# I overheard the wrong part of that conversation

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 11, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-overheard-the-wrong-part-of-that-conversation/581508 "2011-05-11T12:54:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-overheard-the-wrong-part-of-that-conversation/581508/21 "2011-05-12T15:18:26Z")

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> [@Cryptic\_C62](#):
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> The snippet of the quote suggests that the woman absolutely hated her classes / her dormitory / her lack of friends / whatever, but loved spending time with her horse. If she hadn’t had her horse with her, she imagines that she would have dropped out of school from the misery.
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> Nothing mysterious about this, Mr. Black.

Maybe. It seems like she would have said that without the horse she never would have _made it through_ the year, rather than \*spent \*the year.

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-overheard-the-wrong-part-of-that-conversation/581508/22 "2011-05-12T17:04:51Z")

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A few years ago I walked through the office I worked at just in time to hear “If she doesn’t get up by Saturday you’re gonna have to shoot her.”

Now I knew that she and her husband had a cow that had given birth a day or two before and was unable to stand up. They did, in fact end up having to put the cow down. But I told her afterward she was lucky a random patient didn’t overhear that snippet of conversation.

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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-overheard-the-wrong-part-of-that-conversation/581508/23 "2011-05-12T17:24:18Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> I’d like to have a list of bizarro things to say just as someone is entering an elevator… is that evil of me?

I use some of the following:

“… and that’s why he’s no longer allowed at The Smithsonian.”

“… and so it ended up in my mouth.”

“… seriously. Her mother, too.”

“… no, no. It’s just how he was holding the chicken.”

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