Awkward Overheard Conversations
“So, I turned in a paper about Slavery from women’s perspective, and”
I did not quite catch the next line or so, as I was not evesdropping per se, paying no rapt attention or mind. But I thought I caught “and in the margins, he wrote ‘[blah bleh blah].”
“[Loud Gasp]. He wants you SO BADLY.”
If I were drinking anything at that moment I would have done the classic spit take. That was not a response I was expecting to hear to the rather quiet discussion of a college student’s essay response. I turned my head over, wondering about the protocol for inappropriate sexual advances from college professors or student aides, and saw — to my relief, that there were two conversations going on between two different pairs of undergraduate late teen early twenty something year old women, and the horrifying possibility of a suggestive s and m comment to a paper regarding to a “woman’s perspective on slavery” could respectfully be shoveled out of my head.
When I passed by a few minutes on my way out, the two who were discussing sex were doing so in hushed tones, evidentally aware loudly gasping “He wants you SO BADLY” cannot help but draw attention.