Photo by Chris McDaniel

It must be rough driving a train. Going back and forth on the same route, no customers ever responding to you, late nights in dark tunnels. It really must drag on you.

Overheard of the Week

On a Red Line train at Woodley Park going downtown during the morning rush:

Train operator over the intercom: “Sometimes it feels like I’m the only train out there… next stop, Dupont Circle, doors opening on the right side.”

After the jump, funny kids, cool dads, and working on the Hill.

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Good times

At a busy corner outside the Farragut North Metro:

A professional female (late 20s) is talking quietly on her cell phone.

All of sudden she says very loudly into her phone for all passersby to hear: “BECAUSE I HAVEN’T HAD SEX IN FOUR MONTHS!”

She then looks around and sees others staring and runs down K Street.

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I want to party with this kid

Sunday morning near Barracks Row:

A mother is walking with her three young children. The middle child, a boy around seven years old, points to a bottle on the ground and excitedly says: “Oooooo, a Heineken! And it’s almost full!”

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AWESOME DAD ALERT

At the National Zoo near the outdoor ape enclosure:

A boy, maybe six or seven, points to the enclosure and asks his dad, “What’s that?”
Dad: “That’s where they put the children who misbehave.”

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A new term is invented?

The Passenger, after midnight:

A woman is out for her birthday with friends.

Birthday girl: “You’re right. I’m 31 now, like a MILF without a child.”
Male friend: “…so you’re just an ILF?”

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At least in this case idiots won’t put an apostrophe in Adams

A band is playing at 18th Street and Columbia Road NW:

Lead singer: “Thanks to the uh, Morgan… Pier? Piers Morgan Revitalization Program.” (Crowd groans.)

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FINALLY

On the escalator at Ballston on a Thursday evening:

Two middle-aged men are lugging around suitcases.

One to the other: “Ah, I do see a pattern here. The right is for standing, the left is for running.”

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We’re doomed.

At the Safeway on New York Avenue NW:

Three women in their early 20s are standing in the express lane with a grocery cart full of food. One grabs a celebrity gossip magazine.

Woman No. 1: “One Direction is the new Beatles.”
Woman No. 2: “Really?”
Woman No. 1: “Yes, really. There are statistics on this.”

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The Baudelaire happy hour got four stars on Yelp

On the rooftop of DC9, which is packed:

Two guys get their drinks. One says to the other, “Ok, let’s go talk about poetry.”

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And finally: Zing!

At Chinatown Coffee Shop:

A guy and a girl are standing in line to order coffee.

Girl: “So what do you do?”
Guy: “I work on the Hill.”
Girl: (pause) “Oh sorry, I didn’t mean what do you do for money. I meant what do you do to make the world better?”