Snippets of a conversation
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
This snippet is from a few months ago. I heard it at the hairdressers.
Hairdresser: I like watching "Coronation Street" but not any of the other soaps in the evenings.
Customer: I have never watched Coronation Street. When it started up there was no electricity in our village.
Me:
followed by trying to stifle a giggle. 
Hairdresser: I like watching "Coronation Street" but not any of the other soaps in the evenings.
Customer: I have never watched Coronation Street. When it started up there was no electricity in our village.
Me:
followed by trying to stifle a giggle. Wow, that is a snippet that could shake your assumptions! It takes you some place else, exactly the sort of thing I love.
Why did you giggle? I'm interested , not critical BTW.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
My grandparents had one of those, and it was the first thing I drove.being a teenager that doesn't quite fit the norm and stereotypical teenager i find it fascinating what other teens get up to after school and at the week ends
also they hope to drive these super cars that cost hundreds of thousands of pounds where as i hope to drive
Cheers Ed
young Ed
Veteran
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I suppose I thought it was slightly amusing that "Coronation Street" started, I am guessing, in the early sixties of last century, and at any time over the past fifty years, she could have "joined in" if she wished. Then the more you try not to giggle the worse it gets,
so I pretended to have a slight coughing episode.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
My favorite overheard snippet of conversation was from when I was working at Norwich Union, in the sales department of NU Direct. I was walking through the office and heading for lunch at the time.
Telesales girl: Any medical conditions that are DVLA notifiable?
Customer: (well I couldn't hear but that's when they were talking to the lady)
Telesales girl: Oh, so is he blind in one eye or both of them then?
I have often wondered where that conversation was going.
Telesales girl: Any medical conditions that are DVLA notifiable?
Customer: (well I couldn't hear but that's when they were talking to the lady)
Telesales girl: Oh, so is he blind in one eye or both of them then?
I have often wondered where that conversation was going.
Yes, I can see how that could amuse someone. It paints another possible scenario.
That's why I like overhearing snippets; you fill in the missing bits based on your own suppositions & experiences etc. You'll probably never know if the picture you paint is real or not, but it reminds you that there are many possibilities.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
It's so long ago I can't remember and I'd have been in my early teens. I stood to inherit it, but recently my dad told me that he had sold it years ago. It used to live in a tumble down house on a piece of farmland my Dad owns in Co Tyrone, the sort of building where the animals had one room and the farmers a kitchen and bedroom, last lived in in the 1930's.did it have the heaviest steering you have ever experienced?
Cheers Ed
classic33
Leg End Member
being a teenager that doesn't quite fit the norm and stereotypical teenager i find it fascinating what other teens get up to after school and at the week ends
also they hope to drive these super cars that cost hundreds of thousands of pounds where as i hope to drive
Cheers Ed
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRgUpwNtXHQ
classic33
Leg End Member
did it have the heaviest steering you have ever experienced?
Cheers Ed
Could have been a 35. Unless it was grey.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
It was grey! I will see if I can find an old photo of it.
