Overheard Snippets And Subsequent Thoughts:

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(one woman to another as we passed each other entering Tesco's)

"...I know I am coming down with something because I'm shivering at night..."

- I'd have thought that if you were 'coming down' with something you'd have been shivering all the time, to be honest.

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(a man to a baby in a high chair, in Tesco's Cafe)

"...and the little red fish goes 'bubble, bubble, bubble'..."

- And the great big shark goes 'GULP!'.

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(a woman to a man, also Tesco's Cafe)

"Four, four, four, four!"

- Er...five!

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(between two women, somewhere nearby outside the toilet cubicle I was sitting in)

WOMAN 1: but you must be wearing new leggings!
WOMAN 2: (bemused) nope.
WOMAN 1: but...
WOMAN 2: really, I'm not.
WOMAN 1: but you must be! All your old leggings have holes in; these are perfect.
WOMAN 2: oh really? Take a look...
(... long pause ...)
WOMAN 1: (shocked) oh my!
WOMAN 2: (amused) see?
WOMAN 1: (awed/disapproving) you are a very bad girl...

- One of two possibilities of what was viewed there, one presumes.

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(a child - around 10 - stood beside me at Tesco's Self Scan Checkouts, to someone apparently far, far away)

"...WHAT?!..."

- I have no idea 'what', kid, but shout like that in my ear again and I swear by all that is holy; I will punt you across the store.

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 (between two young men - presumably students - outside Kidderminster College)

STUDENT 1: Hitler was insane. And evil. And a dictator.

STUDENT 2: so, exactly like every high ranking politician that's ever existed?

STUDENT 1: (wearily) if you discount the mass slaughter of Jews and disabled people, then yeah; 'exactly'.

- As WOMAN 1 in Tesco's toilets said: "oh my!"

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(man to woman as they walked past me)

MAN: ..but honestly, that's how I would want to go.

WOMAN: (stunned) really? You would??

- I really, really want to know what the start of that conversation sounded like. Really, really.

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