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There's a lot of dumb people out there -- you don't need me to tell you that. D.C. has a lot of smarties, but we can't all be people with big brains. Sometimes, however, you wonder if people think about what they're saying.
Overheard of the Week
At a crosswalk near Lincoln Park:
An ambulance passes by, lights and sirens going. Two women in their mid-20s are talking.
Woman 1: "Wow, do the sirens really have to be so loud?"
Woman 2: "Yeah, you think they could turn down the volume when they get near people or cars."
Woman 1: "I know, do they need so much attention?"
After the jump, the red menace, coffee, and babies. Not at the same time.
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Well, there already is a place called Bread Line...
Friday morning in Farragut North:
Tourist with a thick Southern accent: "I wanted to visit the democratic republic before it became a socialist republic."
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This is probably why Starbucks coffee always tastes like crap
In a Starbucks off Farragut Square:
Barista 1: "What should our blend be today?"
Barista 2: "I don't know...I hate coffee."
Barista 1: "I know, me too. It's so burnt tasting."
Barista 2: "Ew, I know. How do people even drink it?"
Barista 1: "Well, I think I'll go with Guatemala because it sounds cool."
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If you throw too many spitballs, this is who you have to see.
Outside the Air and Space Museum:
Kid: "What's the Department of Education?"
Dad: "That's where the Principal of the United States lives."
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Awesome!
On 16th and U Street NW, two girls in jogging clothes stop to chat:
Girl 1, while picking wedgie: "These underwear are REALLY uncomfortable."
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You put on shoes...?
On a Red line train:
Woman: "I have a complex about being short. That's why he's never seen me in flats. Well, other than when I'm naked."
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Tucker Carlson Jr.
Flying into D.C. a few nights ago:
A mother and her about 6-year-old son are listening to XM radio.
Mother: "What are you listening to?"
Son: "Number 157."
A moment passes.
Mother: "Conservative radio!!??"
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Friendly bus drivers: cool.
On the 52 bus in the morning:
Driver to people on the sidewalk: "C'mon y'all, don't be shy, we rocking and rolling today!"
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Because the city was loves toddlers!!
On the Orange line towards New Carrollton at Foggy Bottom around 9 p.m. on July 3:
A group of tourists plunk down behind me.
Tourist Dad: "We need to switch to the Green Line. We get off at (affected bad french accent) LLLAAAAAAAAAFONT plaza."
Tourist Kid: "What?"
Tourist Dad: "LAAAAFONT.... it means 'baby.'"
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You know it's pretty much a grid, right?
On 17th Street just south of K:
A lost elderly couple flags down a pedestrian.
Driver: "How do I get to Dupont Circle?"
Pedestrian: "Turn around, and go up Connecticut four blocks and you'll be there."
Driver: "OK, thanks."
Pedestrian: "Where are you trying to go?"
Driver: "National Airport. But our directions are from Dupont Circle."
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"There's a lot of dumb people out there..."
Really?
Did you read the part right after that?
The whole thing. Was it meant to be self-depricating?
Isn't that Marion Barry's personal chef in the orange hat?
NICE!
Yes it was. Well done cminus!
Can someone explain why the underwear one is funny or in any way appropriate for this feature?
Also, "Because the city was loves toddlers!!"? Seriously? I'm starting to wonder if you're regretting your lead-in on this piece at all . . .
Wait, you think that's inappropriate? Really?
Zzzzzzzzz......
I think the elderly couple asking for directions to Dupont to get them back on track with their directions is one of the most reasonable and sensible things I've ever heard. Especially in light of the fact the neither Connecticut Avenue or National Airport are on a grid.
Tourists are so dumb.
This week's Overheards are duds.
I agree, why would the city being built on a grid give a tourist any indication of where Dupont Circle is, or how to employ the directions they'd been given based on the grid?
Many tourists do act stupid but not these.
Meh, they weren't all losers, but the directions one and the girl picking a wedgie certainly were. People wear and complain about uncomfortable underwear all the time. So what? And I actually thought that right wing tourist guy's democratic republic/socialist republic joke was kind of funny, even though I don't agree with his politics.
I don't see a problem with most of these. In fact, I'm going to use the "principal of the United States" line.
Thanks!
Overheard at the National Arboretum yesterday in one of the gardens:
60-something woman to another 60-something woman:
"This may sound a little strange, but I haven't had wine in several weeks."
Molly!
Ruff!
Woof!
Pretty weak this week
I liked these, especially the one of the Starbucks employees. Perhaps it should serve better as a PSA.
I liked, "you put shoes on?" I know, I know. I write here. Doesn't count. But I liked it.
I'll just add that, AFAIK, L'Enfant does indeed mean "the baby." To be honest, Pierre L'Enfant never really did anything that out-of-towners should know about. Seriously -- do Chicagoans go, "haha, what a tourist, he doesn't know who Daniel Burnham is!"? No? Then why should anyone give a crap about "Peter The Infant" and a plan for DC that was never fully realized and took major revisions by his successors before it could be implemented?