Overheard in D.C.: Green Washington
D.C. is blessed with a lot of green space: parks, gardens, the Mall, and more. There's a couple botanical gardens, grottoes, fancy manicured lawns, and trees everywhere. Rock Creek is almost a wilderness in places, and even the smallest little pocket parks have nice landscaping. It's good that visitors can appreciate it.
Overheard of the Week
On a bench in the Sculpture Garden:
A touristy woman and her daughter walk by a flower bush.
Mom: "Oh my god, those flowers smell like taco shells, you know, the kind we have at home."
Daughter stops and smells: "No way, they smell like the shoe department at Wal-Mart."
The mom nods and they walk away.
After the jump, the cemetery and tourists, tourists, tourists.
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Yeah, try it!
Near New Hampshire and S Street NW:
Older woman: "So if I open a business and only hire poor people - it could be a non-profit?"
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You know, if it takes a concert for that to happen, you might want to have a talk.
At the Passion Pit show at the Black Cat on Tuesday night:
Sweaty dancing girl turns away from boyfriend to her friends: "I'm so getting laid tonight."
Friend: "What?"
Sweaty dancing girl: "I'm so getting laid tonight - I'm sorry guys, there is just something about concerts, you know?"
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Way to honor our dead!
In Arlington Cemetery. Two middle-aged women fumble through a map of the cemetery:
Woman 1, indignantly: "Where are all the presidents? I thought all the presidents were here!"
Woman 2: "Well, there's Kennedy... and let's see, here's Taft."
Woman 1, furiously: "Taft?! They have Taft. Great. I thought all the presidents were here! This sucks!"
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What, 200 pennies?
On the 90 bus:
Man to other passengers: "Anyone got change for 40 nickels?"
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Grandma knows what's up
On Pennsylvania Ave at the gated entrance to East Executive Drive near the White House:
Daughter: "Mommy, can we go in there??"
Mother: "No honey, the guy with the gun won't let us."
Grandmother: "God, we look like such tourists."
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OK... moving on
In front of an office building downtown in the middle of the storm on Tuesday:
Woman 1, opening her umbrella: "Hey, what do you think is the likelihood we'll get struck by lightning? I mean, don't you think it's weird that umbrellas have metal spikes on top?"
Woman 2: "Well, my husband will become a very wealthy man!"
Woman 1, taken aback: "I, for one, don't want to be struck by lightning."
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Let's think about what this place is named...
In Arlington Cemetery:
A 30ish man is strolling with friends: "Wait, so do they have the actual remains here too? It's not just the headstones?"
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Why do I feel like the dad should have a pipe?
On a quiet street in Georgetown on Saturday morning:
A well-dressed family (mom, dad, toddler, and nanny) is walking out of their rowhouse and piling into their Mercedes SUV.
Mom yells angrily to Dad: "That's it, we are NOT going to the puppet show! [kid] spit on [nanny], AGAIN! He's ruined our Saturday!"
Dad says to toddler: "Now son, you know better than that!"
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That will be $600.
At Woodley Park Metro:
Tourist with a European accent walks up to the station attendant's office: "I'd like two tickets to Pentagon City, please."