Photo by Vince Young.
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.
D.C. is a highly educated city: lots of advanced degrees and people from good schools. But that doesn’t mean you have to be brilliant to be into politics.
Overheard of the Week
Men’s room at the DC Young Republicans Christmas party:
Drunk Bro 1: “I try to be festive 363 days a year.”
Drunk Bro 2: “What about the other 5?”
After the jump, food writers, the White House, and interns.
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Give that man a James Beard award
At El Centro:
Waitress sets food down for three mid-twenties geeky looking guys.
First guy, looking incredulously at his fajitas: “This looks amazing … I just want to chest bump someone.”
Friends nod in agreement.
Guy number two a few minutes later: “If Chipotle had a hot sister, this would be it.”
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You might want to consider looking for a new job
Friday evening near Farragut Square:
Early 20’s man, commiserating to a group of (presumed) coworkers: “This is like the third week in a row I’ve been called a little bitch at work”
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He sure is
On a run past the Capitol towards the Mall:
Woman in her 60s to her husband as they admire the Capitol: “Isn’t the White House so beautiful, dear! Obama is so lucky. The dome even shimmers in the night!”
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I would be pretty happy with this
In the Columbia Heights Marshalls:
A man and woman, both in their 30s, are doing holiday shopping.
Man: “Should we get a whiskey lovers basket?”
Woman: “For who? You?”
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Interns: always a good source of dumb things
Two Capitol Hill interns chatting on the Orange Line this morning:
Guy 1: “D-Sizzle is, like, two things. People use it to refer to Deloitte, and also D.C.”
Guy 2: “So people call D.C. D-Sizzle?”
Guy 1: “I do.”
Guy 2: “Does anybody else call it that?”
Guy 1: “…um, no.”
The same guys a little later.
Guy 1: “Yeah, well, I’ve been to Vienna, Austria, but never Vienna, Virginia… I guess that one’s closer.” (guffaws awkwardly)
Guy 2: “I’ve never been to Austria.”
Guy 1: “It’s cool. I tried to, like, Instagram it all, but there’s a lot of stuff there.”
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Hopefully not the Library of Congress
At a silent auction in a government building:
One of the auction items is a Joseph Heller book.
The sheet describing it says “Writer of Catcher in the Rye.”
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The new style
In a Capitol Hill consignment shop:
Two young women are in a Capitol Hill consignment shop. One is trying on a clingy, nylon dress. She emerges from the dressing room and asks “Is it too Hooterific?”
Discussion ensues as to its relative merits and suitability for the office. The shopkeeper interjects that it’s a $2,000 designer dress.
Friend: “Just buy it. You’ll look like a rich bitch.”
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And finally: god help us all
Tourist family near the Portrait Gallery:
Tourist kid: “These bricks are all loose!”
Tourist mom: “President Trump will fix that when he gets here.”
