Conversations un-plugged!

Over the years,conversations ran the gamut from ""blah, blah, blah to "Dear God, I can't believe what the hell I am hearing!"  Although our ears were privy to many open conversations, I cannot fathom nor process the notion people actually thought they were speaking in a non audible whisper.  At this moment I can only imagine the masses reading this little blog, panicking! "Did they hear me when....?" or "Did I ever tell anyone anything embarrassing or private while I sat in Fred's News?" or maybe it is more along the lines of "OMG she has lost her mind, she can't name names or moments or let the proverbial cat out of the bag or perhaps could or would she and why?"  How about the thought..."If she heard it, who else did?" and best  of all, my personal favorite, "Do you think, Mr. Bill heard it?" Egads not the EGG-NAZI!  So let us clarify a few of the finer points as everyone tries to reboot the twenty odd years of daily conversations at Freds. I shall try to answer in the order in which these thoughts cross one's mind. "Oh yes. yes, yes we heard!  My hair has turned gray because of some of the crap I heard, I cannot blame it all on my children!"  As for the embarrassing or private conversations, "Did we hear them?" Again, a most definite, "Oh yeah!"  Now for those who realize my photographic memory and ability to recall the juicy morsels of garbage that my delicate ears were subjected to for so many years.........."what the hell, your secrets are safe with me although I cannot vouch for the Egg-Nazi; luckily he doesn't use a computer and if he does recall a "private moment conversation", he just laughs and shares it with me and I already KNOW!

Take a deep breath and enjoy as we try to cover some of the more interesting conversations.  As we all know sex gets everyone's attention, so whether it is sex with a boy/girl/ both friend, sex with your spouse or someone else's spouse, too much sex in too little time or not enough sex, perhaps where this sex occurred, who caught you or who you caught or peeped at having sex, who uses sex enhancement drugs or sex toys, we've heard it all...trust me no names, but sex is number one on the list of private overheard conversations. By the way excuses after being caught came pretty close to being the number one topic of secret conversations at Freds; My personal favorite,"when he caught me I told him OMG, I must of been sleep walking!" REALLY!  Then there was the lady whose young daughter found her mother's sex toy and threw it out the window at the contractor working on the building. Of course there is the guy who took one of the little blue pills and damn near had a heart attack, also the one who went to the hospital after a full night of sex with a sore and tired "woody" who refused to go to sleep (in plain english, a boner that wouldn't deflate!).  Perhaps you think I have gone off the deep end, please do not worry.....if the conversations I have heard over the years did not send me there, I guess I must be pretty stable; strange and stable at best. Affairs were also made for great listening. Admittingly, even I was pretty shocked by some.  For those who know me, it takes alot to really shock me.  Mr, Bill and I often joke....we were scarred!

Money another top priority hush hush topic.  Who has has it, who doesn't, who stole it and from whom, who gambled it away and that conversation also had sex in it. While the person was gambling, the spouse was taking a gamble with some one else. No worries, names are with held to protect the innocent and get others wondering. 

In the years at Fred's I often wondered if bartender's experienced all this and more so I decided to do some research into the field of "overheard private conversations" by consulting a few of the bartenders I do know.  Seems they have been given quite the education as well.  A sense of relief came over me, but then a sadness as well....these moments at Fred's were NOT unique, just interesting as hell.