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Covert Ephgrave.

I’ve already discussed my love of overhearing snippets of conversation on this blog. I don’t seek them out in a voyeuristic, Chuck Berry video-camera-hidden-in-a-public-toilet type way (Google it); they just tend to follow me about. I’m always catching something that sounds bizarre, amusing or mundane out of context, and then tweeting it to remember it. It occurred to me today that, while I’ve documented some of my favourite unintentionally eavesdropped classics here before, I did it nearly two years ago. Bearing this in mind, see below for some of the best utterances I’ve accidentally monitored - and then less accidentally catalogued on Twitter - since October 2013; that’s very specific. "No amount of money would make me work on a Sunday. Unless you offered me five hundred quid." CHILD: "Can we see a clown?" MUM: "No. Sorry. There are no clowns about at the moment." "We're going t...