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Overheard of the Week
At Vermont and K Street, downtown:
Young blonde woman with two friends complaining about why no one calls her back: “I am, like, way overqualified for all the jobs that I’m applying to!”
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Seems legit
Leaving an Axios panel at about 7:30 p.m.:
One 20-something woman is aggravated and complaining to another: “I’m tired of being shamed because I want to go to bed at 8.”
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Hipster baby
A two-year old is playing with a toy school bus at a BBQ spot in the burbs:
Adult: “Do you know what that is?”
Child: “A schoolbus.”
Adult: “Do you know where it takes you.”
Child: “To the farmer’s market.”
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Game of Thrones? Trump Administration job tenures?
Outside the NoMa Harris Teeter at 7 p.m. on Tuesday:
A youngish person on the phone: “Everybody dies. Honestly.”
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Pretty good advice for Facebook actually
Mid-day on Tuesday on the 53 bus heading north:
Older woman talking to another passenger: “I just got my Facebook. I got my picture up there. Now I’m supposed to say something. Clean ya bathroom. Change ya underwear everyday. Treat people the way you want to be treated. That’s what I’mma say. I’m not trying to meet anybody.”
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Hmm
Sunday afternoon, near the Waterfront Metro, five blocks from the National Mall:
A male/female twenty-something couple is walking along the sidewalk. A band and food trucks are in the background.
Woman: “That’s why I don’t want to move to this neighborhood. There’s nothing to see.”
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Only in D.C.?
A man and woman see a vanity license plate that says IMFLYN:
Twentysomething woman: “You think that’s Michael Flynn in there?”
Twentysomething man (after a pause): “I think that’s supposed to be ‘I’m flyin.'”
Woman: “Oh, you’re probably right.”
Man: “You’ve been in D.C. too long.”
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That’s a name I haven’t heard in years
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Rosslyn office building:
Two mid-30s dudes are talking.
Guy 1: “Hey, you know that fat guy?”
Guy 2: “Who, Ken Bone?”
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Truth
Thursday night around 11 p.m. near Trusty’s in SE:
Some sort of kickball or other social sports league members are leaving the bar.
Team member: “It’s just so f**king basic. I need to get out of Arlington.”
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Agreed
At the H Street Festival, on the corner of H and 4th:
A man is trying to convince his wife of the doggie daycare nearby: “Look, honey, and it’s right next to a beer distributor, it’s perfect!”
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If I had a nickel
6 p.m. just south of Dupont Circle:
Young woman on cell phone: “Like a formal photo with the chickens.”
