Photo by Julie Lyn.

It seems like the cool thing to do these days is hoping/begging/pleading for a fancy grocery store to come to your neighborhood: Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, Ellwood Thomspon’s, whatever. But maybe it’s not so much the store, as it is what’s inside that causes such passion.

Overheard of the Week

At Harris Teeter in Pentagon City, early Monday evening at the front entrance of the store near the shopping carts.

Mother: “[Boy’s name], get in the cart now. You don’t want your father to start yelling and you know he gets deranged around produce.”

After the jump, buses, the engines of government, and Vegas, baby.

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