Flower Smellers & eavesdropping!
August 4th, 2007 by JimHave you ever eavesdropped on someone else’s conversations? It’s a dirty little habit that’s hard to break, especially if you are stuck in the same space with a couple of fellows or ladies who are speaking rather loudly, like say the elevator? One can close their eyes to inappropriate things but its hard to close one’s ears…
Our fellow flower smeller over at EavesDrop Writer makes it a habit to listen in on what others are saying. It helps her in creating interesting characters for her writing. She also posts some of the more interesting conversations she hears on her blog so Go! have a good giggle or two on us.
Why is it though that women tend to have the ability to listen to 2 or 3 converstations whilst looking like at least they’re tuned into just one,which is all that most men can handle? Do women have better listening skills?
I’ve done that before. It’s really hard not to listen in sometimes and on occasion I just sort of feel like, ‘well, if you’re going to talk that loudly in public people are bound to eavesdrop!@!!’.
It’s really difficult when someone is “OH MY GOD-ING”, and “SHUT UP!”, “ARE YOU SERIOUS!?” How can you help but listen, especially someone shouting on their cellphone in a quiet little Italian restaurant..
Can’t say I do that, then again all the conversations here in Changchun are in Chinese so its pretty easy to ignore.
If I go to Shanghai I do tend to find that I need to leave certain bars, either that or ram a cell phone up some fat yanks arse - ‘It’s like sooooo mad here Chip, you would naaaaaaaaaaaat believe what I saw yesterday, it was like sooooooo wild man’ either that or some junior clerk talking about a ‘major investment’
Shut up you calorie rich, self centred gimp.
So GIC - you’re not a big fan of loud Americans in China then? No eaves droping, just leaving the bar! OMG.
Its better than battering them with their phones prior to carrying out the rectal insertion mentioned previously.
I did belt one a few years ago, he dropped like a brick clutching his jaw, but that was because of something else. Trouble was he had a mate in the bar I hadn’t seen so I got a very brave punch on the back of the head prior to them both being thrown out. Leaving is better.
Hello Go! Smell the Flowers! It’s me, eavesdrop writer, chiming in to say thanks for the mention here on your wonderful blog. I like the question you pose about women’s listening skills. Personally, the fact that I am nosy allows me to process multiple conversations at once! I don’t know how much my gender or my listening skills factor in.