Photo by number7cloudThe big day has come and gone, and while the special Valentine’s Overheard in D.C. yesterday sums the day up nicely, some folks still had more Valentine-y things to say.
Overheard of the Week
At the Waterfront Safeway on the Monday before Valentine’s Day:
Customer: “How many days will these tulips last?”
Floral Shop Employee: “Until they bloom and then die.”
After the jump, more non-romance, bad-sounding conversations, and more.
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Where do these people work?
Around 6:30 PM on Valentine’s Day at the bus stop at 12th and Pennsylvania NW:
Two gentleman in their 40’s or 50’s are chatting, and one is telling the other a story about work: “He was caught having sex on his desk — I don’t know if it was with an intern or not.”
Later on in the conversation, the same man says — “The office is crazy… people beating one another up with staplers, people having sex on desks. Just crazy.”
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Don’t mess with Feds
During the afternoon commute from the Navy Yard on a northbound Green line train:
A mixed group of federal employees gets on the train, continuing the conversation about how hard it is to find inexpensive ammunition these days, what with everyone buying out the stores’ supplies these days, etc.
The nicely-dressed woman in the group says “it wouldn’t be a problem if you idiots packed your own damn ammo.”
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Yes, this seems perfectly reasonable
In Dupont Circle:
Three 20-something guys and walking, engaged in an earnest conversation: “…so I looked straight back and her and said ‘Shut up bitch, and get back in the trunk.'”
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Fashion critics are everywhere
Sitting on an Orange line train on the way to work downtown:
An early 30s-ish white male on the train is wearing a Helly Hansen sailing jacket.
Teenage girl behind him: “I never seen a white boy wearing no Helly Hansen before!”
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Always a good plan
In Nooshi, the sushi bar in Farragut Square:
Two twenty-something females, talking about insurance, when, suddenly…
Girl 1: “This is too grown up. Let’s talk about penises.”
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Harsh kid
Friday night, a Mom is picking up her child from a preschool in Bethesda:
The child is tell her about things he likes.
Child: “I like you mommy, but not daddy. Daddy has a boo-boo.”
Mom, with a quizzical laugh: “No, you should still like daddy, even if he has a boo-boo!”
Child: “No, I don’t like daddy because he has a boo-boo!”
Mom: “It’s not his fault he has a boo-boo, you should still like him.”
