Overheard in D.C.: Everybody Gets Dissed
D.C. is a city of archetypes. There's the Hill staffer, the bigshot douchebag, the crackhead, the intern, the yuppie, the tourist. They all came together this week in a melange of stereotypes and stupidity. But not before discovering the newest trend: coming soon to a hip desk near you: vintage office supplies.
Overheard of the Week:
Three State Department interns at McDonalds during lunch rush:
Girl 1: "So I'm supposed to go through her Rolodex after lunch and add all them into Outlook."
Girl 2: "What's a Rolodex?"
Girl 3: "It's this round thing that has a bunch of cards and you put people's contact information. My grandma uses one still."
Girl 2: "Wow! I never heard of that, I totally want one!"
After the jump, counting, getting naked, dumb tourist girls, and polite angry bikers.
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Photo by terecico
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Sesame Street 2: Electric Boogaloo
In front of Bloomingdale Liquors on 1st and Rhode Island on Monday when the double rainbow appeared:
One man on a corner shouting to another: "Look at that. Two! Two motherfucking rainbows!"
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No, dummy, it's where Forrest Gump freed the slaves
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial a couple of Saturdays ago:
Teenage girl: "Hey, look everybody! Here's where Martin Luther King gave his Million Man speech!"
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Also tell mom I'm going on vacation for 5-10 years.
Outside the Navy Yard Metro before a Nats Game:
Guy on a cell phone, dressed in a suit: "Yeah, so I was standing in the hallway and I saw Clinton, Sen. Webb..." and goes on to name more Senators.
He then pauses and says, "yeah, so tell mom I saw Hilary Clinton and I punched her in the face."
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Extreme! Politeness!
At Q St and New Hampshire NW:
A car veers past a bicyclist in the bike lane, nearly grazing him.
Biker, shaking fist: "You are a menace to society!"
Woman walking nearby, to her elderly mother: "I think that's the nicest insult I've heard yelled in this city."
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Suddenly, Build-a-Bear Workshop runs out of mustaches
At Monday night's Gay Day at the Nationals game:
In the bleacher section with the other gays and lesbians, most of whom bought ticket's at last week's Pride festival.
A couple men notice an attractive and fit man with a goatee, a few rows in front of them:
"Ooh, let's go back downstairs and build a bear like him."
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Try the Vice Presidential ward of GW Hospital
Sine' Irish Pub, Pentagon Row, last Thursday:
A table of people are discussing dating and love lives, or lack thereof.
30-something guy: "So, have you met anyone new?"
30-something girl: "I just got rid of the heart rate monitor on Tuesday. How am I supposed to meet someone with a heart monitor?"
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Ah, kickball
Monday night at Kelly's Irish Times:
Female kickballer to male kickballer: "I've decided not to take my clothes off at the bar anymore."
Male kickballer: "Oh really, why?
Female kickballer: "Because no one wants to marry the slut."
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Your weekly intern moment of Zen
On a Red line train around Metro Center, 8 p.m. on Thursday:
Two young women, likely interns:
Girl 1: "I wish I were a gynecologist."
Girl 2: "Why?"
Girl 1: "'Cause I want to talk about sex."
A minute later...
Girl 2: "I used to want to be a dentist 'cause, like, I really care about teeth."