

Loudly to her mum: "But mummy, how on earth will we get grandad down? He'll miss the wedding cake."

Church erupted.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly overheard, but also possibly intended for me: a man walking behind me on the seafront said quite calmly and evenly 'Thought control. Fascists in America and Japan.'
??

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That wasn't the man behind you, it was the voices that the CIA can put into your head!!!

;-)

― Tech Support Droid (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It did occur to me!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The squeal of tires then the dump *crump* sound of impact. The tires alone are always a tease, like when you've got a sneeze coming on and then it goes away.

OMG Sasha I do that too. I always ALWAYS listen with bated breath for the crump/crunch and it so rarely follows. The one time it did it was great - it was a huge stack round the corner from my old place in Canberra.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

(OK some dude got hurt so it wasnt great, but you know).

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I overheard this at Gospel Oak BR this morning:
Young man talking to young girl – “I’d like to be a hippy for 6 months…actually, I’d like to be everything for 6 months”.

― Robot warrior, warrior robot (alix), Monday, 3 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Very sensible.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Small boy, 4 or 5 sitting with his dad on the tram. First tram ride.
Boy - Why does the door open when the tram stops?
Dad - Because the driver pushes the button to make it open.
Boy - Why did that man pull the string?
Dad - To tell the driver to make the tram stop, and that also lets the driver know that he should open the door, too.
Boy - Dad, how do you make clouds?

I swear, the little boy didn't miss a beat. To date, the BEST thing I have ever overheard.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Not overheard but it cheered me up.

I was walking home in a foul mood after another rubbish day at work and there was an old lady and (I presume) her grandson aged around 6 walking in front of me. When I got level with them the boy started to speed up so he was in front of me so I sped up we had a little race to the end of the street, which he won. When I turned round his gran was smiling and the boy was chuckling away.

Cheered me right up.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

My two kids, in bed the other night, when they should have been asleep.

M: You can't say boobies
D: Why?
M: Dunno.
D: What about butt?
M: I think you can say butt.
D: Butt!
M: Sshh, I think someone's coming.
D: BUTT!
M&D: Hahahaha BUTT!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

guy at bus-stop: "I've got a rash on me nuts from all the walking".

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

That would be chicken dampsack or more commonly known as trench bag.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

So, can they say butt?

xpost

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

"David! David! David! I've got three kids at the door, they're all fully dressed, everything echoes, she's like screaming on the bed..."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

In Tate Modern:

Small child: Is this still art, mummy?
Mother (in weary tones): I'm afraid it is dear.

― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

50 year old businessman on train to St Pancras, in the midst of discussing forthcoming high powered business meeting with colleague: OH LOOK A DIGGER!!!!! Yes, just like the old Fast Show sketch.

― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 9 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Years ago, my ex and I were walking our Doberman Pinscher in a park. We heard a group of young kids talking some yards away:

First kid: "Look! It's a Doubleman Pinscher!"
The other kids: "DOBERMAN pinscher, you idiot! HA HA!!! HE SAID DOUBLEMAN!!! HAHAHAHA. DOUBLEMAN!!!!

They approach us in a group.

One of the mean kids: "What kind of dog is that?"
My ex: "A Doubleman Pinscher."

One of the best things he ever did. Not enough to save the relationship, but still.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Girl in Buchanan Street to elderly mother: "But I *do* like obscure music, mum, I mean, you've never heard of British Sea Power, they're obscure".

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I think just hearing some kid call their mother "mum" is funny.

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm from the states

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

elderly mother: British Sea Power? You mean that band I saw with your father in some basement venue in Reading, just before he passed away? Pah, they're not obscure...

― angle of d... (tingo), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

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