Eavesdropping

[sam]

One of the reasons I haved opened backed headphones instead of some noice-cancelling gadget is that people at work completely ignore you if you are wearing them. This has allowed me to discretely overhear great tidbits like this:

"I want to get all the eggs in a row so when I call M*** I can talk to him intelligent about all this crap."

Is this just me or does anyone else want to share?

[aquaphase]

I love doing that! I have headphones on almost 100% of my day, but noone ever knows if I'm actually listening to anything (Thank K for bluetooth headphones). I hear stuff all the time.

[mere1975]

I wish I had been wearing noise-canceling headphones the day my cubicle neighbors spent 20 minutes discussing their canker sores.

- Mere "the same way my neighbors wished they were wearing them today when my friends and I discussed the mass on my face -- zit, spider bite or spider nest?" 1975

[Irock]

I posted something abotu my noisey new neighbor on the Spree board a couple of months ago...
My friend got me noise canceling headphones for Christmas.

I never overhear anything good, though. Just annoying.

People do walk into my cube all the time and see my headphones and say, "are you on a call?"

Uh, is there a mic on the headset? Then no, I'm probably not.

[squeezle]

today i heard one of our contractors say that he had been "delivered from alcohol" & it just made me want to have alcohol delivered to me!