Overheard would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank WMATA for their role in making this feature possible. Metro has been putting people in a position to listen to one another’s conversations for years now. Even disregarding their benefit to this space, simply providing a place to sit and listen to other people’s entertaining lives when you’ve forgotten to bring your book is reason enough for a tip of the hat. On top of that, Metro’s system map is abstract enough to confuse outsiders, but simple enough for us have little sympathy for such confusion. Better still, that abstraction is more than sufficient to really mess with the perceptions of the heavily inebriated. So this weekend, Overheard raises a glass (or three) to the city’s transit system. Without it, our Fridays would be a whole lot more boring.

Quote of the Week

On a metro train:

Drunk girl, looking at the map: “I only left here last May! Since when did they add a light blue line?”
Her friend: “You mean the river…?”

After the jump, potty mouthed pee-wees, presidential appearances, and probation violating parking. And some pubescent posturing for good measure.

Our overheard mailbox was stuffed full this week. Keep up the good work and send those quotes to overheardindc (at) gmail (dot) com.

Photo by Flickr user epmd.