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You just never know what you might hear someone else say when you purposely or inadvertently listen in on their conversation.
And these AskReddit users have some stories to tell!
Read on to see what they had to say about the most messed-up things they’ve overheard people say.
1. Tragic.
“Like 25 years ago I’m pumping gas at a Citgo on 146 just outside of Worcester and a guy on a pay phone is shouting into his phone ‘No Jenny, you’re getting an ab**tion. We can’t have a baby. I drive a Buick LeSabre.’
He had an extremely Boston accent and the whole thing was just a perfect tragedy.”
2. Oh, man…
“How my dad d**d!
When I was younger I was being babysat by a neighbour and long time family friend, I was upstairs playing when I decided to go downstairs for some reason, while walking down the stairs i over heard neighbour talking to her sister and telling her that my dad had k**led himself.
I was fairly young at this stage and wasn’t sure what it meant fully but had an idea, never said anything to the neighbour and didn’t bother to tell my mom until a few years ago about what I’d heard!”
3. Awful.
“I just took a kitten trapped outside in a carrier the last couple days with no food, water, or litter box.
It belonged to my downstairs neighbor and I overheard from my window their son telling other kids not to touch it because his mom threw it away. I look out my window and there’s the carrier next to the trashcan with her crying in the cage.
I took the kitten at night and have her eating and drinking. She’s skin and bone, I can feel them all. She’s purring at my feet right now, playing and giving me headbutts.”
4. The breakup.
“I overlooked someone breaking up their marriage of 15 years over Whatsapp.
It was surreal.
I could see the guy’s messages coming in and he was going crazy.”
5. Bartending.
“When I used to bartend I overheard a few regulars (rich guys, finance guys) whom I knew fairly well, talk about their yearly “fishing trip” in the Bahamas.
They rent a yacht and don’t bring their wives. I’m not sure how much fishing is actually happening because the kept describing the South American pr**titutes that come on board for a couple of the days.
They each get their own and it’s apparently a tax write off too because it’s a business trip. Felt super weird because I know their wives and serve them occasionally too.”
6. The stepdad.
“A few years back, I heard my stepdad talking to my mother about me.
He called me a little b**ch and I was like 11.
The last time I heard about him was that he was found in some m**h den.”
7. Wow.
“Just last week I overheard an old man telling an old woman next to me in a cafeteria “I have a very bad temper, he hit me and I stepped on his head”.”
8. Jeez, lady…
““I just can’t believe they breed like that. They really should be exterminated” -lady at grocery.
Then she follows up “I just h**e my daughter’s guinea pigs”…”
9. Ouch.
“Worst one is probably on family vacation, I overheard my father explaining to my cousin who was the same age as me (18, just fresh out of school) that my life is totally pointless because my older brother has already achieved all the goals a son should so there’s no point in me at all.”
10. Disgusting.
““I don’t clean up cat barf. We used to let our dog eat it, then when she got too old and deaf to hear the cat barfing, we’d lead her to it so she’d eat it.””
11. Arsonist.
““I know dad had that boy k**led. He said he had nothing to do with it, but he definitely did.”
My grandma talking to my great aunt about an arsonist who burned down a bunch of houses until he burned down one of my great grandpa’s friends house.
Then they found him d**d inside of an abandoned house that he supposedly set on fire and couldn’t get out.”
12. Stay away from this guy.
“I was once on a train from Birmingham to my home town, a journey of about 45 minutes.
For the first 10 minutes there’s this guy at the back of the carriage having a really loud phone conversation with his brief (lawyer) about an upcoming case where it was clear that he was being told the evidence against him was certain to see him sent down and he was having none of it, just aggressively telling them that they’d best keep him out of prison and not listening to a word they said, clearly and getting more agitated.
As soon as this call ended he began a series of calls where he screamed at people to find this guy by the time the train reached its destination, after which he was going to “s**b him in the f**king neck”. Calls were made to the intended target where he screamed the same, to what sounded like the target’s girlfriend and family members, to people he thought could locate him.
It was basically half an hour of this crazed psycho yelling into a phone about the impending v**lence that he was bringing. Just call after call of it, at full volume in a train with perhaps a dozen or so other people. It was like an overly long and extremely uncomfortable scene from a movie.”
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