Overheard in D.C.: Grocery Store Parenting
Parenting is not an easy job. Educating kids, teaching them right from wrong, not spoiling them but treating them well, giving them life lessons. Kids can be terrors, and they can be annoying, and they can be sweet. But why does it always seem like the most unusual parenting happens in the grocery store?
Quote of the Week
Giant Food in Columbia Heights around noon last Friday:
Mom pushing two kids, one of whom was clearly school age.
Girl points to cereal box featuring children's book character Arthur the Aardvark.
Girl: "Look Mom, it's Arthur, I love Arthur. I get to read about him in Sunday School."
Mom: "No shit Sherlock, you think I don't know who Arthur is? Bitch. I know who Arthur is. Fuck... Sunday School! Arthur? Bitch."
A church lady witnessing this scene looked woozy after hearing that and ran to catch up with the family.
After the jump, weapons at the Armory, Jar Jar Binks, and the wrong work.
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Photo by SweetJen34
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It is the Armory, after all.
While waiting in the long line outside the DC Armory on Saturday for the DC Roller Girls event:
Man in green-hooded sweatshirt: "Dude, I made it all the way up to the front and then they wouldn't let me in... just because I had a fucking knife. Sucks!"
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What's the Dewey Decimal number for mixology?
About a week ago at a DC Public Library:
A lady who is quickly approaching 50 has just spent the past 30 minutes on the phone, talking about nothing work-related, ending her conversation reciting her dc dot gov email address.
She hangs up the phone and belches. "I need a dot drink!"
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Oopsie
During a meeting at the Pentagon:
An officer is giving a presentation talking about how he spent 4 months working on this project, and shows a very complicated spreadsheet and simulation. At the very end of the briefing, there is a long pause.
Big boss to presenter's boss: "Did someone ask for this work to be done?"
(Long silence in the room)
Presenter's boss: "No."
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It's right near stick it up your ass
At 10th & W St NW, 7:30am on Monday:
Woman: "I'm not from Southeast."
Man: "You are now."
Woman: "I'm not from any neighborhood. I'm from my mother's womb."
Man: "What part of town is that?"
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At least he doesn't look like Jar Jar
Inside the corridor of the Pentagon:
Two officers walking, talking about someone.
Officer 1: "[someone] is getting promoted today"
Officer 2: "Was he ROTC cadre once? The name sounds familiar."
Officer 1: "Yeah he was... Do you know him?"
Officer 2: "He's a tall guy... looks like Darth Vader when Luke took off his helmet?"
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Snotty-nosed kid part II
After a performance at Sidney Harman Hall (Shakespeare Theatre) on Thursday night (Feb. 21, 2008), the eve of the expected Icepocalypse:
Teenage boy: "Some guy from, like, Wisconsin or Michigan or something is deciding whether the schools will be open."
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That's harsh.
Last Friday night at the Georgetown theater during a showing of "Vantage Point":
College aged guy saying a little too loudly: "At least Snakes on a Plane was good!"