Overheard Cafe Conversations

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Ah, the art of the overheard cafe conversations. I’ve heard some interesting conversations at cafes! There was a conversation involving an adulterous situation; there was a situation where disgruntled thoughts about farmers’ markets were expressed. My thought is – why does it matter what people talk about when they talk in cafes?

Part of our conversations in cafes is superficial. We want people to like us. I’ll give you that. But part of our cafe conversations is insidious. They convey messages we may be unwilling to make ourselves.

Some of the overheard cafe conversations I’ve written snippets down of have been overly absurd. Things about how someone thinks that they are the second coming of Jesus or about how someone’s girlfriend’s brother’s friend dances in the middle of the street every night at 3 am.

Other things you might overhear in the coffee shop include things about people’s friends that they wouldn’t say to their face, talk about that wild one-night-stand, or a couple of writers talking about their most recent projects.

You might hear someone talk about a new event, or something interesting that happened locally. My question to you is, what sorts of things have you overheard while at a café?