Overheard in D.C.: Halloween Edition
It may be Halloween, but since the shenanigans won't get started until tonight, we don't have much actually in the way of ghoul-related overheards. Unless you kind of stretch it...
Overheard of the Week
At work at GWU:
A guy is talking to a second guy in his office about how he was watching Stone Phillips on TV this weekend, marveling at how much guy #2 resembles Stone Phillips.
Guy #2: "Well, my mom slept with a lot of guys. I have no idea."
After the jump, money, threesomes, and old presidents.
Keep your ears peeled this Halloween. overheardindc(at)gmail(dot)com
Photo by rockcreek
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From the makers of Who's Nailn' Paylin?
Overheard while waiting for the drag race to begin in Dupont:
Man: "I want to have a three way between Mayor Fenty and Governor O'Malley."
(NB: don't Google Who's Nailin' Paylin if you're at work)
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Happy birthday
In a Fairfax County high school:
Teacher: "Teddy Roosevelt turned 150 years young on Monday!"
Student: "Wait, he's still alive??"
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But being in Tom Tom's, you're back to 0.
In Tom Tom's Saturday night:
A guy knocked his beer off the bar and then caught it with his other hand right before it flipped over.
Guy's friend: "Wow, that's worth like 187 man points."
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Write-in? More like wrong-in! Hey-o!
On the sidewalk at Jack's before the Dupont high heel race started:
Girl 1: "Who's Carol Schwartz?"
Girl 2: "I think she's running for Congress."
Girl 1: "Oh, that's right."
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The injections are just water.
On a DASH bus on King Street, headed into Old Town Alexandria:
An early 20s girl on the phone, talking progressively louder:
"Yeah, she's such a selfish bitch..."
"She just keeps faking her diabetes..."
"I mean, who fakes being a diabetic?"
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Sexy!
Outside the Brooking Institution around lunch time:
Two females in their 30s, apparent office manager types, are walking out of the
Brookings.
One woman to the other: "There's something about that woman that my son just has to
chew on her."
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Your... the... what?
Outside of Old Ebbitt:
Guy 1: "Check out my new car."
Guy 2: "Man! Where'd you get that? Steal it?"
Guy 1: "Nah, I got it with my tent money."
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Suddenly troop morale plummets.
Wednesday night in Columbia Heights near the Target:
Early 20s girl on phone: "...send the Beanie Babies to the soldiers fighting in Iraq? No, I don't think I'm going to do that. I'm going to take them to Dad's house instead."
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And Princess Di, Mick Jagger -- same deal.
At Panera Bread at Ballston Common Mall this morning:
A twenty-something woman: "And he was...You know what he's like? Simon Cowell. He's from England."