While stationed in Panama.....we had pretty crappy phonelines, and on rare occasions....you'd pick up your office phone to call out, and there would be two parties somehow connected to your open phone.
So one day....I picked up my phone, and here were two American ladies....who were into an afternoon gossip session.
I sat there for a good ten minutes while this discussion went on about some gal that both knew.....who was having some affair with two guys besides her husband. It was pretty 'juicy' gossip, and very descriptive.
At some point....I was thinking....do I just hang up....or what?
Somewhere around minute eleven of this experience....I interrupted the talk of the two ladies, and that noted to both that they were under investigation for something (never saying what).
There was silence for about 10 seconds....then both of them uttering some one-word comment, then they hung up.
I hung up, and sat there for a while...wondering what the two would do. They both probably met over coffee somewhere the next day, and discussed what they might be investigated for. Use of the phone from that point on? Probably zero.
But I also think they probably discussed the neighbor gal a good bit, and probably thought she was already under investigation as well.
