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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.
Politics and dating is often fraught, but a certain presidential candidate really seems to bring it out.
Overheard of the Week
On the Red line:
A couple of 30-something guys are in work attire, one of whom appears to have just been broken up with by a woman.
Guy 1: “She said we’re just going in different directions.”
Guy 2: “Well, duh, I would hope so! I’ve seen many mixed-party relationships work, that’s fine. But man… she supports Trump.”
Guy 1: “I can get over that. I think I love her. And she’s beautiful.”
Guy 2 in a disgusted tone: “Dude, that says more about you than about her! You should be embarrassed! Move on!”
After the jump, tourists, America, fireworks and more.
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Real good arm on that guy
At Nationals Park in one of the 300 sections:
Two late 30-something women are chatting
Woman 1: “Who’s up next?”
Woman 2: “Hamilton.”
Woman 1: “Who?”
Woman 2: “Hamilton, like Alexander Hamilton, you know, the inventor of the telephone.”
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Indeed
At the CVS near the Georgia Avenue/Petworth Metro station on Thursday evening:
A group of about five 20-somethings are shopping in the medication aisle. One of the women has an armful of items and is talking to one of the men with her.
Woman: “Give me that Zyrtec, too.”
Man: “Why you need that?!”
Woman: “I’m about to get in some freaky shit tonight!”
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Like, in a good way?
At Crumbs and Whiskers cat cafe in Georgetown on a Sunday:
Teenage girl comes outside to wait in line after briefly checking in inside. She shrieks excitedly to her dad: “OMG there are so many cats in there it makes me want to throw up!”
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Everybody has an opinion about Metro
On the Red Line at Gallery Place:
Six year-old boy to his parents, coming back from the Nationals game: “Now that I’ve been on the new train, I hate the old train.”
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Can never go wrong with a Jurassic Park reference
The Air and Space museum’s gift shop is packed during the Night at the Museum event:
A man is on the phone trying to find someone: “Is it like Jeff Goldblum, follow the pipes and I’ll find you?”
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Um, impressive?
While having dinner on U Street:
Some young people, thinking they knew more than their years and experience would allow, were having a heated debate on public school education.
“I have friends who used to work for Boehner so I know what I’m talking about.”
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Beware of child
Waiting for the light to change at 14th and Pennsylvania in the late afternoon:
A tourist family walks up to a local.
Mom: “Oohh, we should go the aquarium.”
Teenage daughter: “Maybe tomorrow, I’m hungry and just want to go get some food.”
Mom to local: “Excuse me, where is the aquarium?”
Local: “Um, actually, it closed 2 or 3 years ago. The closest aquarium to here is in Baltimore.”
Mom: “But the sign says the aquarium is just down the street!”
Local: “Yeah, they just haven’t changed that sign. Again, it’s not there anymore. I went to the old one, you’re not missing much.”
Daughter: “Thank god… can we go find something to eat before I go full zombie on you?”
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Make America pay attention again
Boarding plane at DCA:
A flight attendant tries to get the attention of a twenty-something with a blue Trump fishing cap and an American flag tank top.
Flight attendant: “Sir, wearing the blue fishing cap and stars on your shirt, can you please wait there?”
Man looks around repeatedly but doesn’t realize she is speaking to him.
Flight attendant: “You with the stars on your shirt…”
After two more attempts, the passenger realizes that she is trying to get his attention.
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Kind of an existential question?
At jumbo slice in Adams Morgan, late Monday night:
Woman at the counter to worker: “Like, just how jumbo is it?”
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BUT WHAT IF IT IS?
On the Circulator bus Friday afternoon going from Foggy Bottom to Union Station:
Late 20s woman on the phone talking to her father, “No, Dad, your GPS is not giving your phone number out to people on the street.”
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So, it works well?
After the fireworks on the 4th, walking from the Mall to the Metro:
Woman: “That was an Obamacare firework show.”
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Agreed
Graffiti seen on a wall outside the Rhode Island Avenue Metro stop:
“Don’t let hipsters squash your game.”
