December Daily 12-5-2022 (belated)

[kitewithfish]

December Meme! mergatrude - Top five things you have overheard

- The difficult to summarize but intricately complicated of this one woman's five year old's kindergarten class drama. There were betrayals and backstabbings and plots, and it truly justified my decision to take the bus that day.

- I hate to say, but between having worse-than-average-but-not-technically-medically-concerning hearing, and wearing headphones a good deal of the time, I honestly do not overhear much. And then I don't remember it for memes! Which is a shame upon my house. 




In unrelated news, I sprung for a paid Dreamwidth account and am now very pleased to have a bevvy of icons to play with. 

Comments

[cephy]

Icons! So much fun, I really need to make/find some new ones to refresh my selection.

[tellshannon815]

I have the maximum possible icons, and yet I still have more shows I really want icons of. I think I will have to do some icon housekeeping soon.

I remember on one train journey, I knew the entire life story of the noisy family behind me by the time I got off - it was a father who had access to his children for the Easter holidays, and by the end of that journey I knew his wife had run off to Scotland with someone called Graham, that father got very angry when one of the children called him Graham by mistake -"Don't call me Graham, he's your stepfather! And I am not your father, I am your daddy!" the children played on it a bit and said they'd get Graham to smack him on the bottom after he told them off. They also started bugging some medical student from Aberdeen who they somehow got the idea was a policeman, and Daddy asked this guy to play along with it to get them to behave.

Different journey, mother to two year old: "Stop fucking swearing or I'll slap your fucking arse!" Hmm, I wonder where he picked that up?

[tropicsbear]

Oh, the kindergarten drama!

I once overheard a woman talking to her son on the phone while he hung out with his dad. Plot twist 5 minutes into the call: She and the dad were separated and the kid was over there for the weekend, but the dad was too busy drinking with his friends? another woman instead of looking after their kid.

[nerakrose]

I have shit hearing and very rarely overhear things, but I did once overhear the funniest argument between two people who did not understand they were talking about two very different things. it was in Danish and the lynchpin of the argument was two words that are spelled the same but are pronounced slightly differently and have obviously very different meanings.