'Would you like me to wash your blankie?': 25+ Gamers who left their mics on for their entire group to overhear

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Nov 22, 2023 11:00 AM EST

These gamers had a listen in to their friends' personal lives, and they've stopped laughing for long enough to tell the stories. 

You don't need me to tell you that playing video games is a proper American pastime. If you aren't a gamer yourself, chances are you know a kid who's playing Roblox right now, or maybe you have a sibling who's glued to their chair playing Call of Duty. For a lot of people, playing video games is a great way to relax, catch up with friends, and let off some steam after a long day of work or watching the kids. You can play with your friends or meet new people---probably both. Many players choose to wear headsets so they can talk to their team while they prepare for battle, and that's where a lot of these overheard stories took place. 

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  • U/AxelMontiello asked Redditors to share stories of the funniest things they've overheard while gaming, and people had some amazing tales to share. In some tales, they overheard kids who were trying to act tough suddenly have to deal with their moms who wanted them to stop playing the game. Others overheard their teammates' kids or spouses in the background. Check out all these great stories below. Up next, a CEO let his son take over a branch of the company, and the son immediately began to mess things up, starting by making two employees drive 1200+ miles to change a single light bulb. 

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    via Humphrey Muleba on Unsplash
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    What is the funniest thing you overheard from another players mic while playing a game online?
    via u/AxelMontiello
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    I was trash talking this team on black ops 2 back in the day. I said "you live in your moms basement" and my mom walked into my room at that very moment and said "you will too if you don't get those grades up" I was 14 :(
    via r/AskReddit
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    ✪ [deleted] I heard an adult get mad at his mom for putting the wrong cheese on his sandwich.
    via u/[deleted]
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    markiesmalls I was playing Rocket League and some guy told me he was going to take a bath with my dad. I've never laughed so hard.
    via u/markiesmalls
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    [deleted] One time after beating a kid at a match on counter-strike, he kept yelling "1V1 ME NOOB" and hurling other insults at me. The kid was definitely only 11-12 years old. Anyways I added him so we could 1v1 and while sitting in the pre game lobby I heard his mother come in and start yelling at him to go to bed. He refused to turn off the pc, then I heard his mother walk towards the pc and turn it off. He was immediately disconnected. I was laughing so hard the whole time.
    via u/[deleted]
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    pixelvengeur "Charlie, don't you dare chew the cable, don't you dare, stop, stop, stop, spit the cable out Charlzchzapcrzzztchprtspcj" I think what I presume to be the cat didn't let go of the cable
    via u/pixelvengeur
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    intelligentmemer This guys girlfriend asked him if she should order him pizza. He said: "do i italian to you?" look
    via u/intelligentmemer
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    GetBuckets13182 I was playing I think CoD or something and I hear this kid go "Mom did you see that? I sniped him!" And the mom goes, "That's great, did you put lotion on your ashy elbows?"
    via u/GetBuckets13182
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    OhioFace Beard I was once playing NHL with a couple friends. Our randomly filled teammate was probably about a 14 or 15 year old kid. We then hear an older woman's voice (presumably his mother) in the thickest Boston accent I've ever heard, "Wash ya hands Teddy, 2 pumps of soap, don't break the ......... container!"
    via u/OhioFace Beard
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    DyingCatastrophy I was playing a quick play game of overwatch, and there was some kid getting yelled at by his mom that dinner was ready. It was a shouting match of her telling him to get off the game, and him telling her he'd only be a minute. Then he full on screamed at her, and disconnected. This was followed by one guy on mic (who had been silent the entire game) bursting out laughing.
    via u/DyingCatastrophy
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    427BananaFish I was playing COD and a player was helping his son with his homework. He was having a hard time explaining why multiplying by zero = zero so I plugged in my mic and told the guy how to explain it simply. It was like Cyrano de Bergerac: I'd say a sentence to the guy in his headset and he'd parrot it to the kid. I also love when I hear people talk to what I assume are their pets on mic.
    via u/427BananaFish
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    greenstonebeauty. I was the one saying it over a live mic. Husband and I were cooking meal prep lunches when I had to leave for my raid. I was talking something through before a fight when my husband came into the office with a fork full of food for me to try.
    via u/greenstonebeauty
