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With all the hubbub around the holidays, all the stress, family drama, stampedes at stores, long lines, returns, and the “war on Christmas,” it’s easy to forget the good stuff about this time of year.

Overhead of the Week

Walking around Friendship Heights a few days after Christmas:

Six-year-old girl: “I loved today. Today was the best day ever.”

After the jump, D.C. vs New York, sexy babies and buses.

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Hear hear

At Flying Fish Coffee in Mount Pleasant:

A regular customer was complaining loudly to the owner and staff how D.C. just isn’t as cool as New York City.

At one point, the owner simply said: “If I had to have this conversation with everyone I know, I’d shoot myself in the brain.”

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And modesty is a recessive gene

Young couple at Filomena in Georgetown:

Guy: “It’s important that I date only hot girls.”
Girl: “I feel the same way!”
(they high five)
Later:
Girl: “If we have a baby it better be a boy, because if it’s a girl we’re both so hot we’d be in trouble.”

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Maybe he needs to try, uh, different stuff

Two Hill staffers are discussing the new intern at the Cannon House Office Building:

Staffer No. 1: “He eats ramen a lot; especially towards the end of the month.”
Staffer No. 2: “Yeah, and when he bought his iPad, he was eating ramen for a while afterwards.”

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Metro must have some kind of humor training. And for that we thank you.

On the Route 92 Metrobus near the Florida Avenue and 18th Street NW construction site:

Passenger: “I’ll just get out here.”
Bus driver: “No you won’t. You’ll be dead and I’ll be jobless.”

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How not to pick up ladies

On the Route 52 Metrobus near the Columbia Heights Metrorail station:

Two teenage girls are talking about their hair.

One of them combs through her hair and an older man says, “You hair aight. Even if you was bald you aight.”

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Make a run for the Levant

Outside Shawarma Spot on 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan about 9:15 p.m.:

Woman 1: “Ooh look, they have shawarma!” (pronounced as “swore-ma”)
Woman 2: “What’s a swore-ma?”
Woman 1: “It’s like… a taco. But Arabic.”

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Who says romance is dead

At the crosswalk on 11th and L streets NW:

Girl on cell phone: “Oh my god! What the hell? He owes you big time! (pause) I mean, it’s either a plane ticket or diamonds. Just sayin.'”

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At least he’s interested?

On a crowded Metrorail car between Pentagon and L’Enfant Plaza, about 5:15 p.m.:

Jacob, age 5, to a random woman very loudly: “ARE YOU JEWISH?”
Entire car cracks up.
Jacob’s mom: “Jacob, the polite thing to say to people upon meeting is ‘Hi.'”

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And finally, tooting our own horn. See you in 2012.

At an office on the Hill few days ago:

Boss’s son calls: “I think we just had another earthquake.”
Boss clicks around on his computer, then says, “Nope, it’s not on DCist, so it didn’t happen.”