Photo by Amber Wilkie

While you were busy getting shook by an earthquake and stockpiling hurricane supplies (whiskey, gin), college in D.C. is getting underway. Youngsters are back in town, unloading their parents’ SUVs, running around talking about how cool D.C. is and mobbing stores for school supplies. Among other things.

Overheard of the Week

Weeknight in the Target in Columbia Heights:

Two early 20s males are looking at shower curtains and other bathroom items:

1st guy: “Is there anything more quintessentially ‘college’ than a shower caddy?”
2nd guy: “Maybe crabs.”

After the jump, genitals, kids and bad words. Not at the same time.

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Good advice for everybody

At the corner of 7th and N:

This morning, mom to her young daughter: “Just because you have a change of clothes at school doesn’t mean you can pee yourself all the time.”

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Does he know something we don’t?

While waiting in the tunnel between Pentagon City and Pentagon on a train full of tourists Saturday morning:

Little boy (to Dad): “Where are all the zombies?! You said there would be zombies!”

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You are right.

On Q Street in Dupont Circle on Monday evening:

One 20-something woman to her friends, a guy and a girl: “You know, it would be a whole different world for me if I had different genitalia.”

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This kid PARTIES

Friday evening, 9 p.m., outside of Buca di Beppo on Connecticut Avenue:

A family exits the restaurant. Dad remarks how nicely the temperature dropped after the storms passed through.

Son, maybe 8 years old: “Do you think I could have a nightcap?”

Everyone within earshot busted out laughing.

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No, and…no

On a flight coming into DCA from Minneapolis on Thursday morning:

Woman pointing out the window at Alexandria, just north of the Wilson Bridge. “Must be Georgetown.”

A few minutes later, to her companion: “I heard the new Air and Space Museum near IAD is much bigger and much cooler than the Smithsonian one in D.C.”

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The perils of the modern world

Outside the Tenleytown Chef Geoff’s:

Two early-thirties women in professional dress are talking.

Woman 1: “But you can’t even put your old password in to change it to something new?”
Woman 2: “No, because I can’t enter it in either way now that they’ve applied the profanity filter!”

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Grab a boat and find out!

On the dock at Fletcher’s Cove:

Woman, looking at the river: “So, how far does this go?”
Man: “Well…uh…it’s the Potomac.”
Woman: “Oh. So, quite a long way then.”
Man: “Yes.”

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First the Tea Party, now the…

Guy jogging out of a bathroom in the Capitol Visitors Center, running back over to his family:

“Ha-ha! I peed in the Capitol.”