Photo by Command Z.

You’ve got to love CVS: they’re always friendly, the self-checkout machines are never broken, and the employees totally have an encyclopedic knowledge of what’s in the store.

Overheard of the Week

At CVS in the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center:

Middle-aged man holding the hand of a shy toddler approaches an employee.

Man: “Do y’all have Huggies?”
Employee: “Huh?”
Man: “Huggies?”
Employee: “Do you mean for…” [makes incomprehensible motion involving both hands in a twisting motion] “…uh, no.”
Man (confused): “Ya know, for the butts!”
Employee: “What!?”
Man: “For the little ones!”
Employee: “Oh, sure. In aisle four. Didn’t realize you wanted Pampers.”

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It never gets old. Or does it?

Crossing Pennsylvania Ave on 12th Street NW, where you can see the Capitol if you turn left:

Kid, to dad: “Look Dad, the White House!”

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Damn insane liberal media

At the National Press Club in the morning:

Two 50-60 year olds, presumably journalists, are talking over coffee.

Woman, completely serious: “You know, right now there are ETs building bunkers under Antarctica.”
Man agrees, conversation continues inaudibly.

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The best part is when you stand in line FOREVER to get one

Saturday night, 8 p.m. on the Circulator from Union Station to Georgetown:

Three 20-something girls chatting.

Girl 1: “I’m having cupcake babies.”
Girl 2: “Who doesn’t love cupcake babies?”
Girl 3: “They are the best babies to have.”

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Look Dad, I earned the Lame Analogies Badge!

Near the Lincoln Statue on D Street next to the Courthouse:

A group of Boy Scouts are sitting around the statue listening to their leader reading from a book.

Scout leader finishes reading a quote by Abraham Lincoln and says, “so basically, Lincoln is saying that you can do whatever you set your mind to do…which means Lincoln had very similar values to Barney.”

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So what was it a picture of?

Townhouse Tavern on R Street NW on Friday night:

Two girls are looking at pictures on a phone.

Girl 1: “Is that a penis?”
Girl 2: “No, asshole. That’s me.”

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Right, because normally in D.C. we just give things random geographic names. Have you been to the Target near the Columbia Glacier Metro? It’s nice.

On Capitol Hill, outside of the Cannon Office Building:

Activists walk out of the House building and look down Independence Ave.

One of them: “Oh, so that’s why they call it a hill…”

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Learn to move to the middle of the car, then we’ll talk

At Federal Center SW:

A train offloads at Federal Center SW at the tail end of Friday’s rush hour after experiencing delays due to a problem outside of Eastern Market.

A woman’s voice comes over the loudspeakers: “Attention all station managers. Be advised that we are now honoring MARC passengers.”
Frustrated man: “What about ORANGE LINE passengers?”