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There’s a lot of stereotypes about D.C., some true, some not. But if anybody from elsewhere ever asks you what D.C. is like, you can just relay this exchange.
Overheard of the Week
Two early-30s suits on Friday night, walking along Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol South Metro:
Suit 1: “She’s mega hot though.”
Suit 2: “Of course. If I were not engaged to be married, I would definitely be thinking about the conflict of interest involved in fucking her.”
After the jump, drugs, sexy, and culinary history.
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You make it sound so awesome
Saturday at 6 p.m. outside the Georgetown Starbucks:
One person holds the door open for another and asks: “Didja ever huff paint? That’s what I miss about being a drug addict: heroin and huffing paint.”
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That, and Third Eye Blind
3 women in their 30s at the D.C. United Game:
Woman 1: “I think I’m going to go on vacation and have a fling while I’m still single.”
Woman 2: “Be careful you might come back with crabs.”
Woman 3: “Do people our age even get crabs?”
Woman 1: “Hmmm. I feel like was a college thing.”
Woman 2: “Seriously. Getting crabs is so late 90s.”
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It’s well known that the Anasazi first developed the deep fryer
Tuesday at lunchtime in the National Museum of the American Indian cafeteria:
A family of four sits down to eat. The dad points to a plate of chicken fingers and fries and says to his son, “Come here! Come and eat your lunch; the Indians ate this.”
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There’s a lot of things wrong with this
Walking down 17th to the CVS on P Street:
Mother pushing a dual child stroller down 17th St. talking on her cell in front of now-gone Java Green: “Aren’t tricks supposed to leave in the morning, isn’t that what it’s all about?”
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Dept. of Health and Human Sexiness!
In a large hallway at the Department of Health and Human Services:
Middle aged man in a suit yells down the empty hall to another man in a suit- “I’m gonna go sit in Bob’s lap till he finishes that!”
(names changed)
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And finally, a positive one. Sometimes you have to hear it a lot to be able to take a step back
Near the White House:
Two police officers are leaning against a car keeping pro-Israel and anti-Israel protesters apart.
Officer 1:”If you take out the countries name and close your eyes their arguments sound the same.”
Officer 2 *nodding*: “White House duty: an education in how silly our anger against each other is.”
