Photo by cstein

For whatever reason, cupcakes have taken over. They’re small, they’re sweet, they’re everywhere. There are reality shows about them and people stand in extremely long lines to get them. But maybe the trend has gone too far, if this is now how we measure things:

Overheard of the Week

On a Penn Quarter sidewalk:

A girl in her 20s talking to her friend about her new apartment: “The place is really cute. But the kitchen is, like, really ghetto. I don’t even have room for my cupcake carrier.”

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After the jump, kids thinking, kids debating politics, and people on elevators.

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Kids’ minds are a mystery

A kid is riding the bus with his dad:

Kid, out of nowhere: “I don’t like fruit snacks.”
Dad starts laughing.

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This sounds legit

Group of high school aged kids on Irving Street a few nights ago:

Boy to girls: “Y’all wanna make $3500?”
Girls: …
Boy: “Y’all aren’t even over 18. It’s a sperm donor…”

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Duh, don’t park under the tree

Early Friday afternoon, outside St Matthew’s Cathedral in Dupont Circle:

A young woman and man (mid-20s) are getting into her parked car.

Young woman, complaining: “There are grapes on my car.”
Young man: “How many?”
Young woman, picking one off the windshield: “Two.”

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Valentine’s Day is coming up!

Two mid to late 20’s guys at Fadó in Chinatown on Friday night:

First guy: “You have a girl?”
Second guy: “Yeah.”
First guy: “Like a full time girl, or a tonight girl?”

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She lies and has glasses?

Man and woman cross Wisconsin Avenue NW near the Steak n’ Egg in Tenleytown on Friday night:

Woman says, “She’s not two-faced. She’s not four-faced. She’s six-faced.”

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A good sign!

In Dupont Circle:

Woman on a cell phone: “No, no, I’m allowed to work, just not at schools!”

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Ah, college kids

American University girls at a table in the Tenleytown Panera, Saturday about noon:

Girl: “He’s becoming like, super conservative, he only stayed at Occupy DC for like, a day.”

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People who don’t speak English understand this. Why doesn’t everybody else?

Overheard (in Spanish) at a street stall in Silver Spring selling fruit, candy, snacks, tamales, coffee, etc.:

Man (to a younger man, with indignation): “Just don’t trade my tamales for McDonald’s. You can’t go trading tamales for hamburgers—that’s how you get fat.”

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Ah, tourists

On a flight into Reagan Washington National Airport on Dec. 2:

Pilot: “Ladies and gentleman, on the left side of the plane you’ll see a lovely view of Mount Vernon.”
Tourist: “I don’t see any mountains.”
(A bit later)
Tourist 1: “Look! There it is! There is the tower!”
Tourist 2: “The monument?”
Tourist 1: “And the Capitol, and the Triangle Building!”

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A Smurf convention?

Friday night during happy hour outside the Big Hunt in Dupont Circle:

Mid-40s guy in a suit: “You’re telling me this place is full of light blue bastards?”

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Don’t worry, it happens to every guy

In a building in Silver Spring:

Late middle aged couple walks into an elevator. The man fumbles
at the number, so another person helps him out by pushing the button.

He tells his wife, “It didn’t respond to my touch!” Awkward silence. Couple exits the elevator looking embarrassed.

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