# The Most Unexpected Thing You Heard Today.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 14, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-unexpected-thing-you-heard-today/678743 "2014-01-14T02:15:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-unexpected-thing-you-heard-today/678743/21 "2014-01-15T21:22:28Z")

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“What a bitch!” From my boss\* after a phone call.

\*who rarely curses about or gets angry at _anybody_, much less customers

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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-unexpected-thing-you-heard-today/678743/22 "2014-01-15T22:11:05Z")

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“Smell me!”  
“Go on smell me, I just took a shower not two hours ago.”  
“OK, then smell my hair.”

Heard in the hotel’s lobby this mourning.

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**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-unexpected-thing-you-heard-today/678743/23 "2014-01-15T23:05:37Z")

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> [@a35362](#):
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> So what happened? 🙂

I have an interview on Monday. :D:D:D

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**Author:** ![Fossil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@Fossil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fossil)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-unexpected-thing-you-heard-today/678743/24 "2014-01-16T05:18:49Z")

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I finished a short course toady, certificate of education - Integration Aide. We were finishing off the class talking about being a good team member and the importance of open communication and all the feel good stuff. We were a very cohesive group and spent some time wishing each other luck and exchanging contact details, the usual …

One of the women, who I spoke to yesterday (and said that I found inspiration from her story of being a respite carer and asked her some questions about getting involved myself) approached me and said

“If you want to work with children with autism, you need to not talk so much, you’d confuse them”

I know I was enthusiastic in the classroom and had a lot to say about things and wasn’t afraid to ask questions, but 25% of the class approached me at different times to tell me that I am very intelligent, insightful and that my input was good.

If only I could stop stewing over the 1 negative comment I received …

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