Overheard in D.C.: Humility
D.C. isn't really a place with a lot of humble people. You don't have to be a type-A, self-aggrandizing person to get ahead in politics and other jobs, but it helps. But like Reading Rainbow, don't take my word for it.
Overheard of the Week
Walking to the Shaw/Howard Metro:
Guy: "I realized recently how humble I am."
Girl: "Really? How so?"
Guy: "Well, I was riding the bus and I looked around, and have you seen the people that ride the bus?"
After the jump, dumb kids, strong relationships, and cowboys.
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Photo by Jordan Higgins
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Stereotypes: sometimes accurate
Two college age girls are riding up the escalator at the Eastern Market Metro:
Girl 1: "How was your break?"
Girl 2: "Good, I went shopping with my sister on Black Friday. She bought herself Christmas presents."
Girl 1: "What did she get?"
Girl 2: "A new pair of Uggs, a North Face jacket...all the essentials."
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Talk about committment
At the Columbia Heights Giant:
Two female friends in their early 20s are gossiping about a college classmate of theirs who married her high school sweetheart, then cheated on him.
Friend #1: "Was it like a one-time thing?"
Friend #2: "Yeah, but she told him, and she was like, obviously there's something wrong if I don't feel bad about it."
Friend #1: "Where was he?"
Friend #2: "He's like, in the reserves. He leaves for like, a weekend at a time every other month or something."
Friend #1: "Oh, well, that's understandable, then. It's hard going that long without someone."
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Probably not a candidate for the Mossad
In the sanctuary of the 6th & I Synagogue, waiting for the Stella show
to start:
Guy to girl: "Have you ever been to a Seder? Fucking great; all that Jew food. Best thing that ever happened to me."
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Classy
Two girls walking past Rhino Bar on M Street around midnight on Thursday:
Girl #1: "...and she is really..."
Girl #2: "A slut?"
Girl #1: "No! Anorexic. Her face is all shrunken and stuff."
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And he doesn't even have scurvy!
Outside the Mt. Vernon Inn:
Waiter in colonial costume is on a cell phone. Sees patrons, shuts cell phone and mutters to himself, "That was not colonial..."
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Something you should think about before leaving the house
Two guys yelling at each other across I Street SE:
Guy 1: "Hey man, where you going?"
Guy 2: "Going to the game, want to come?"
Guy 1: "No man, I ain't got no clothes on."
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Yeah, meet me at high noon at the Reston Corral.
Outside the Shirlington Capitol City Brewing a few months ago:
Girl 1: "Do you ever wonder what people from other states think of our people in our state? Like people in Richmond think about us from Northern Virginia?"
Girl 2: "Yeah, like, they think we are cowboys or whatever?"
Girl 1: "Not Exactly."
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It's like that map of the world focused on New York City, except way dumber
Two twenty-somethings eating lunch at Potbelly in Dupont:
Girl: "Oh shit! Of course I've been to New Jersey. My dad took me to an Orioles game when I younger."
Guy: (no response)