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Tag: overheard

A Drink

“I was going to buy a drink but they wouldn’t take a card…”
- Girl, student bar, Cardiff.

Christian

“Surname?”
“Thomas.”
“Christian name?”
“Err, what do you mean?”
– Bank teller & customer

Woof

“Did you feel that? Woof! Someone just came in. Woof! Right over my head. That’s been happening a lot lately. Did you feel that?”
– Woman feeling a ‘presence’ enter a New Age shop, Brecon.

Yellow line

“No, no, you must follow the yellow line. Going that way is just wrong.”
- Lady shopper, Ikea.

Orange

“You can say ‘Orange’ as often as you bloody like, you’re not having anything orange in your bedroom!”
- Father to daughter, Ikea.

Devil

“He was laughing like the devil.”
- My mother.

Jane Garvey

“You did beat off a couple of men to get that job didn’t you?”
Jane Garvey (Woman’s Hour presenter), BBC Radio 4.

Chewy

“Hugh Baxter, we call him ‘Chewy’, ‘cos it sounds like Chewbacca when you say his name fast.”
- Passerby, Swansea.

Pharmacist

“She’s training in the pharmacy… to be a farmer.”
“A pharmacist?”
“Yeah, a pharmacist.”
- Mother & daughter in shop queue.

Cake

“Cake? Yes please – and make sure it’s the biggest piece.”
- Overweight mother to daughter in self-serve cafeteria.