Conversations that are overheard are the not original at least that is how it feels to me; I mean if you think about it you are eavesdropping on another conversation or willing invading their personal space but without the person or people knowing. Honestly I don’t understand if someone were to get mad at you for mentioning something that occurred during their conversation or was overheard by someone on the receiving end because, although they are not the intended one that the feelings or thoughts were meant to be transferred to, sometimes the people are just so loud that it can’t be helped if you hear what they are saying… I’m not confident to say whether this action is done deliberately but it gives the unknown listener a little laugh while they are listening or standing by in a line, just passing through and other things of that nature. I find overheard snippets like this way funnier than conversations that I have with other people, possibly it due to the consideration that I don’t know what the person or group of people are going to say next. It promotes not a sense of suspense but more of an anticipation of what is going to come out the unknown’s mouth if you are not facing them and the stranger you may or may not know. It can be a tidbit of information that exists a chance of you not being aware of knowing but that makes it more appealing and piques your interest more, “what are they talking about?” is what goes through their mind or if you actually do know the subject of their discussion you happen to react to in a reasonable manner but look around to make sure nobody is looking at you weird especially if you are sitting by yourself. Maybe other people feel a way different than mine and are hypothetically indifferent to scenarios such as these since it’s just none of their business or they are the type of person that after hearing what was said by the group will actually chime in and become a part of the conversation and finally there are those that avoid these people altogether and find a place to be by themselves and think or find their own friends to talk to. I think being an unknown listener is akin to being the audience to reading a story as you don’t know what will understand the information that precedes in the story unless you’ve at least read some of it. When you are listening to these random people’s stories certain parts are omitted from you the new listener and if you’ve missed the beginning or any other important detail it can completely change how you view the story versus the person who was actively listening the entire time. It’s the same thing when the technology used to not be able to let you record shows while or before watching them and since they could be paused you’d come back to the show and not exactly understand everything and have to piece some things together based off of context clues and information. This is not really a skill or anything just a habit I have that I do sometimes to pass the time by or when I’m doing something not particularly relevant at the moment. It sounds a little stalker like to say that one listens to others when they aren’t even talking to each other but it may just be the nature of curiosity peaking its way out to say hello and express it as a new device or should I say sense. Listening is a good feature to a person but can even that be taken too far and turned against them? I believe listening can be attributed to other sense and feelings and utilized in the same manner. There are people probably going to read and view this rambling article so is reading content a person make also invading in their little bubble or even the author, writer, content maker’s mind? Therefore it is an action many do without even thinking about it thinking to themselves subconsciously “this was put here for a reason so why don’t I read, listen, remark, exhibit, share, etc. this information for myself because really there is no ownership if I am not endangering what is already there right?”