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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—check out the archives here.
Yeah, every week now, bud.
Monday, around 5:45 p.m. in the Columbia Heights Metro:
20-something dude talking to another 20-something dude: “I feel like it’s going to be a long week for some reason.”
After the jump, youngsters, oldsters, technology, and drinks.
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Empathy!
On the Orange Line, westbound, on Wednesday night:
A group in their early 20s is chatting.
One woman, presumably 22 or 23 years old, complaining about celebrating her grandmother’s birthday: “It’s like, Nana, I know you’re turning 90, but turning 23 is pretty cool, too.”
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Yuh oh
At Le Pain Quotidien over lunch:
“Guess what happens when your kid figures out ‘Alexa, buy me a doll house‘?”
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At least they know one senator?
At Chef Geoff’s:
Two AU male students are discussing politics.
Student 1: “It was so great growing up in Massachusetts with two Kennedy brothers as our senators. You just don’t get that historical decadence any more.”
Student 2: “What do you mean two Kennedy brothers?”
Student 1: “Teddy and Edward Kennedy were my two senators growing up. They were amazing. Massachusetts clearly understood the need to keep JFK’s two brothers in the Senate for decades.”
Student 2: “Teddy and Edward Kennedy were the same person. John Kerry was your other senator.”
Student 1 pulls out his phone to check.
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Well, sort of…
Tuesday evening, about 5:45 p.m., waiting to cross Massachusetts Avenue at Scott Circle:
A mid-to-late 20s woman, dressed casually, is on her phone.
Woman: [seems to be repeating what her caller just said] “Right, take the 5th… I’ve heard of that before… take the 5th. The 5th Amendment, right? “
[pause]
Woman continues: “Wait, which one is the Fifth Amendment? Freedom of speech, right?”
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Rough
Outside the Dupont Circle Metro station at rush hour:
A young man in his 20s is talking to a Nature Conservancy canvasser.
Canvasser: [unintelligible, presumably asking for a donation]
Young man who has stopped: “No, I swear, I make $27,000 a year AND live in the city.”
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Are they softer?
Two professional men at the Old Ebbitt Grill bar:
Guy 1: “So I heard you got hit by a bus?? That sucks!!”
Guy 2: “Yeah. And it was a school bus. Not even a Metro bus.”
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This is actually pretty astute
On R Street NW:
Two millennials are walking. Maybe a couple, he has a neck tattoo and she has a half sleeve and cat-eye glasses.
Him: “You know, I don’t even think you like kombucha, you just like the IDEA of kombucha.”
Her: “You’re right. I just haven’t wanted to say it.”
