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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.

They’re learning young.

A group of about eight 6- or 7-year olds and three adults are passing Pinstripes in Georgetown:

One child loudly to the group: “There’s another one of those Happy Hours!”

After the jump, politics, Metro train operators, and foodies.

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Right

In an Uber Pool on a Saturday night, Ariana Grande on the radio:

Dude: “OMG, don’t you LOVE Ariana Grande?”
Uber driver (sarcastically): “She’s the voice of your generation.”
Dude: “I saw her in concert recently and I died, because I’m alive, I died.”

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Fair enough

Walking to the L’Enfant food court under the HUD building on Friday at noon:

Two women were walking together towards the food court, both were around 40ish and were probably feds/contractors dressed for causal Friday.

Woman 1: “It’s like all of my conversations: I’m just like ‘I hate underwear!'”
Other woman laughs then first woman repeats (just as loudly) “I hate underwear!”

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Like we’ll be underwater soon

Walking into the America Rising building, a Democratic PAC, on Wilson Blvd in Rosslyn:

Two thirty-something guys are walking and talking.

Guy 1: “How do you like this [expletive] cold?”
Guy 2: “I blame the liberals!”
Guy 1 (laughs)
Guy 2 says something muffled about new polling and global warming, then: “How does ‘atmospheric reconfiguration’ sound?”

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Who doesn’t love the War of 1812

Family of tourists outside White House:

Dad explains to mom and kids: “It was either the White House or Capitol that was burned.”

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Don’t tell Mike Pence

Tuesday about 5pm, at Irish Whiskey:

Barback, propping himself up from laying on the bar when an attractive woman he knew took the barstool near him: “Christian Mingle got some bad bitches.”

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Try the hot dog cart?

At 22nd and I around lunchtime on Friday:

Two ladies, retirement age, are walking.

Lady 1: “I don’t want salad, I don’t want Mediterranean, I just want American food. I don’t want hipster food, and I don’t want to walk.”
Lady 2: “…”

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Put that in your LinkedIn

In Franklin Park on a Monday lunch break:

Two women are sitting on a bench, enjoying their lunch.

One woman to the other: “I couldn’t have done it by myself, I have to thank my coworkers for being so incompetent for my promotion.”

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A tricky one

At a deli in Rockville:

Customer: “What kind of meat is in the cheesesteak? I’ve never had one. Is it like a chicken cheesesteak?”

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This would make a good alias

At the Smithsonian:

A group of kids have a list of things to find for a school project. One little boy keeps saying he’s looking for Amelia Airfart’s plane.

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Good advice

On the Orange line in the direction of Vienna:

Train operator: “Next station stop Federal Triangle. Also when you’re leaving, please don’t forget your loved ones. If you get on with a husband and three children please get off with a husband and three children.”

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A bold take

In Chinatown:

20-something guy on the phone walking: “It is true. I like extra ranch.”

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