The holidays are over. We’re as sad to report it as you are to hear it, because next week, for the first time in over a month, we have to work a full five days. Some of you who had less lenient schedules may be primed to tell us to quit our whining. Those of us who spent the past month stringing together vacation days and holidays to make a patchwork of leisure time punctuated by the occasional visit to an increasingly unfamiliar office, well, we probably deserve a little of your derision. But grant us a pass as we reach back for the last of the holiday-themed overheard quotes in a desperate straw-grasping effort to pretend that we’re still in the midst of the season of sleeping in for days at a time.

Quote of the Week

New Year’s Eve, two well dressed partiers are in the middle (literally) of 18th Street, 1:30am:

Woman: “I HATE you! Get away from me!”
Cop over his intercom: “Get out of the street!”
Man: “Fine! Go be with someone else then!” [starts walking away]
Woman: “Nooooo!!!! But I LOOOVE you!!!!”

After the jump, 21st century digital mom, arguments for maintaining an “office voice”, and the school of life.

The overheard mailbox has been regularly overflowing the past couple of weeks. Keep up the good work and send your quotes to overheardindc (at) gmail (dot) com.

Photo by Flickr user Magritte02.