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Welcome back to Overheard in D.C., DCist’s weekly column of funny, strange and poignant things that our readers and staff overhear and send in. We’ve been doing it since 2006, so check out the archives here.

The D.C. area is full of cool places — the National Mall, the Arboretum, Rock Creek Park, Great Falls — and lots of nice neighborhoods. But there are some places we haven’t been where we’d like to go.

Overheard of the Week

About ten young college students are walking east from the NoMa Metro station down M Street NE:

Student 1: “Yo! Where are we going, man?”
Student 2: “To the place where imagination sprouts.”

After the jump, buses, parties with babies, and healthy eating.

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Oh, X2

Rush hour on the X2 bus:

Woman in her late 30s: “I wear slippers with my pajamas with the feet. My husband says, ‘Why you doing that? I don’t want to get dirt in the bed.'”
Man in his late 50s: “I call that birth control.”

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Party time

A Saturday afternoon at Biergarten Haus on H Street NE:

A young couple at the bar is holding a very young baby.

Bartender: “I can tell this isn’t her first bar. She’s so calm.”
Mother: “Not her first bar. This isn’t even her first bar of the day.”

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Not exactly clear on the idea

Two teen girls chatting on the 70 bus toward Silver Spring:

Friend 1: “You hungry? “
Friend 2: “Yeah. Maybe pizza.”
Friend 1: “My mom’s got turkey sandwiches. I don’t want turkey.”
Friend 2: “I want chips, too. BBQ or something. Michelle Obama says you gotta eat healthy. That means healthy chips too.”

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Not where one might think, let’s hope

On the Blue Line:

Woman keeps eyeing the guy sitting in the seat over her shoulder as if she might know him. The guy is totally oblivious until the woman finally whips around and says: “You look familiar as shit. Where are you from?”

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Law and Order: D.C. Court

Wednesday morning outside D.C. Superior Court:

Woman standing in the rain: “I swear I did not touch that woman’s titty. Now my therapist — I wish I touched that woman’s titty! Somebody get me a therapist!”

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Hockey is violent

Section 107 of the Verizon Center during a Caps-Islanders game:

Woman in the middle of the section: “The goalie slapping his stick on the ice makes me want to punch him in the dick!”

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So much life experience

At 2 Birds 1 Stone on January 31 around midnight:

A girl in fishnets and a miniskirt is talking to guy in leather jacket: “So, after paying for his bail and attorney fees I said, ‘That’s it. I am 22. Time to move on!'”

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Been there

On the Orange/Blue Line near Capitol South:

Two teens around 14 or 15 are chatting to each other while a baby is loudly crying on the car.

The girl leans over to the boy and says quietly: “Can we please not have kids?”