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Those wacky millenials are all over the news, for either being terrible or great, lazy or hard-working. Their habits are different than generations before them (shocking, we know) and they have some different ideas about dating and romance. And sometimes they make wise decisions.
Overheard of the Week
On the Green Line on the way to the Nats-Mets game:
A young 20-something woman to a male friend: “I don’t know you well enough to come over to your apartment to watch a movie on your floor because you don’t have a sofa yet.”
After the jump, food, D.C. famous people, and a little local history.
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When I was a boy in South Africa…
Around 8th and H Streets NW at lunchtime:
Girl 1: “So I was like ‘What, were you the voice of Mervis Diamonds or something?'”
Girl 2: “And?”
Girl 1: “And then he Facebooked me.”
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#dcproblems
In the Columbia Heights Metro station at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday:
20-something woman into her cellphone: “I don’t WANT to go to a museum that isn’t free!”
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That tells you all you need to know?
In the National Zoo:
A group of college-age people are walking around.
Boy 1: “I know a Dave from my class.”
Girl 1: “Really? What does he look like?”
Boy 1: “He’s from Buffalo.”
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Maybe try the 15 other food options within a block
Outside the Subway restaurant in Columbia Heights, which is closed for expansion:
DCUSA security guard: “What the fuck, goddammit, now where am I going to get my tuna?”
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History lesson
In the elevator of an office building in Metro Center:
Two men, one an older individual (mid-50s) and the second the younger (late-20s) enter the elevator in mid-conversation.:
Older man: “…I would drive in at 6:30 in the morning, and I would turn on 13th and L. The prostitutes would still be out…”
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You’re almost there
While browsing the gemstone section at the Natural History Museum:
Two 20-something tourists are looking at the diamond necklace that Napoleon gave his second wife.
Guy to girl: “What was Napoleon’s first name? Bonaparte?”
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A fair description of driving in D.C.
In traffic on 14th St NW at 11:00 p.m. on Friday:
A 20-something woman’s voice emerges from the back window of a cab: “You can never tell who’s honking or why.”
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This sounds pretty cool to us
Around 6 p.m. Tuesday on the Red Line near Farragut North:
A group of 20-something tourists, two guys two girls, are chatting.
One of the guys: “I really need to get a haircut. I’m starting to look like Anakin Skywalker’s gross Jedi uncle.”
Other guy: “Or one of the Ewoks.”
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Koala tusk exports are really booming lately
Friday morning, walking past the Australian Embassy:
A group of Australian college-age students is walking up to the Australian Embassy.
Guy 1: “We have this whole building!? We have this whole fucking building!?”
Guy 2: “Yes, because we are rich and we can.”
