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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.
Is brunch the most popular meal in D.C. these days? Is it even considered a meal anymore, or more of an event? Or is brunch over?
Overheard of the Week
One weekend day on M Street.
A stumbling woman in her mid-20’s wailing: “I BRUNCHED TOO HARD!”
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Coming up: tourists, Marines, holidays, and history.
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Which came first?
At Target, where a young couple walking with their three-year-old daughter past the Elf on the Shelf display.
Mom: “Oh, look, should we get them an Elf on the Shelf?”
Dad: “What is Elf on the Shelf?
Mom: “It’s like Mensch on a Bench for…” (pauses, switches to a stage whisper) “…CHRISTIANS.”
Little girl: shakes head.
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History!
In the grand foyer of the Kennedy Center.
A 20-something woman is giving instructions at the bust of John F. Kennedy: “Just tell her to meet us at the face…the big ugly face.”
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Beltway bandits
In a suburban office park in Ballston filled with former govvies, discussing the elevators outside of Tyson’s Corner Metro Station.
“You don’t want to be in those elevators—they’re so old and cranky, but they’re bursting with those bright-eyed young Palantir types. They seem to be everywhere.”
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Marriage proposal? Vegetarian party?
Last Saturday, two chicly dressed women in their late 20s/early 30s walking in Georgetown.
Woman 1: “I mean, why at a steakhouse? That’s so staid.”
Woman 2: “I know! And I don’t eat meat. Well, I guess I would at a steakhouse.”
Woman 1: “Yeah, me too. But why a steakhouse on a SATURDAY?! In the middle of the week, okay, but on a Saturday?”
Woman 2: “True.”
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#Edgy
Between Judiciary Square and Chinatown.
An early- to mid-20s woman is walking briskly and talking loudly on her phone: “Oh hey, no, I’m just hoofing it to happy hour…[short pause]…oh yeah, I got my nose pierced today so my rebellion is complete.”
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Surprisingly accurate
At happy hour in Chinatown.
Millenial man to 40-something woman: “Tinder is like Candy Crush, but with humans.”
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Thanks, Obama
Sunday on the Mall between the National Gallery and Air and Space.
A woman and her teenage daughter (probably about 15 years old) are walking. The girl suddenly stopped and looked at the Capitol Building.
Girl: “What is that?”
Mom: “That’s the Capitol Building.”
Girl: “What’s wrong with it?”
Mom: “I don’t know, maybe they’re painting it.”
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Familial Jealousy
Near Dupont Circle.
Woman to her coworkers: “I was the favorite child but then my brother joined the Marines and everyone is OBSESSED with him.”
