Overheard

Overheard
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Conversations from the buses, boardrooms and bars of BritainThink you've heard it all before? Think again with this hilarious collection of conversations from around Britain, overheard at tourist hotspots, in queues, at work and on public transport.Packed full of verbal wit and gags it is guaranteed to get people talking and remember the stupid things that they have overheard.MicrocosmA tired looking mother stands hands on hips in the play park watching her two young children tumble in the dirt.MOTHER:(shouting)Jordan! Syria! Play nice!Casanova on the 137A young Casanova is chattin' on his mobile, while sitting on a bus.CASANOVA:I am so glad you called sweet. Yeaaaahh. Girl I ain't sitting on no bus. I'm here, driving, yeah? Yeah, well you soon see it girl. You gonna come out with me tonight? Cooool. I'm sooo glad you called yeah? I was thinking 'bout you…let's meet up…where? Okay I'll take you there…Yeah I'll take you there girl. I won't bring my wheels if we'ze going there. Thas alright. Thas alright…I'll be there. What's your name girl..? I know what your name is girl, I want you to spell it. Donna, Dana! D-a-n-a yeah? I knew that. I am sooo glad you called yeah? I was thinking 'bout you.A hilarious record of what people really do say. Watch out-you never know who might be listening!

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Mark Love. Overheard

Overheard. conversations from the buses, boardrooms and bars of Britain. Mark Love & Jacqui Saunders

Table of Contents

Introduction

Toy Story

Zip It

The Heroic Potato

The Speculators

The Grieving Process

The Fablus Flautist

The Ear Complaint

Yorkshire Watter

You can’t cheat yer Nan

Year Zero

The Dry-Cleaner

The Crunch

Would You?

The Communication Age

The School Trip

The Comedic Properties of Fruit

Winsor

The Chocolate Teapot

Why?

Reclassifying the Kids

The Art of Luvvy

Wolves

Telegraph Road

Stranger in Town

‘Spolicy

The Man Who Has Everything

Snappy Shopper

The Washing-line of Hope

Scusting

Memorable Elephants

The Endless Queue

Two Birds Having It Off

Multicultural, innit?

The Hot Date

S&M in the High Street

Romance

Rice

Taking Stock

Public Inconvenience

Controversy

Potty

Parenthood

Over-inflated

Not the Done Thing

Nah, Mate!

Mothers

The Celebrity and the Portaloo

Tourist Information

Jimmy Scumbag’s Report

Man’s Best Friend

Tea? Coffee?

Innocence

Maltesers

History Repeating Itself

Mad as a Bee

Goths

Arsebergers

It’s the Thought That Counts

Learning by Example

Fast Food

It Takes Me Back

Esmerelda

Good Genes ain’t Everything

A Building Term

Giving Direction

Battery-powered

Generation XXX

Balham?

Gazebo

Dullest Cat Food Story in the World

Front or Back Bottom?

Death of a Hamster

Finding Sense

Don’t Go There

Focking Americans!

Bounced

Conditioning

Cheese People

As if!

Chalk

Casanova on the 137

Biting Jelly

Dimensions

Cannon Balls-up

A Good Investment

No Great Shakes

Greek

Pity

Care in the Community

Where You Hide Yourself

Offender Profile

Unexpected Delivery

The Birthday Buddy

Undersize Me

Caffé Americano

Man’s Other Best Friends

Objects of Desire

Business

Scaring the Extras

A Mother’s Lament

A Really Swish Showhome

Glee Club

Brazil Nuts

Trouble with Snails

Tough Love

The Tourists

Boys Will Be…

The Naturalist’s Needs

A Higher Power

Boing!

Too Much Information

There!

Salt of the Earth to Planet Boyfriend

The Important Stuff

A Traveller’s Tale

Come Together

Catch 23

Andy’s Do

Another Woman

Memories

Americans in London

Meat

Bliss

Microcosm

Enough Underwear

Bad Medicine

Bacteria

Into the Wild

Guántanamo

The Stuff of Dreams

Guests

Cool

A Simple Truth

A Cracking Bit of Cheese

Haggling

The Inheritance

A Generous Helping

The Suspect

The Actor Who Couldn’t

Teutonic Plates

A Song for Pyewacket

Tara’s Terror

Snippets from a Six-Year-Old

School’s Out

Sculptures

Burning Bright

Not Being Minnie Driver

Expressing Creativity

The Alison Technique

The Grass Being Greener

Mixed Messages

Milk with Three

Bladdy Tourists!

Jeffrey & the Tramp

Jessica’s News

Royal Insecurity

The Lost Aisle

Stripping Off

So, Do You Know Liam?

Ageing Michelle

Fashionable

Culture

RSVP

Santi

Taking Direction from Stanley Kubrick

The Bottom Line

The Muralist’s Tales

The Phantom Pregnancy

Two Very Different Travellers

Mental Lentils

In a Hole

Fruit

Expectations

Everybody Loves Madeira

Ten Seconds of Fame

Rabbit

The Rastafarian Good Food Guide

Charity

Get a Job

Headucation

I Wanna be Adopted

Management Material

All Change

Blackies

A Missed Opportunity

The Gen on Jenna

The Pottery Shop part 1

The Pottery Shop part 2

Social Skills

The Art Lover

Coitus Infinitum

Fair Trade

Animal Trouble

Acknowledgements

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Cover Page

Title Page

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Objects of Desire

Business

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