Have you ever had someone teach you something you never expected?

My job entails me to speak with agricultural equipment dealers/truck drivers on the phone, to put their information into the computer system so they can be on the Will Call list to pick up their combines on the following morning. I usually speak to about 20 people a night, and while many of them are from the Midwest, some of them are from out of the way places like much of Canada. I try to make our conversations enjoyable by having fun with them and kidding around and stuff. Just to make their day a little better, since most have been driving for many hours.

Last week a Canadian driver taught me how to say a very foul curse in Arabic. We were talking about languages and he offered it up. It is very foul and nasty and involves someone’s mother in Hell performing oral sex. I’ll probably never use it, but it is an interesting thing to know. My question is: Have you ever learned something outrageous and unexpected from someone just in idle conversation?