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Maybe everybody is on edge because of the hurricane, but it seems like everybody is a little wacky this week.

Overheard of the Week

On a crowded bus going down 14th Street:

A young woman gets on the bus and is standing holding her baby in her arms.

A man standing next to her yells at the people sitting down: “Get your bitch ass up, this lady has a baby!, Get your motherfuckin’ ass up this lady has a baby!”

People get up, lady with baby sits down.

“There you go, ma’am.”

After the jump, bizarre romance, shopping, and complaints.

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Here is why there are terrible lines whenever bad weather happens

Before the storm at Harris Teeter:

Two young men are shopping together. One stops in bewilderment at the beverage aisle and says to the other: “We are like the worst grocery shoppers EVER, yo, I don’t even know what we bought.”

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Why didn’t we think of this earlier

Tuesday, about 2pm; on 14th St. NW in Columbia Heights:

Young woman, about 24, is on her cell phone: “I just don’t, like, get it. Why don’t the homeless all just go to, like, San Diego?”
*pause*
“Well, it’s not like they have anything to do here!”

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Someone is listening to too much Divinyls

On a westbound Orange line train between Rosslyn and Clarendon on a Thursday evening:

A couple in their upper 40’s and a little drunk and talking and laughing loudly.

Guy: “I have to admit — I think about you when I touch myself. (pause) Mostly when I wash my hair, but, yeah.”

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The new line coming to Ikea

In an office building downtown:

A group of women are chatting about shopping on Black Friday.

One says to the group: “I want to get my baby a businessperson’s kitchen because that’s the theme of her room.”

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Hello pot, meet kettle

Sunday, around 10am in front of the Harris Teeter on Kalorama Rd:

White guy, mid-30s, very LL Bean-style clothing, shouting into his phone: “It’s all these fucking white people who have moved into the city.”

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And finally, true romance in bloom

Near the Fairgrounds in SW (in front of the baseball stadium) after a beer event ended:

Women in her twenties licks the back of a bus stop window repeatedly while standing next to a guy she was just making out with.

She says to someone else: “I am trying to make myself vomit so that I can puke on him and he will stop wanting to see my vagina. I keep telling him that he doesn’t want to hit this shit, but he won’t listen.”