What are some conversations you've overheard that you will never forget?

[Gargoyle]

I'm sure we've all heard one or two conversations that still live rent-free in your head and refuse to leave. It might be something that has impacted you in some way or it might just be something silly. Anyways, do you have some convos that have stuck with you through the years?

Spoiler: My answer

I went to a middle school in a really shitty part of the city and as a result there were a lot of fucked people. The convo that I can't forget happened between four of the 'popular girls' from my class in a locker room when we were changing into sports clothes before PE class. I don't remember any direct quotes but some of the highlights are:
1. One girl has admitted to "dating" and fucking a 28 year old guy in exchange for gifts, alcohol and cigarettes.
2. Some other girl said that she was concerned about her boyfriend not loving her to which the aforementioned girl chastised her and said that he didn't love her because she didn't want to fuck him.
3. They all discussed them having regular parties at some drug dealer guy's apartment and a plan of how they are going to set the next party logistically so that their parents won't notice they're gone.

If you are wondering why it has stuck with me, it's because - one - we were all 13 years old at that time and - two - my mum is relatively conservative and obviously I was following her example so this unapologetic bragging about being junkies and whores shocked me. Now, you might say that they were just talking outta their asses but, believe me, I also went to the same primary school with all those girls and I spent three years with them in middle school and I am 100% confident that this was something they were actually doing.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I overheard some guys hacking the cafeteria vending machine in middle school. They started offering random people free food. I refused because I didn't want to take stolen food.

Also in middle school, I overheard some girls talking about how a classmate had been pregnant twice already. This was in 6th grade.

 

[Gargoyle]

@Gargoyle re: your first post, I heard a conversation very similar while I was at high school too. I was listening to some older girls- I'm guessing they were fourteen or fifteen- discussing their twenty five year old boyfriends. I'm absolutely appalling with faces, but even back then I was struck by the blankness in the eyes of one of the girls when she said, "They are perverts... but they give you a lot of stuff." And then jammed a cigarette in her mouth.

A bit off the rails, one would say.

Damn, that's really terrifying. I wonder to what degree teenaregs like that are aware that they are basically prostitutes. Like, are they naive enough to truly believe that they are in a legit relationship? It's really fucking sad because all of those things that "matter" socially in high school - like looking the best and having the best stuff - don't matter at all once you graduate, so people like this have basically fucked themselves up for a few years of being popular with other teenage retards.

You know, I was not very liked at school and it sucked for me at the time but now, years later, I am so grateful for that. I never did anything crazy and have turned out pretty okay. I just can't imagine how you are supposed to pick up the pieces of your dignity and live a normal life after being a teenage whore, alcoholic and junkie and all that purely for popularity which fades immediately after school.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

There's now a large (and loud) cohort of black people who've gotten into anime as adults.

Yes the people who watched anime as kids grew up and are now adults. People religiously spread the animes they loved when they were young and now others enjoy them. No shit it's ingrained into the culture now as anime has become widely accessible to english speakers.

Notice that most of the anime people promote are the same ones which were shown on Cartoon Network:
- Trigun
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Sailor Moon
- Dragon Ball
- Ghost in the Shell
- Naruto
- One Piece
- Bleach
- Outlaw Star
- Tenchi Muyo
- Gundam
- Cowboy Bebop
- Samurai Champloo
- Card Captor Sakura
- etc

It all comes back to Cartoon Network planting the seeds into a generation of weeaboos and normalization of japanese cartoons. Now even western animation and childrens products have adopted japanese art style concepts with shows like Avatar The Last Airbender, The Boondocks, and Teen Titans.

 

[Xolanite]

• Some guy drank so much powerade that his urine was purple.
• some girls talking about how drunk they would get off hurricanes and suicides. They were older than me and one was probably too old to be in high school
• my dad powerleveling about his youth on the phone

 

[9Style]

I was in highschool, walking home. On the way home there was an elementary school. Kids were leaving, a small group of boys were walking towards me probably 10 years old. As a pass them I hear "Yeah I totally fingered Jenny!"

 

[Boner Pill]

When I was 10 my family travelled across the country by bus (because we were poor) and just outside a Greyhound station in Montreal I overheard some bleach-blonde in cutoff jean shorts yelling "I'm not going to fuck some fat, hairy old man in the back of a van for $30!" at a guy who looked like Carl from ATHF. She was very loudly trying to negotiate for more money from her John in broad daylight in the middle of a major city. I was scandalized but looking back it was very funny.

 

[Broseph]

Not really a "conversation" but one of the weirdest things I ever overheard happened a few years ago when I was in the restroom at work and some guy ripped a huge fart that sounded exactly like Donald Duck.

 

[Jason Wynn]

got another one. It’s weird how the most mundane things will stick with you.

My brother and I had a mutual friend S. S was this big redneck kind of guy but very funny and laid back. My brother had a friend M who was in his full blown emo phase at this time. We were all staying at S’s house one night just hanging and M decided it’s time to go full angst sulk mode and leave the house to wander off and be mopey and miserable. We were all getting hungry around this time and S wanted to make a pizza. We decided to wait a bit and see if M would come back soon. He didn’t so we said fuck it and made the pizza and ate.

Right as we were finishing M walks back in, sees us eating and says in his sad sack voice “where’s my pizza?”

S just nonchalantly says “you don’t get any ‘cause you’re a bitch!”

Cracked me up and M storms off in a huff

 

[Feefee81093]

Alright. It's time I shared a story from cosmetology school. My school lost a large number of teachers in a short amount of time. In their place we received a recruiter, a sort of teacher's teacher. He was a horrible out of touch man with no awareness and possibly a sociopath. I've watched him cut a friend of mine I had cut before and he was gripping her cranium and being horrifically forceful. That's just putting him into perspective for the onlooker.

One of my dear friends new to the floor had finished her tasks for the day and she approached the man in question to request permission for a student service and he straight up put his hand in her face, walked away, and said, "I don't have time for this." The poor thing was so shaken. It took her time to even process what had happened.

No. I won't forget that.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Shit gets real weird real fast at the incense shop when you start hearing people behind you talk about their past lives and how they died.

 

[Skitarii]

I was at a party and my mate was tryna hit on a girl. They were talking about books and the chick thought she was the next agatha christie because she wrote star wars fanfictions

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

"I wish I could suck my own dick" from a guy in High School

"Man, I'd kill myself if I was black" also High School

"Maybe Brazillian women don't grow hair in those places?" , this was overheard on the street, with no context