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    I moved my head away a few times and he kept getting closer and closer with the fork until I finally said "I don't want it in my mouth right now." Guild waited a half second before losing it. We had to take a 10 minute break.
    via u/greenstonebeauty
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    Shanisasha Main tank and main healers daughter "I ATE A PENNY!!"
    via u/Shanisasha
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    zool714 Overheard a mom shout from a teammates audio Mom: "We're going out to get breakfast!" Kid:"No, I'm in the middle of a game" Mom:"We're going to McDonald's !" AwesomeKid69 left the game
    via u/zool714
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    HattingSpelt Lompe So not overheard, but I remember an incident about myself. When I was 12 I got to raid ZG (in World of Warcraft) for the first time with my guild. It was also the first time i used ventrilo/TS and didn't know about the "push to talk" mechanic so my mic was on the whole time.
    via u/HattingSpelt Lompe
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    My mom asked me from downstairs what I wanted on my sandwich so I yelled back really loud: "LIVERPASTE WITH MAYONNAISE AND CUCUMBER!" (in norwegian), and oh my god I scared the out of my guildies. Some other norwegian guy in the guild could not stop laughing for the whole raid.
    via u/HattingSpelt Lompe
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    TurquiseBird Not mine, but my friend's story. She was playing PUBG with a bunch of random people and one of the dude's mom goes "ARE YOU TALKING TO A GIRL?" in the most dramatic voice and then he disappeared. The other dude went like "Oh man, let's pray for his soul".
    via u/TurquiseBird
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    that_alex_guy Doing a raid with a few randoms I hear a dude talking to his kid say "yes daddy is playing game with friends".. Then all I heard was ps4 beep and him saying "oh not a... " cut off and leaving the game and party chat. Legit was so funny, when he eventually joined back up he explained his little kid loves turning off his ps4.
    via u/that_alex_guy
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    crackly_boi On a tf2 server close to when fallout 4 was gonna be released some guy had a table top record player and some original records that had some of the songs from fallout on them and while he was playing atom bomb baby for the millionth time he knocked the record player off his desk and everyone in the server heard it basically explode on the poor man's floor he sounded like he was gonna cry afterwards
    via u/crackly_boi
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    [deleted] "Harry NO! I KNOW YOU WANT TO BUT IT'S NOT CHEESE"
    via u/[deleted]
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    SotheBee In my WoW guild, we have a married couple in our raid group. They are parents and a lot of the other people in our guild are olderish guys, single guys, or younger ones. One night we are raiding and midpull we hear the mom yell into her mic accidentally "HEY IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR BED YOU BETTER HAVE TAKEN A SHOWER AND PUT YOUR GAMES AWAY!" in the most mom voice you've ever heard
    via u/SotheBee
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    A lot of people in our raid were ready to log off and go shower out of fear.
    via u/SotheBee
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    + [deleted] Was dealing with a real Tuff McBadboy on csgo matchmaking. griefing, etc.... Just your typical gold nova pubby. But all of a sudden we hear a baby crying in the background of his mic. Someone tells him to go take care of his " i child" and the whole match becomes just us answering him with unsolicited fatherhood tips.
    via u/[deleted]
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    DrRakdos My friend was freaking out on the mic. I thought he was getting mad at someone in the game but it didn't make a whole lotta sense. He would be like 11 OFF no, no, no, don't do that! Aaaaah! You J cheeky I! You l absolute Don't! Don't! Don't! it!"
    via u/DrRakdos
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    And I ask him what the was going on and he said "My cat drank my milk"
    via u/DrRakdos
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    Waffles Fried One time when I was playing Overwatch late at night a guy asked the team "Hey do you guys like cheesecake?" to which a couple of people replied "yeah" and "yes", then someone asked "what type of flavour do you like?" to which the original guy replied "cheese flavoured you IDIOT!" Competitive Overwatch might shatter my spirit and deteriorate my sanity but it's little weird moments like that which make it all worth it.
    via u/Waffles Fried
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    hardboiled boi Back when Modern Warfare 2 came out, I was playing multiplayer like mad, but every once in a while a hacker would come on and do some wacky in our matches. One night, this one guy comes in named "PotterHere" and in the english accent said "I'm Harry Pottah! You shall all be granted the max-e- mum prestige! BIBBIDY BOBBIDY" Everyone got
    via u/hardboiled boi
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    disconnected, I shut off my PS3 and turned it back on. Lo and behold I had everything unlocked and was still at like level 50. Still have all that unlocked and still play every once in a while! Thanks Harry!
    via u/hardboiled boi
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    [deleted] My buddy was really good at Halo (cant remember which one), but it had proximity chat. He put on "Cotton Eye Joe" in the background. Everytime I could hear the song I knew my death was soon to follow.
