It can happen on public transport, while you’re at a cafe, while you’re simply out doing the shopping… you hear something so funny or ridiculous, you have to bite your lip to keep from laughing.
We’ve all heard a few crackers. What’s the funniest conversation you’ve overheard recently in Melbourne?
Funniest thing I’ve heard was a bit unsavoury, but here it comes anyway:
Early-20′s hipster woman on tram 109 after long silence: “I heard they killed Saddam Husein the other day?”
Early-20′s dowdy-chic woman friend: “Yeah, they did. He was hung”
Hipster: “Reeeeaallly? What a waste!”
Dowdy: “What? Why is it a waste?”
Hipster: “I’d love to date a hung guy” *giggle*
Dowdy: “Oh my god. No I meant they HUNG HIM?”
Hipster paused for a moment, went bright red and didn’t speak until they both got off at Smith St.
I have one more, although it’s about 1.5 years old. Whilst in transit from St Kilda East to the CBD, a group of teenage girls got on the tram. They were all very excited and were cooing over the new handbag one of the girls had purchased earlier that day (they spoke very loudly so I became intimately aware of their recent activities). One girl says “Oh my god. I, like, really love your bag. Which designer is it?”
The owner of the bag replies, “Guess.”
“I don’t know?” says the curious friend.
“Guess!”
“I don’t know? Ummm, is it, ummm, like, I don’t know!”
“GUESS!” all the others yelled in unison.
With a tremor in her voice, the visibly upset girl yells, “look, I don’t know so just TELL ME?!”
The owner of the hand bag said, “it’s a GUESS bag you IDIOT!”
I felt sorry for the enquirer, but only for about 42 miliseconds after which time I grinned on the inside whilst shaking my head on the outside.
This I heard on a tram.
An attractive girl in her early 20s got on the tram and after finding a seat opposite me pulled out her bright pink mobile phone. Across the back of the mobile phone she had diamantes that spelt out PARIS (classy!). A not particularly attractive 20 something guy sitting next to me attempts to make conversation with the girl, she’s polite and only half answering his questions until he makes a comment about her phone and asks her why she has the word PARIS on it. Her reply “because I love Paris! It’s my favourite country!!”. I burst out laughing but neither of them knew why.