Overheard in D.C.: March Madness Edition
Kansas down for the count! Michigan State over Maryland in the final second of the game! Overheard in D.C. on Sunday instead of Friday! Dogs and cats, living together! It's March Madness and spring break and your editors have gone wild. This week's overheard captures the excitement.
Overheard of the Week:
At Union Station:
A late-20s woman talking to a man; "I have a lot of conflicting priorities. Like, how am I going to watch the Sweet Sixteen during my sister's wedding?"
After the break: St. Patty's shenanigans, epistemology, and cellular (dis)service.
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On the corner of New York Ave and 9th Street NW:
One twenty-something man to another: "Yeah, well, she got more issues then a magazine."
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But did you see his pitchfork?
At a bar near 14th and U Streets NW.
A group of friends is discussing a person they all disdain:
Guy to friend: "I've seen him naked and, surprisingly, he does not have a tail."
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When Irish eyes are ogling
Outside Murphy's Irish Pub in Alexandria on St. Patrick's Day.
Two guys selling green beads to raise money for MS approach a group of girls in line:
Guy 1: "These ladies need someone to buy them some beads!"
Guy 2: "No these ladies need me like 15 years ago."
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Say that louder? Into the receiver?
On a bus somewhere in the city:
A woman is talking on her cell phone.
Bus driver: I'm trying to get y'all to Union Station as fast as I can.
Woman to phone: You hear that? My bus driver is going to get me to Union as fast as he can.
Bus driver: (muttering) Yeah, so I can get you off that phone as fast as I can.
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I don't have to put up with this on the ferry!
Beneath the Potomac River, on the Orange Line between Foggy Bottom and Rosslyn stations:
An indignant teenage tourist holding up her cell phone: "Washington, D.C., why don't you have any service?!"
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Judges 1:6
On the corner of Pennsylvania Ave and 7th Street NW:
A group of high school–aged boys and girls are talking:
Girl: "It's not fictional. It's in the Bible!"
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Beggars can be losers
In front of Hooters in Chinatown:
Guy: "Does anybody have any non-menthol cigarettes?"
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What Georgetown tour isn't a bar crawl?
Near the Tombs in Georgetown on Saturday:
A tour guide passes by during brunch talking to a tour group:
Guide: "And here is the Tombs. We won't go in since there's small children with us, but it's just full of drunk college kids anyway."