Photo by Ted Eytan
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.
Another trip around the sun, 2016 is finally almost done, thankfully. This Metro train operator has the right idea.
Overheard of the Week
On Yellow Line southbound pulling into Huntington on the Wednesday before Christmas:
The train operator gives the usual spiel about not leaving things behind, but then keeps going into a long farewell and talking about the upcoming holidays and more for half a minute.
Finally: “Don’t let nobody take your joy away.”
From the submitter: “2016 has been crappy for a lot of people. I can think of things that could have gone better. I’ve told a few people what the operator said. They think, as do I, that what the train operator said was pretty good.”
After the jump, tourists, bros, tourist bros and something nice. See you in 2017.
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Totally
Christmas Day, on 15th Street next to the IRS building:
Two touristy bros are talking.
Bro 1: “So wait, this isn’t where they print the money?”
Bro 2: “No man, that’s the U.S. Mint.”
Bro 1: “Oh. But like it’s pretty obvious these guys are loaded, too.”
Bro 2: (Nods in agreement)
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You seem surprised
Two couples are at brunch in NOMA:
Guy 1: “Did I ever tell you the first time I went to an Olive Garden?”
Guy 2: “No how was it?”
Guy 1: “I knew it would be bad but not Balducci’s bad. They didn’t even know what al dente was!”
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Maybe looking for a sweater for the animals?
In Columbia Heights:
One 20-something woman to another: “Let’s just say that her dad is the CEO of the Columbus Zoo and she got busted for shoplifting at Sears. She’s got those types of problems.”
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Dogs like presents, too
At a small gathering at a house in Columbia Heights:
A current resident to a future resident: “In Georgetown, I once saw a woman buy a $6 chorizo frittata and feed it to her dog.”
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Truer words…
Around 1pm on a Sunday afternoon in Clarendon:
Two women are walking past patios of boozy restaurant brunches: “You know why I love day drinking? You can still go home and watch TV at night.”
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Aww
At the National Gallery of Art:
A group of three or four teenage girls were walking away from a security guard who had just said something they thought was funny.
One says to the other: “He’s, like, awesome, with a capital A, and, like, exclamation marks behind it!”
