Photo by Mr. T in DC.

We can accept that it is somewhat difficult for outsiders to wrap their minds around the District’s unique situation with regard to autonomy, voting rights and the such. But the physical geography of the District?

Overheard of the Week

Two teenage girls sitting at a lunch counter in DuPont Circle:

Girl 1: I’m telling you, we’re in Virginia.
Girl 2: No, we’re in Washington, D.C.! D.C. stands for District of Columbia!
Girl 1: So we’re in what, Columbia? There is no part of the United States that isn’t in a State!

This goes back and forth for some time before a 20-something woman pipes in, explaining that this is a federal district and that it was created to house the federal capital.

Girl 1: The capital of the whole United States? I thought we were in the capital of Virginia!
Girl 2: Rolls her eyes. No that’s Richmond! [Directed to the woman] Don’t mind her, she’s from North Carolina.

Keep reading for bathroom revelations, museums and kids these days.

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You were expecting something else?

2 high school girls walk into a ladies restroom.

Girl: “Oh, there are girls in here…this is a good sign.”

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Can you be more specific?

Last Saturday, at the information desk at the Natural History Museum:

Visitor: “Which is the museum with all the stuff from the past?”
Me: “Um, well, all of them.”

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Kids these days

Saturday night, Green line train to Verizon Center for the Caps game:

Girl: I need a cigarette. I’ve got some American Spirits.
Guy: They’re sooo expensive. The price of being a hipster.
Girl: You have to spend so much money just to look dirty and grimy.

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Eww, dude

Woman in mid-twenties stands with two guys in mid-twenties outside the Raven.

Woman: “Oh my god, I totally sharted.”
Guy #1: “Wait…let me check.”

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Kids these days, part two

On a D1 bus to Federal Triangle, crowded with boisterous 7-8 year-olds on a field trip to the Phillips Collection, on Wednesday morning:

On 7-8 year-old to another: “It’s AWESOME because you get to punch people in the face!”

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I hope it’s Donatello

I was in the building to go to a meeting. I entered the building at the same time as three guys roughly my age (late twenties). As we all get in the up elevator, one of the three asks the other two, in total seriousness, “So, do you think you will be able to break in to her
apartment to get the Ninja Turtle costume back?’

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Erm

Two delivery drivers standing at loading dock of downtown hotel.

Delivery Driver: “Is is near the Kennedy Center, you know, where Kennedy was shot?”

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Too late

Woman chaperoning a group of 10 elementary school students on an Orange line Metro train at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday.

“Let’s not annoy the people going to work. Whoever wins gets a lollipop.”

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Let’s play a guessing game

Chinatown, Sunday afternoon.

Two women, one says to the other: “And to think, just a few months ago you were a straight girl without a bike, and now…”

Trails off.