"Harry Potter Puppet Show," she said laughing

You guys. This happened on the tram on my home from work.

Have you ever gone people-watching?  It's fun, right?  Well, sometimes, I like to go people-listening, where I pretend that I'm listening to music with my headphones in, but I listen to people around me instead.  Unorthodox? Maybe.

So last night or the night before I was on the tram and more and more people kept coming on, but not that many people were getting off. This equals sardines.  

I had started my people-listening, so my headphones were in with no music playing.  Nothing interesting so far.  Then a couple of people my age get on, which is always a toss-up between boring school talk and awesomely hilarious talk.  The first two ladies...boring talk. Boooo!

Then the next two squeeze in next to me (like uncomfortably close) and start talking.  Somehow I catch the phrase "secret Santa" (not its equivalent in French...the actual words "secret Santa") Excellent.

As a side note, I've seen this and laughed so many times that I automatically equate the rest of the rhyme as "dead," to the point that I no longer remember the real thing

The guy looks confused.  She thinks it's the word 'Santa' that's got him stuck, but no, it's the whole thing.  She explains and he gets the picture pretty quickly. They talk about gifts and one of them mentions a box-set of Harry Potter movies.  My ears perk up...

This girl knows her Potter shiz. She's quoting and laughing and he's clueless...he knows the films and books, but he's not a true fan.  She then, and I can't emphasize how unusual and not-French this is, starts singing (out loud) this:

At this point I'm doing everything in my power to neither laugh out loud nor to join her in "singing" slash "quoting".  My face is probably giving everything away.  

The boy at this point is looking uncomfortable and like he wants to Apparate (wink) off that tram.  He has absolutely no idea what's happening.  So she picks up on his lack of understanding and explains that it's from "a thing on YouTube called 'Harry Potter Puppet Show'." (like "secret Santa," this, too, was in Frenchified English). This title alone almost sent me over the edge, for whatever reason.  
 
Moral of the story: sometimes being crammed in the tram has its benefits, if you're willing to creepily stalk others by listening to their conversations "unnoticed" (I quote because I'm sure the girl had to know)