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Of course I don't eavesdrop - well, not much - but sometimes you just can't help overhearing something that REALLY makes you wonder! I once caught the end of a conversation that concluded with a frustrated 'You're worse than the dog!' and passed by someone who observed 'I blame it on the spaghetti.'

Hahaha, that reminds me of something I would say to my husband when he, ummmmmm smells bad and tends to stink up the house. He usually has some random food to blame!

When I was in grad school, there was only one male student in my whole program. One day, a female professor called for students to help out with a research project she was working on, and he volunteered. The next day, he was telling some other classmates about it, and I overheard this:

Guy: She told me it wouldn't hurt, but it did!
Other random girl: **mumble mumble some unintelligible question*
Guy: It was really thick! I thought it would be smaller, but it was like this big around.
(I assume that he holds up his fingers in a ring to show the thickness)
Guy: Then she goes, "I'm going to put some Vaseline on it, so it slides in easy." But it didn't slide in easy at all. It hurt, really bad!
(The professor he was talking about happened to walk in the room at that exact moment, stopped, and just stared at us with wide eyes.)
Professor: It's not what you're thinking!

Turns out she had just put an endoscope up his nose to take a picture/video of his vocal chords.

ALynnPowers wrote:When I was in grad school, there was only one male student in my whole program. One day, a female professor called for students to help out with a research project she was working on, and he volunteered. The next day, he was telling some other classmates about it, and I overheard this:

Guy: She told me it wouldn't hurt, but it did!
Other random girl: **mumble mumble some unintelligible question*
Guy: It was really thick! I thought it would be smaller, but it was like this big around.
(I assume that he holds up his fingers in a ring to show the thickness)
Guy: Then she goes, "I'm going to put some Vaseline on it, so it slides in easy." But it didn't slide in easy at all. It hurt, really bad!
(The professor he was talking about happened to walk in the room at that exact moment, stopped, and just stared at us with wide eyes.)
Professor: It's not what you're thinking!

Turns out she had just put an endoscope up his nose to take a picture/video of his vocal chords.

Wuh-Oh! ALynn, that's shocking!! I loved it.

Today I overheard these two old grandpas at the table next to me at a restaurant talking about me in Japanese (they didn't think I could speak Japanese). They were wondering if I had a boyfriend.

Ooooh. I would've answered them in perfect, fluent Japanese. Please tell us you did so.

-- 17 May 2015, 22:53 --

I never overhear anything at all because I'm half-deaf. I WISH I could overhear stuff.

When my oldest son was around 15 or so I overheard a conversation he was having with a friend who was about the same age. They were bragging about all the girls they did and how they did what to who and how good it was and so forth. If either one of then had the chance at that age to hop in the sack with a hot young teen-age girl they would have probably run the other way. I didnt confront them, let them have their fantasy.