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The holidays are near, which means running all over, shopping, picking up relatives, making food, traveling, general craziness. Even on Metrorail.
Overheard of the Week
In Farragut West station about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday:
A man in a business suit is running at full speed to catch an Orange Line train.
Metrorail employee: “Hey! Stop running!”
Businessman: “I have to poop!”
Below, we’ve got hilarious kids, strange ideas about relationships and tough questions about geography.
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This is a tough one.
Two 20-something girls walking by The Cajun Experience in Adams Morgan:
Creole music blasts onto the sidewalk
Girl 1: “What kind of music is that? Polka?”
Girl 2: “I dunno, but it’s silly.”
Both girls begin to dance with jerky movements while walking.
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This should immediately become a phenomenon.
Middle schoolers at the ice skating rink in at the National Gallery of Art’s sculpture carden:
Kid 1: “What is ‘WTF’?”
Kid 2: “Whoa, That’s Fantastic!”
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There’s a lot going on with this conversation.
About 2 p.m. on Friday in the “leftist” book section of Idle Times in Adams Morgan:
Two girls were discussing their attraction to Republicans because, as
Democratic women, Republican men represented “bad boys.”
Girl 1: “I can’t help it. There’s just something hot about sleeping with a guy who I know would deny me an abortion.”
Girl 2: “Well, it’s all about pissing off daddy.”
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I think there’s a name for this.
A few Wednesdays ago at 16th and L streets NW:
A woman in her mid-20s speaking on the phone: “I’ve been backstabbed in the back before, but this is the first time I’ve been backstabbed in the front.”
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In these tough financial times…
At 14th and Irving streets NW:
A young man dressed as Santa Claus and a young woman dressed as an elf flag down a cab.
Older man on the street: “SANTA! Where my God damn money?”
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This makes having kids sound fun.
On K Street NW in front of Archibald’s:
A mother, father and their two tweenish-looking daughters are walking. The girls stop in front of Archibald’s, read the awning and whisper to each other:
Daughter: “Mom, whats a gentleman’s club?”
Mother: “Ask your father.”
Daughter: “Dad, what is it?”
Father: “Ask your sister.”
Mother smacks father with purse.
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Maybe this is what’s wrong with the post office: Mail going to the wrong continents.
At a Georgia Avenue post office:
Man asks how much it will cost to send his box of Christmas presents to Romania.
Postal worker peers at a chart for an extended period of time and asks, “So, Romania. Is that in Central or South America?”
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This is a tough one.
Lunchtime at the Panda Express in the Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland, College Park:
Girl: “So which one is better for you—white rice or fried rice?”
Guy: (Considers, then speaks definitively.) “White rice.”
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Occupy, um, not really sure.
Riding the S2 bus past McPherson Square about 5 p.m. Thursday:
Young woman to her friend, a man of similar age: “I wonder what’s going on there? I’ll have to watch the news again.”
Man: “It has to do with orphans and oil dependency.”
Woman: “Yeah, I be watching the news tonight.”
Man: “I heard they have one set up in Baltimore too.”
Woman: “Obviously no one’s listening.”
