I used to work in a real estate agency doing doing work on their website and salesforce system along with some other random software related projects. It was a small office with a few office rooms, a conference room and a main floor with some cubicles and a reception desk. My area was in the cubicles on the main floor and the other three cubicle sections were taken up by women real estate agents.
The majority of the time the women real estate agents were out at meetings or showings. But they'd meet back at the office in the afternoons sometimes. And when they did, they talk amongst themselves and socialize for an hour or two before they went home. These were attractive, older women (mid-40s or maybe late-40s), hair always perfect and often wearing women's suits with dress pants.
I would have headphones on the majority of the time I was working. Only myself and the accountant / operations manager were regulars in the office, so it'd get lonely for me. But when the women came back I would sometimes talk with them a little bit. Although I was careful about not doing that too much as I didn't want to be seen slacking off.
Sometimes the women would discuss female things. They would peak their heads over the cube to see if I had my headphones on and if I did, they would seem to feel comfortable talking about whatever. And I could usually figure out what they were talking about, but I'd just let them have their false privacy and listen to my podcast or music.
Then one time I could tell they were talking what underwear they usually wear. I had my headphones on, but I turned the volume all the way down on them. They checked to see if I had my headphones on so I stared at my monitors and pretended to be locked in on whatever I was doing.
And I heard them discuss their underwear for 30-40 minutes. They weren't whispering, but talking more quietly than their normal indoor voices. And here is the highlights of what I remember hearing:
- Neither of them liked wearing thongs; both said they weren't comfortable enough and they were too old for them
- One of them said her husband didn't like her wearing cotton ones, so she never wears cotton underwear
- One of them said she didn't like wearing lace underwear to work because the material stick to her dress pants
- They both talked about how certain materials will get bunched up into their butts
- One of them talked about her how husband goes crazy for visible panty lines so she wears underwear with thick seams
- The same one mentioned how she has to be careful because too tight of pants combined with visible panty lines can sometimes look too revealing or too much
That's what I can remember hearing off the top of my head. And after a while they checked in on me again and I must have looked like I was trying too hard to focus on my computer screens, because they straight up asked me if I was listening to them. And I tried my best to lie and say, "what?! No, I'm not listening." And I couldn't hold my smile back while I was lying and we all started kind of laughing about it. It was good-natured and part of me thinks that they wanted me to hear their conversation anyways.