Eavesdropping

I confess. I'm an eavesdropper. I find nothing wrong with it, as long the eavesdropper is only listening in on already public conversations, and as long as it's not being used as means to spread nasty gossip. Under these terms, I consider it harmless, free entertainment (similar to when I'm engaged in another great past-time: "people watching" -- i.e. watching random passersby while in public places). As a small experiment, I decided to spend 24 hours eavesdropping and some of what I overheard I wrote down. Most of what I recorded has little or no surrounding context, so these bits and pieces are open to various interpretations, especially when you're an imaginative person like myself. Through eavesdropping, I doubt that I'm likely to discover the wisdom of the ages, but, then again, you never know. . .

Here are some things I overheard during my short experiment:

Two ladies riding a bus to the ferry terminal where they'll be catching a ferry to Seattle. One says, "She drives me crazy. Every time she comes in, I leave my desk."

I went to a coffee shop for a very, very large coffee, two young female employees were talking about their previous evening. One of them says, "I met my boyfriend's brother last night. He was creepy. Kept being weird and trying to impress me."

Two men on foot, passing by me on their way to work at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA. One man declares, "Well, I could put bacon on it, but that's just going too far for me!"

While looking out the window of a city bus, a mother exclaimed to her toddler. "Look! Look! There's peoples everywhere!"

This youtube video shows a negative, yet comical, glimpse at an eavesdropper:

Until I type again,

Kami