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DCist is back, baby! If you could make it, we hope you enjoyed our big party at Blind Whino. If you overheard good stuff there or anywhere else, please send it our way: overheard@dcist.com!
And now that we’re back, we’re still reminded that sometimes the stereotypes about our fair city come true.
Overheard of the Week:
During the long walk to Terminal A at National Airport:
A 30-something couple is walking and whispering to each other.
“Did you see that guy with the messenger bag? He was wearing a polo shirt with a tie… so D.C.”
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This is the wrong decision
Outside Tacos El Chilango on V Street NW:
A woman walks up and looks at the menu in their window while she’s on the phone with someone.
To whoever is on the phone with her: “Ehh, I’m just gonna go to McDonalds.” She walks away.
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Mama Ayesha, part 1
Cutting through Walter Pierce Park in Adams Morgan:
A tourist family is looking at Maya Ayesha’s presidential mural.
Tourist 1: “Who is the woman in the middle?”
Tourist 2: “I think that’s Barbara Bush.”
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Wait, so they go to the bar, or…
On 7th Street in Penn Quarter:
Middle aged person to another: “He’s always posting fucking things like ‘ooh, here I am at a clam bar’. We get it. You do things. Big fucking deal.”
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Narrator: they’re not.
At Osteria Morini in Navy Yard:
Lady to another lady: “We were talking about whether Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts are easily confusable.”
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Hilarious joker or doofus? You be the judge
On a plane flying into DCA:
One high schooler to another: “The reason that the Washington Monument is two colors is because, when they opened the water gate, that’s how high the water rose on the monument.”
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Truly D.C.
On a Northern Virginia patio:
“The only sure things in life are death, taxes, and grant proposals.”
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Mama Ayesha, part 2
Outside Mama Ayesha’s:
Passerby looking at the mural: “Is that Rosa Parks?”
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In which DCist’s Pablo Maurer makes Overheard and subsequently gets burned
At Ivy and Coney:
A group of guys are hanging out. A young lady walks in.
Lady: “Is this a book club?”
Pablo: “We’re soccer journalists.”
Lady: “They have those in this country?”
