...by Al Kratina, The Gazette
Canada - I worry about Montreal's eavesdroppers. Every week, they provide this very page with the overheard morsels in the box at right, many of which sound like contributors have been hiding under the desk of Gossip Girl script meetings.
But there's an art to eavesdropping, a delicate balance between subtle espionage and outright home invasion. And I'm concerned some of our eavesdroppers might inadvertently blur the lines and end up either imprisoned or nursing a nasty staph infection caused by rifling through a target's refuse.
So, I spent an afternoon testing out a few techniques, and came up with these four helpful pointers...
1. Wear headphones
2. Pick a high-traffic location
3. Don't listen to high school kids
4. Don't dress like a sex offender from a 1930s movie
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