    via u/[deleted]
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    crazypants003 I was playing fortnite with a squad of fandoms. Playing with a kid who's been talking the entire game, no one is responding. A mom (I'm assuming) starts yelling at this kid in our squad on Fortnite. Mind you he's probably 10-12 years old. I hear in a stern voice "Jason turn off your Xbox right now". He wines, "we are almost done, can I finish this game??". She says' "if you don't turn it off now, no Xbox for a week" (door slams). Jason goes, "FUDGE IT". He stays on and we come in 7
    via u/crazypants003
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    X_R_x We were playing World at War one time on Free for All. Dude was talking a lot of smack because he was whipping our His girl comes in from work and realizes he's been gaming all day and yells at him and basically emasculates him. Says she is tired of being the only one working, coming home and cleaning up after him.
    via u/X_R_x
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    It was so bad the whole lobby stopped shooting to listen to it. After it was done, he left the room and it was quiet and a dude out of no where says: should of folded some towels or something." The whole lobby lost it.
    via u/X_R_x
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    Mythiq I didn't over hear it, but the people I was playing with did. I was in a squad in Rainbow 6 Siege with four other guys I had just met. There was a bug where your mic was always activated regardless of the setting. Anyway I had watched a live streamer recently that day and I thought that way he was talking to and babying his cat was funny. So, me and my
    via u/Mythiq
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    roommate are going back and forth saying "Babba booey" in a high pitched voice until one of my squad mates rudely interrupted with "WE CAN HEAR YOU". I wanted to just permamute my mic that day lol.
    via u/Mythiq
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    akasella My favorite thing on discord that happened is still; loud music plays through someone's open mic "Oh is that zelda?!?" "ITS SKYRIM YOU UNCULTURED "I
    via u/akasella
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    Mw WarlockAgent I was playing CoD Black Ops or MW2 with my roommates. This kid's mom (in a southern accent) yells at him: "Get off the ON-line, I need to use the phone!" We were in tears. We still quote her from time to time all these years later.
    via u/Mw WarlockAgent
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    Maddokz Some dude was watching the final of season 3 GoT in the background, and was only just starting season 2, so... I had the whole Red Wedding spoiled for me while playing BF3.
    via u/Maddokz
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    vanayir Not exactly funny but adorable as . One day I was playing Call of Duty zombies and had public matched to a group of ransoms. In the middle of the match, a small squeak came out of one guy's microphone. I figured it was just a broken mic, or just a one, and ignored it. Then it happened again, louder this time. And again. Each time it grew louder. I finally asked what it was, if he needed a better mic?
    via u/vanayir
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    His kitten, named Skittles, was climbing up his body squealing and messing around with his microphone. I had to stop paying attention to ask 30 questions about the small rainbow kitten from across the country
    via u/vanayir
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    kcrh36 A group of dudes from work playing Battlefield 2, when one guys wife starts to vacuum. He yells at her to stop, and she does, she then proceeds to watch Golden Girls at high volume. He gets up and they start having a fight, which we can't hear all of, but at one point, he yells
    via u/kcrh36
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    "Because I'm an idiot!" and then they stop fighting and the whole squad hears "Thank you for being a friend..." and all of us start singing the Golden Girls theme song, in right in time with his tv. So when he gets back on the mic he can hear 8 grown men singing.
    via u/kcrh36
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    spobodys_necial "Be right back guys, using the bathroom" (from someone else in the chat) "... HEY ALEXA, SET AN ALARM FOR 2AM" "Okay, setting an alarm for 2 am!"
    via u/spobodys_necial
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    BAM Kemphis Not really overheard but funny nonetheless. Playing Destiny King's Fall raid in the final encounter and after beating our head against a wall for like 2 weeks we finally finish it and get our loot. Immediately one of our friends says "GGs boys I'm in big trouble so I gotta go.". Then he disconnected. Turns out he had been ignoring his GFs phone calls for about 20-30 minutes and she had been standing outside in the rain locked out of his apartment building.
    via u/Kemphis
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    top Mithranel This actually happened to me while on TeamSpeak or something, playing Wow. My grandma came in the room and I told her to keep quiet. And while I don't remember the exact words, she leans in close to me (I'm with a headset mic) and says quite loudly "Would you like me to wash your blanky". I was maybe 16 or older at the time. The guys in the channel had a good laugh.
    via u/Mithranel

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