Photo by Andy Jones.

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Sometimes kids don’t get what’s going on, or say ridiculous and silly stuff. But sometimes they can really boil it down and make a good point.

Overheard of the Week

On the Red Line.

Little girl: “Mommy, we’re not allowed to be in here. It says no animals!”

After the jump, bros, tourists, and relationship problems.

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Yup

Waiting for a Circulator bus in Georgetown, nighttime.

Three late-20s, early-30s professionals are talking.

Man: “It’s hard to be in a committed relationship during the summer because all the girls wear short dresses!”

He sees bystanders kind of listening and goes: “Now it’s going to end up on Overheard in D.C. … Wait it doesn’t sound that pervy, does it?”

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Clearly they want the opposite

Lunchtime on Thursday, 17th Street, north of Farragut Square:

Thirty-ish year-old businessman on a cell phone: “…relationships. Caring, steadfast. It’s like most women want a male best friend, not a boyfriend.”

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People are excited for the streetcar

On H Street NE when the streetcars were arriving:

A DDOT employee attempts to alert a pedestrian that he’s in the path of one: “Sir. … Sir, a train is coming.”

The pedestrian looks at the employee, looks at the now stopped streetcar and plants himself: “No. Fuck you, train. Fuck YOU!”

The man proceeds to continue swearing and has a fight with a streetcar full of training staff.

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Thanks, Obama!

Friday afternoon along Connecticut Avenue near Farragut Square:

Young 20-something woman with what sounds like a Mexican accent: “It’s weird seeing all these government people in black Escalades. Where I’m from, they always belong to narcotraffickers.”

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D.C. sports fans, to a tee

Outside Nationals Park:

Two guys heading to the Park for a game.

Guy asks the other: “Are baseball games as noisy as football games?”
Friend doesn’t answer.
Guy: “‘Cause football games are so loud.”

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The Smithsonian Piercing Pagoda is beautiful

On the National Mall:

Tourist on the phone: “No, I’m not at the mall. I’m at the Mall of America.”

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That’s some strategy

At a friendly dinner in Glover Park:

Person 1: “See, you’re the problem. You’re just encouraging [homeless people] to stay there by giving them a dollar.”

Person 2: “No no, ’cause I don’t do it in my own neighborhood.”

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That would be pretty cool

Saturday afternoon at the National Zoo near the big cats exhibit:

Twenty-something in an Atlanta Braves hat to his ladyfriend of similar age after seeing a lion with a dark mane: “I thought the lion was wearing a gorilla.”

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Sometimes drunk interns are 100 percent right

On an escalator at the Van Ness Metro station, 10:30 p.m. Friday:

Girl, slurring her words: “I have a moral obligation! “
Guy: “There wasn’t even anyone walking up behind me!”
Girl: “I have a moral obligation! If I’m going to get mad at the tourists, I have to get mad at the locals!”
Guy: “You have to take into account the facts on the ground.”
Girl: “IT’S A MORAL OBLIGATION!”