Styroboots: 1, Nosy Germans: 0

[styroboots]

Eavesdropping: the bane of English speakers all over Europe.  While you can generally assume that most people listening in on your conversation don't understand most of what you're saying, that doesn't take away from the fact that they're being rude. I've come up with a means of combatting this nuisance, and it's quite a simple solution. Anytime I

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[rev_e]

Oddly enough, that is also exactly how the DyVinyls ended up coming up with the song I Touch Myself. Just fucking with eavsdroppers in a diner. You may have a #1 hit on your hands.

[technolope]

That is great! Thank you for cracking me up again.

The German phrase is "Have a good night"? I'll admit that I've forgotten most of the German that I'd learned when I was there.

[berberitze]

haha, that's hilarious. Though I must say, I listen in on people's conversations all the time, no matter what language they're speaking. Not so much when I'm traveling in a group, of course, but when you ride a bus alone, how can you not eavesdrop?

[styroboots]

Yeah, I do too. But I'm good about not being obvious. And I don't do it with an entire group of my friends and simulataneously discuss their conversation.

[_earthshine_]

Unsurprisingly, you continue to utterly rock my world.

Of course, beware of backfiring. I have the same advice to a good friend who so hated the wedding tradition of glass-clinking that she and her fiancee considered being completely garishly all over each other the first time so as to utter disgust their guests and discourage anyone doing it again. I explained that, if her plan didn't work, she's simultaneously have to risk getting naked at her own wedding and, far worse, find out exactly how sick some of her pruny old relatives really were...

[anonymous]

lol...I remember that! For a second there I thought you were talking about the German children we saw on the street that same day who were much to young to be talking about blow jobs! How funny... We are very fond of our Heidelberg memories...