Overheard in D.C.: Holiday Time
The winter holidays are a big time of year for family. You take photos, somebody always wears a dumb sweater with a reindeer on it, you eat together, shop together, and so on. It's also a big time for couples — do you go to one person's parents' house? Spend time together on the big days? Or purposefully avoid spending it together? And sometimes, even the smallest details take on a lot of symbolism.
Quote of the Week
A Christmas tree lot on Wisconsin at about 9 p.m.:
A busy, attractive, professional, unmarried couple in their early 30s who are clearly still in their work clothes.
Guy to tree-seller: "We'll take this wreath."
Tree-seller to couple: "Don't you want a Christmas tree?"
Couple awkwardly look at each other.
Girl: "We can't commit to that right now."
After the jump, theology/dating, the bar Rumors, and pantological disasters.
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A really dumb theological question, or trans-religious romantic longing?
Catholic University dining hall:
Girl looking at boy with yarmulke: "Why is he Jewish?"
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Why am I not surprised this happened at Rumors.
19th and M (just outside of Rumors)
Late 20s guy talking on his cellphone: "Yeah, it got kinda crazy. She had a lot to drink before everyone left the house. She drank even more at the bar. All of a sudden, she starts dancing and making out with this random dude. Then her boyfriend walked up and yelled at her, and she started crying. No one wants to be crying on their 36th birthday."
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Santa is omnipresent
In front of a residence hall at American University:
One girl to another: "If he knows when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake, surely he can see you in the shower."
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This started out as decent advice...
Outside the Library of Congress:
Guy and girl talking, late 20s/early 30s.
Guy: "You don't have to have sex right away, especially when you're in your early 20s. There was this girl I didn't have sex with for three years."
Girl: "Really?"
Guy: "You remember the Mexican, Maria? After Jen and I broke up I went down to Mexico for her."
Girl: "Oh?"
Guy: "But when I saw her she had gotten FAT. And not in the good way! And then she still wanted to have sex. I was like, no way."
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Everyone who has casual Friday is fucked.
Thursday, an American University bathroom:
Girl 1: "I haven't been able to get my life together lately. I don't know what it is. (Pause) I think it's because I'm wearing jeans today."
Girl 2: "Yeah, that could be it."