Venting Evesdropping

[Concorde]

I grew up in a household where I was taught, with moderate success, to never listen to a conversation you're not part of. Tune it out.

I did an amazing job of not eavesdropping my partner's phone calls today. I heard only two parts and ffs. This was with one of his closest out-of-town friends:

Concorde? Yeah, he's doing really well. He works today. Yesterday, too [I'm on this fucking forum because my shitty job used to give me 4 days of work, but now only two]. Really good. It's really cold. But [it's good that he's getting out of the house because how else do you restore your will to live or get a new job?] (it's nice to have him out of the house were his words but I think I know him well enough to extrapolate here (but I'm including his actual words because I hate when people think they can translate what someone means but do it inaccurately)).

I'm sorry but I beg your most very pardon. I can understand this kinda phony bologna with work colleagues or publicly facing, but this is someone he met when they were in elementary school whose big life events we've often shared.

It is a lot to expect that I'm accurately being portrayed. But it was so intensely disorienting and infuriating to hear about some happy life I'm supposedly living. F that.

The other thing I heard was a group video call for a self help org he's part of. He was aggressively volunteering to read their meeting preamble and I could tell based on its content and based on our history that he was reading it at me. Tame Impala to the rescue I was not about to be hit with some plausibly denied proselytizing. Fuck that.