Even business travelers turned off by airport delays are driving to out-of-town meetings in relatively roomy RV's, where they don't have to worry that their discussions will be overheard by a competitor across the aisle.
Frobes-Cross, a Columbia grad student who was sitting across the aisle, had overheard the stewardess's decree, too.
I was halfway across the street when I overheard two flashily dressed patrons chatting by an idling limo that blocked the door.
Alas one day, while gazing a nurturing eye across my window boxes, I overheard from the TV box a lovely man by the name of Richard P (which I can only imagine stands for "positivity") Bacon extolling the pain of TROLLS and the damage they were wreaking across the planet.
Many heated debates on the subject have been overheard by marmots, pikas, and cheeseburger birds across the Sierra Nevada.
As they made their way across the crowded main floor, they overheard a young woman say impatiently to her mother: "This is New York.
The tone is instant and unmistakable, with our narrator buttonholing us like a man who, having overheard our conversation in a pub, is leaning across to join in, or to contest our version of events.
I told them what we'd said, and that we didn't mean for it to come across as a sexual comment, and that we were sorry if someone overheard and was offended.
That same month, across the river in Tensas Parish, La., a planter overheard slaves plotting to rise up on the Fourth of July, in conjunction with "Lincons [sic] troops".
"You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line," she said, or one observation of a model walking across the room in Vegas.
