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Lots of presumed weirdos were overheard this week saying bizarre things. Perhaps Halloween has gotten everybody acting strange. Sometimes you just wonder if people ever think before speaking.
Overheard of the Week
At the corner of 18th and Columbia:
A guy in his mid to late 20s is walking with a groomed poodle. A much older woman holding a lapdog approaches him.
Woman (friendly): "Is that your dog?"
Man: "Yeah."
Woman (in same conversational tone): "Are you gay?"
Man: ...
Woman: "It's just that I've never seen a straight man with a dog like that."
Overheard in D.C. assumes there will be some pretty great costume-related overheards this weekend, so keep your ears peeled and be sure to send 'em in to overheardindc(at)gmail(dot)com
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Considering the bar, this makes sense
On the Blue line from Old Town to D.C.:
Guy 1: "Hey man, so D.C. is in Maryland?"
Guy 2: "Umm, no man, it's just D.C. I think."
Guy 1: "So it's in Virginia?"
Guy 2: "No, I think it's just called D.C."
Guy 1: "Ok, so where's McFadden's?"
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Standards
At the P Street Whole Foods:
A man and his son (~ 5yrs old) are standing in line waiting to check out.
Son: (pointing to vitamin water in drink cooler) "What's that?"
Dad: "It's some kind of drink, but it's pink. I don't drink pink stuff. It's gotta have a lot of alcohol in it for me to drink pink stuff."
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Parents just don't understand anything these days!
At Union Station:
Guy waiting for a train, on the phone: "She's been on Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC... she's an experienced body language expert, Mom."
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Light?
On the S2 bus about a week ago:
Guy on his Bluetooth with his girlfriend or wife next to him: "Oh, is he still messin' with her? Yeah... but I think he's gettin' sick of her, though. You know she's into the light prostitution..."
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Someone has watched too many movies.
At El Rinconcito II in Columbia Heights on Sunday night around 9 p.m.:
Two guys and a girl are talking about whether one guy wants to have kids.
Guy: "I don't mind kids, I just don't like babies. They don't talk and never say anything funny."
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As luck would have it
At the Food court in Pentagon City Mall:
Two early 20s women are talking.
Woman #1 (pointing at a kiosk): "Oh, wow. They're selling T-shirts with the Confederate flag on them. Can you believe that?"
Woman #2: "Huh. Never saw that before. You know, if I was more of a racist I'd totally wear one."
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Maybe it was the Capitol building
At a bar on H Street NE:
Man in full Redskins paraphernalia talking to three 20-something women: "As soon as I came to Washington, I just knew... something told me that I was in the capital city of the United States..."
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This can't turn out well
Outside of Whitlow's in the morning:
A mid-20s couple walks by, talking.
Guy: "I didn't say you were fat. I said it looked like you had gained weight."
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That's bloody hilarious. God I miss DC.
Note that most of the comments are from 20-somethings. Must have been all that contaminated milk they got as kids. Good, less competition for jobs.