Photo by señor sideburns.

Sometimes you don’t know where you’re going, but you know where you’ve been. At least one Metro operator knows what I’m talking about.

Overheard of the Week

On the Yellow Line towards Huntington, as the train pulls into Huntington:

Train operator: “This is the yellow line towards… uhh… yellow line to… umm… to here! We’re here, ladies and gentlemen, we made it.”

Still to come in this week’s edition: old people, young people and out-of-town people.

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Good advice!

In the women’s bathroom at Buffalo Billiards:

“I mean, if a guy is a creeper the last thing you tell him is that you’re a lesbian.”

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It could happen

Sunday mid-afternoon, platform of L’Enfant Plaza Metro:

A middle-aged woman approaches an identifiable orthodox Jew who is waiting for the train:

Woman: “Excuse me, are you Irish?”
Orthodox Jew: “No I’m not, ma’am.”
Woman: “Oh, so just Jewish?”
Orthodox Jew: “Yes.”
Woman: “You have a nice rest of the day.” (walks away)

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Better check the birth certificate

Outside the Willard:

Woman on her cell phone: “I can’t be like you. I wasn’t made like you. My parents were black.”

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You darn kids, trying to use benches in our neighborhood!

Near Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Avenue:

Two forty-something men are walking into Comet past two twenty-something women.

One woman says to the other as they stare down Connecticut Avenue towards Politics and Prose, “What is this, Oldpeopleville?” One of the men laughs. The woman says, “No! I didn’t mean you!”

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Transit-oriented development really gets around

On the S2 bus at around 10 p.m.:

Two women in their late 20s/early 30s are conversing: “She’s highly accessible. And I don’t mean that in a slutty way.”

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Hopefully that business isn’t the Puritan Church

Near the 16th and U bus stop:

Businesswoman in her 30s on the phone: “If I want to throw you a stripper party, that is my business.”

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Yes

On Green Line to Greenbelt:

Girl in early twenties, alone, reading article in Onion titled “Last Pick of WNBA Draft Earns Title of Saddest Woman in America.” Reading with brows furrowed, she eventually says aloud “Is this a JOKE?!”

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You best watch out, Commies

Identical twin girls are playing with their dad’s action figures while a plane taxis at DCA:

Girl #1: “Where have you been? I’ve been looking for you.”
Girl #2: “I’ve been over in China. (pause) DESTROYING CHINA!!!”