Friday February 5, 4:40pm
I’m sitting in my new hang out spot – Wake Up – with Alece (more on that later) beside me click click clicking away at her keyboard with earphones in.
I don’t have earphones – and I don’t have noisy keys (thanks to Steve Jobs) and I can’t help but hear what’s going on around me.
This blonde just walked in on the phone saying loudly: “What are you talking about??! Say what you’re trying to say to me!”
My mind is spinning with scenarios of what the person on the other end of the phone might be saying to her. I have my theories. I wanna ask Alece what she thinks is going on with this lady’s conversation. But those dang earphones… Oh well. Maybe I’ll just write a blog post about it. Maybe y’all will have ideas.
Do you? What do you think this convo could be about?
I’m just waiting for Alece to respond. I’m sure she will
why didn’t you ask me!? sassafrass.
i’d heard the same thing. even looked up because i needed to get a visual on who said it. and i remember being surprised that she was older than i expected her to be. and once i saw her age, my first guess was that she was talking to one of her kids. and that frustrated “edge” in her voice bothered me all the more then.
i wanna hear your theories. feel free to leave them in a comment, email them to me, text me, call, or, you know, tell me in person. because we like to maximize all forms of communication even when we’re hanging out together.
and even when i have headphones in.
lol
i LOVE when people graciously allow me to eavesdrop on their phone conversations.
i think she just got divorced. and is talking to her ex-husband about his weekend visit with the children as he tries to break it to her that he just introduced them to the “new” mommy.
scandalous.
Sounds like someone talking to their kiddo to me! Was she old enough for kids?
Maybe, just maybe she was involved in a scandal. It could’ve been a doctor calling to give her medical news…and she just wanted to know the just of it…I do hate when other beat around the bush!
We were at a restaurant in Orlando on a business trip…one of those hibachi tables. Well, half of our table and the other table were filled with people speaking…dutch? Anyways, all of the sudden one guy stands up at our table and slams his fist down and yells something….everyone starts crying…we were all wondering what in the world!! We figured from body language and pointing that it was geared towards one girl at our table. By the end people had walked out…cried through dinner and on and on. We were all lost!! In the end we got up to leave. I walked over to the girl who I thought was in the middle of it all and I hugged her! I told her I hoped she was okay. I think she thought I was nutty. Oh well!!! When we got in the car we all had our own ideas of what went on. I thought it was teenage pregnancy…my husband thought the dad was mad because they weren’t treating his daughter right. We all laughed as we each had totally different ideas of what happened.
Okay, this took a long time to explain! Oh well…I do the same thing…love to watch people and imagine what is going on!
I HATE IT when people eavesdrop.
Almost as much as I HATE GOSSIP.
ALMOST.
Nor:
If you are implying that I was eavesdropping on this conversation, I don’t think you are being fair. I looked up the definition: listening secretly to a private conversation.
She came into the coffee shop (a public area) talking so loudly that it was impossible not to hear her. There was nothing “secret” about overhearing her words. Everyone in the place heard her.
Good answer!
since i was sitting right next to you, i can attest to her loudness and the unavoidableness of the overhearing.
and i agree with jennifer — good answer!
for the record, not only was it not eavesdropping, i don’t think it was gossip either. gossip is about someone… and although this woman IS someone, none of us know who she is. you aren’t trying to tell us bad things about her and you aren’t hoping we find out who she is. you don’t know who she is.
i think you are just trying to have a fun & commentable post.
Thank you, Travis…
she does click click away on that computer…funny
ha ha ha! no you didn’t!
i’m cracking up over here!
When people talk out loud in public on the cellphone they are inviting everyone else to be a part of their conversation. Whether or not we want to hear it. I think if it’s a personal conversation that is the way it should stay.
The women is part of a relationship that has grown as cold as the winds outside Wake Up. They no longer seem to speak the same language, when they speak at all.
Her cell phone vibrates. It’s him!
“Stacy this can’t go on. We need to talk.”
Stacy, “What are you talking about??! Say what you’re trying to say to me!”
There is a pause on the line. Then “click”.
Stacy – Men! Well I still have some Wake Up coffee to keep me warm. Now what was the number of that lawyer?
Wow.
Um. No.
I wasn’t implying that at all.
Just kind of sort of trying to mention one my pet peeves is all…
Thanks for clarifying.