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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, and check out the archives here.
There are things we all ask ourselves: Am I happy? What is right and wrong? And then there are the things that Whole Foods shoppers ask themselves.
Overhead of the Week
At the playground of a Brookland charter school:
Group of mommies sitting in a circle: “Would you rather eat all organic, non-local food or all non-organic, local food?”
After the jump, Metro problems, more DC questions, Uber and college kids.
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Outside Shaw’s Tavern on Saturday morning:
A man and three women are getting out of an Uber and going into Shaw’s Tavern:
Man: “You don’t really know Jimmy until you’ve brunched with Jimmy. Jimmy brunches earnestly.”
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See below
On the northbound Red Line train at Farragut North during the after-work rush hour:
People have crammed themselves into every train car, due to delays on the Red Line. After everyone has squeezed onto the train, the operator exclaims: “I see a shoulder, like a whole shoulder hanging out the door!”
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Feeling the Bern
Two young students in their early 20s with glasses and pullovers emptying the stands of Jon Stewart’s stand-up at George Washington University:
Student 1 (shrugging) : “God, people are dumb.”
Student 2 (emphatically nodding) : “Right?! The thing is, people just don’t understand what democratic socialism really is. That’s why Norway is kicking our ass.”
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Or only on tourists
On Saturday afternoon on the D.C.-bound orange line:
A large group of relatives get on the train.
Young relative: “Hurry up! The doors are going to close!!!”
Elder relative slowly getting on board: “I hope they don’t close on me!!!!”
Middle-aged relative: “Nah, it’s Saturday. They only do that Monday-Friday when you’re late to work.”
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More D.C. questions
In the Pentagon courtyard:
One middle aged man to another: “Is that a regulation coffee pot?”
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It’s turning into a movement
On a crowded Blue Line train that couldn’t even fit five tourists at the Arlington Cemetery stop on Tuesday, about 5:30 p.m.:
Middle-aged man with a deep voice from the back of the train car: “You know what Martin Luther King would have said? I have a dream, that one day Metro will buy more trains!”
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