Overheard in D.C.: Hairy Situations
Taking a kid to get a haircut can be easy ("What do you want?" "I dunno, same thing") or it be can an awful ordeal. Here's to moms and dads who are patient when junior wants a mohawk or a rat-tail or something like that.
Overheard of the Week
At an Arlington barber shop:
A woman is trying to convince her 10-year-old son to get a non-terrible haircut. After some earnest debate over how to define terms like "short" and "mullet," the kid switched tactics.
Kid: "A mullet is shorter. I want a ponytail."
Mom (patiently): "You don't have the kind of hair that grows into a ponytail. You have Rod Blagojevich hair."
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After the jump, weird questions, food, and more.
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Health care reform?
Guy in a suit to two others outside the Hart Senate Office Building:
"Now you know why baby unicorns cry."
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A chair?
At Meskerem on 18th Street in Adams Morgan:
A middle-aged couple walks in.
Woman to maitre d': "So... where would you say the most Ethiopian place to sit would be?"
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Sadly, there were probably more Phils people on the train, so they need these obvious directions
On the Yellow Line after the Phillies v Nats game on Tuesday:
Metro operator: "Keep in mind customers, that no matter which door you exit from on this train, you'll end up on the same platform."
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In fairness, it was probably both.
Outside Union Station, Sept. 7:
A homeless man approaches another homeless man:
Homeless man #1: "Hey man! How ya been? What you been up to?"
Homeless man #2: (mumbles something softly)
Homeless man #1: "Chillin?"
Homeless man #2: "JAIL!"
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Good question, Ted Koppel!
On a sidewalk on the closed part of Constitution Avenue, about 10 minutes before the President's speech on health care:
Police cars are everywhere.
Non-touristy looking 40-something in khaki pants to a Capitol Police officer: "What's going on?"
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This wouldn't be funny in a sitcom, but in real life, it is.
At the CVS on Dupont Circle last Friday:
Man, screaming at the top of his lungs to the cashier: "CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE THE HEARING AID BATTERIES ARE?"
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Sort of missing the point.
At Smith & Wollensky during Restaurant Week:
Two underdressed couples at dinner: "We're the ones that called ahead. Are there any vegetarian options on the Restaurant Week menu?"
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That's salesmanship!
T-shirt vendor outside RFK after a DC United game: "Five dollar T-shirts! Five dollars, stupid!"
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