Photo by btjonesRedskins fans are an unusual bunch. The ‘Skins will sign some outlandish free agent (i.e. Deion Sanders) and then everyone thinks they’re going to the Super Bowl. Or they’ll have a bunch of random, mediocre at best quarterbacks and everyone thinks they’re going to the Super Bowl. They’ll get a new coach and everyone thinks they’re going to the Super Bowl. They win a game or two (like over a coach-less Saints team) and then they’re going to the Super Bowl. Then when they don’t win, everybody gets really sad.
That’s not to make fun of the fans, as there’s a lot to like with the team, but it’s rare to see a reasonable fan early in the season. They’re kind of like Bigfoot.
Overheard of the Week
A man in a Redskins jersey is selling RGIII hats at a bus stop, and doing quite well:
A woman, late 50s, walks up and asks, “You got any hats that just say ‘Redskins’ on it? I wanna be prepared for the next quarterback after they lose a couple games.”
After the jump, rhetorical questions, maps, food, and the G word.
Overheard in D.C. is only funny because you hear stuff and send it in. Make sure you send the best overheard gems our way. Please include who, where, and in what context, please!
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Maybe you shouldn’t answer that
In the courtyard outside the Reagan Building, a (mostly) government office building near Federal Triangle:
Two federal employees (both men, in their 50s; wearing bland office clothes & badges mostly visible. Agency unknown) were having a smoke break during a weekday afternoon
on the benches in the courtyard. One was sitting, the other was pacing in front of him. Neither was talking, until the pacing one stopped and said very loudly, “Well, then what was I doing for five years in southeast Asia?”
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Are there other options?
Two 20-something-ish women walking down U st NW near 17th:
Girl 1, heard before going out of earshot: “…an STD, or something with his penis…”
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So much depends on a box of cereal
Safeway at 5th and L on Wednesday afternoon:
Young man in his mid 20’s is shopping for groceries with a woman who is probably his mother.
He is frowning, obviously disgusted with the price of a small box of cereal he is holding.
His mother looks at him and says, “She’s not worth it, is she?”
Replacing the box on the shelf, he says thoughtfully, “No… No, she’s not.”
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You know, wooden shoes, weed…
At Amsterdam Falafel:
A non-American tourist approached the counter and the following exchange took place:
Tourist: “What’s Dutch mayo?”
Employee: “It’s mayo.” (short pause) “Made the Dutch way.”
Tourist: “Oh.”
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Well, it’s an argument
In an apartment building:
A woman in her 60’s chatting with the apartment manager: “I heard the Dems — Obama and Clinton — say that nobody can fix the budget. What about that genius? You know, he was a genius; He was famous! um…Einstein! I bet he could fix the budget. Are Democrats saying that Einstein wasn’t a genius? That’s why I’m voting for Ryan, he’s a genius.”
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This is why you should study geography rather than use iOS 6
On the Georgetown campus:
One confident-sounding Georgetown freshman to another freshman while entering Healy Hall: “This is the building that looks most like Harry Potter. You can see the clock tower from across the river in Maryland.”
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What’s worse — Jersey Shore or One Direction?
At a cash register in a store:
A father is in line with his pre-teen daughter and younger son. Someone says something about a baby.
Pre-teen girl: “Snooki has a baby.”
Dad: (pause, slightly concerned voice) “Uh, how do you know who Snooki is?”
Pre-teen girl: “Dad, there are reasons which you do not need to know about.”
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Smells like pot kettle black?
Walking through the crowd at the H Street Festival:
20-something white girl walking against the crowd talking on her phone with a scowl: “yea… It smells like gentrification here.”
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And finally: not a good sign
At Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday night. Two mid-20s girls walk by:
Girl 1: “So anyway, I didn’t hear from him for like a week, but then he offered to buy me a new mattress.”
Girl 2: (nods)
