Photo by laura padgett

We spend a lot of time in this column teasing tourists for doing dumb stuff — asking stupid questions, not believing true things about the city, being obnoxious. They provide a lot of money to the city and to manufacturers of FBI t-shirts, but sometimes they’re just funny.

Overheard of the Week

Saturday on the Red line:

A group of tourists get on the train with an elderly grandmother in a wheelchair.

Woman: “Grandmother, does this remind you of your younger days when you used to dance on poles?”

After the jump, weirdos on phones, in Eastern Market, and everywhere! They’re taking over.

Keep the overheards coming, and don’t forget to say who said it and where: overheardindc(at)gmail(dot)com