Overheard in D.C.: Puppy Clothes!
Some people love kids. Some people feel differently. Kids provide unconditional love, but they can also make any flight or train ride interminable. They have great imaginations and can be funny and sweet, but they can also ask the same question 80 times, just because they want to. But whether you're a kid person or not, it's hard to argue with their ability to say complete nonsense. Maybe the non sequiturs match up with whatever they've been daydreaming about. Who knows? But they're sure to make a commute more interesting.
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Last friday on the DC Circulator Bus, around Washington Circle/Pennsylvania Avenue:
A 3 or 4 year old girl is sitting with her father, commenting on what she sees out of the window. All of a sudden, apropos of nothing, she suddenly announces in a loud voice: "I just want to go CRAZY today, and buy new puppy clothes!"
After the jump, Southern towns with funny names, welding, and some assembly required.
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Photo by sailor/girl.
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Beggars can be choosers
Corner of M Street and Thomas Jefferson Street in Georgetown:
Homeless man on corner: "Spare some change for one of God's children? Pretty lady, some money for God's children?"
Middle Eastern guy walks up and starts to give him some change.
Homeless man: "Are you a Christian?!"
Middle Eastern guy: "Um...no..."
Homeless man: "God don't want none of your heathen money! Get outta here!"
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The National Mall: Best known as the place where Forrest Gump hugged Jenny
Group of 20-something women jogging in front of the Lincoln Memorial one morning:
Woman 1: "Is this where Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech?"
Woman 2: "No, I think it was somewhere down south."
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It's just across from Water Closet, Ohio
Waiting for a flight at National Airport:
Old guy and med student girl discover they share similar rural roots.
Old guy: "No electricity, heat by fire."
Med student: "Yeah, same."
Old guy: "Grew most of our food right there."
Med student: "Oh yeah, I know."
Old guy: "Outside privy."
Med student: (Thinks for a second) "Ours was outside Louisville."
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But if there were an Air National Guard Never Leaving Texas Memorial...
At U Street-African American Civil War Memorial:
Little African American kid reading names at the memorial: "George Bush was in the army???"
Dad: "What?? No! George Bush wasn't in the army, and he's not African American."
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He is also a maniac.
In an office building at Farrgut North:
Two guys are struggling to assemble a new desk that has arrived.
Guy 1: "How good are you at welding?"
Guy 2: "Uh, I saw 'Flashdance'?"
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Sometimes few words mean more.
Around 13th and G NW on Saturday afternoon:
Two girls around college age in jogging clothes (but walking).
Girl 1 (looking baffled and hung over) to Girl 2: "I woke up in some guy's bed this morning."
Girl 2: "Yeah?"
Girl 1: "Yeah."
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You could argue "they" is citizens of the USSR
At the Spy Museum:
In the "Red Terror" room, which describes how the Bolshevik government in the USSR killed massive amounts of its citizens.
Elderly woman to friend: "That's why they lost World War II."
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We had no idea that bankers were the coolest guys ever
At Brooks Brothers:
Two guys who look like Turtle from Entourage, walking out of the store.
Guy 1: "Shit man, you know how ta tie a fuckin' double-windsor?"
Guy 2: "Hell yes!"
Guy 1: "Aww yeah. That shit is tight, yo."
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And the air is making the birds fly!
A crosswalk on K Street:
Crunchy Greenpeace girl tries to talk to young man in suit.
Girl, cheery: "Do you have a minute for the environment?"
Guy: "Sorry, I'm in a hurry."
Girl, frustrated: "Don't you care about global warming!"
Guy: "Sorry"
Girl, angrily holding out picture of polar bear in water around floating ice patches: "But global warming is drowning the polar bears!!!"
Guy, annoyed: "Polar bears can swim."
Girl: "But the-"
Guy: "Haven't you ever been to a zoo?"