Photo by techne

Tourist season may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still here, and still being themselves. It often seems like their brains turn off as soon as they enter the city and they become oblivious of everything. Just use your common sense, people.

Overheard of the Week

At the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro:

A family of (suspected) tourists exits the train onto platform and stalls near the escalator, disrupting the flow of morning rush hour traffic.

Dad: “…do we just go up?”

After the jump, weird dudes, kids and booty calls.

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Amazing that this almost worked

At last Saturday’s Deathfix show at IOTA:

Girl 1: “That guy just asked me if I wanted to fuck.”
Girl 2: “Ewww! Like where, in the bathroom?”
Girl 1: “I don’t know, but I kinda wanted to.”

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Where history comes alive, and shoots at you

At Ford’s Theatre. A large school group is there:

A totally serious-looking 13-year-old girl to an upset-looking one: “You don’t have to worry about being assassinated!”

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Idiot or liar? You be the judge

Friday night on H Street NE:

Guy on cell phone: “I’m waaay over across town in Dupont right now.”

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Pretty clearly just idiot in this case

On the street in Foggy Bottom, near Elephant and Castle:

Young guy to young girl: “Yeah, this area is Logan Circle, that’s where they have all the dive bars and shit.”

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Normally this would be funny. After game 5, it’s only sad.

At Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro last Thursday afternoon before game 4:

The platform is packed with baseball fans waiting for a Green Line train. A Yellow Line train arrives.

As the door opens, a man says loudly, “St. Louis fans, this is your train to the ballpark.”

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What, does he own a Concorde?

In Nellie’s during the top of the 8th of Game 5:

One 20-something man to another: “Transatlantic booty calls are the best.”

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He’s running on a pro-cootie campaign

At the Newseum on Smithsonian Magazine Free Museum Day:

Two ‘tween kids are playing with an interactive “Create a Photo-Op” exhibit where you can select from several backgrounds and the heads, torsos, and legs of several characters. The kids turn the pieces to display a middle-aged white man with neatly-trimmed hair and a suit.

Kid #1: “Who is that?”
Kid #2: “I think it’s like a reporter or something.”
Kid #2 goes over to the display sign, reads it, and runs back.
Kid #2: “Eww! It’s Mitt Romney!”

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Romance is in the air

In Chinatown on a Friday night around 8:30 or so:

A male and female, maybe around college age, are clearly on a date.

Male: “Yo, just be straight… so is like your family well off or no?”

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And finally, kids are dumb as hell sometimes

At the Corn Maze in The Plains, Virginia:

Teen girl: “Wait… this is all, like… real corn?”
Teen boy: “Yes. Um, that’s why it’s called a ‘corn maze.'”