It\u2019s a situation many will know well. You\u2019re at your local pub with your pals and you\u2019re a few pints in \u2013 your tongue is getting looser, and the conversation sillier. The cocoon of alcohol, chairs pulled in close proximity and low lighting can make it feel like you\u2019re in your own little world. But, as it turns out, your chats might not be as private as you think\u2026<\/p>\n
Edie Medley is an illustrator who, alongside freelance illustration projects, works part time as a manager at a pub, and she\u2019s been drawing up the conversations she hears while on the job. \u201cBeing behind the bar is the perfect place to quietly observe, there are so many different interactions happening around you; friends who haven\u2019t seen each other in a while, groups who meet at the same time every day, first dates, etc,\u201d she says. \u201cHonestly, when you\u2019re pulling pints or collecting glasses and people are sitting there chatting, it\u2019s difficult not to tune in.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was one particular conversation that first sparked the idea for I\u2019m Not Listening. When in a pub garden, Edie overheard an argument which culminated in someone throwing their drink over a man, to which he indignantly (and hilariously) replied \u201cwell this is Gore-Tex, so the joke\u2019s on you sweetheart. It\u2019s waterproof!\u201d. From that point onward, Edie kept her ear out for one-liners, swiftly noting them down in her trusty phone notes app, titled \u2018overheard compiled\u2019. \u201cI had to organise it recently because they were all over the place, mixed up with my to-do lists and recipes,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a situation many will know well. You\u2019re at your local pub with your pals and you\u2019re a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-126472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}