It has recently come to my attention that it is pretty hard to eavesdrop on Metro during an afternoon rush hour unless volume of the conversation is particularly loud. Of course, it might be easier if I weren’t listening to my iPod. However, it also seems that many of our submissions come from people on, entering, or exiting the Metro. So, we ask you, fair people of D.C., please do not pay attention to the people writing things in little notebooks. Continue to carry on your sometimes inappropriate personal conversations at top volume. You may get some dirty looks from fellow commuters, but we here at DCist love what comes out of it.

We also wanted to belatedly congratulate the kind and generous captains of the model for this feature, Michael Malice and S. Morgan Friedman, on making the jump from the electronic world to the print world.

As always, this feature couldn’t be possible without you, the reader. So send what you’ve got to overheardindc (at) gmail (dot) com.

Quote of the Week
(Special Academy Award edition)

American University shuttle bus:

Girl 1: “That guy was a jerk.”
Girl 2: “I can’t believe he was Dustin Hoffman’s son.”
Girl 1: “When he left, we should have been all, ‘Tell your dad Tootsie is my favorite movie.'”

After the jump, riding the Metro breeds togetherness, just another Adams Morgan Saturday night, the diversity of D.C., and Valentine’s romance.