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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.
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Summer in D.C. is rough: it’s very hot, it’s extremely humid, there are bugs… but maybe there are some creative solutions.
Overheard of the Week
Outside the Manhattan Laundry building on Florida Avenue NW:
A group of twenty-something women walk out of a fitness class.
Woman: “I’m just gonna use this bug spray to cover the sweat smell.”
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Wrong
In Dupont outside the Z-Burger:
A gaggle of young adults mingle outside.
Young woman: “So, does D.C. have an airport?”
Man, authoritatively: “There’s three, Dulles is the best of them.”
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#millenials
At Kapnos on 14th, a group of six young people are gathered for brunch:
Woman 1: (as food is brought out) “Ohhh is that a balsamic reduction!?”
Guy 1: “I’ve been really into rosé spritzers lately — it’s both hydrating and intoxicating at the same time!”
Guy 2: “I started looking at condos recently and it’s not making me feel great about myself.”
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Also that movie with Nic Cage
Outside the Renwick Museum:
A woman is walking out of the Renwick with a half dozen young girls, around 8-10 years old.
She exclaims generally to the group: “That’s why they call it Burning Man! Because they burn a *man* at the end!”
The girls are silent.
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Overseen?
On U Street NW:
A woman is walking down the street, phone in one hand and vape in the other. She makes eye contact with a passerby, then tries to take a puff from her phone.
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Boom
At Dacha Beer Garden on Saturday afternoon:
Guy 1: “Can you take your sunglasses off? I see myself in the reflection and it’s like I’m talking to myself.”
Guy 2: “You are.” (Takes giant swill of beer)
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Turn left at the McNugget
Tuesday evening on the H3 bus:
Young woman to friend: “I love living in Tenleytown, but hate that I have to use McDonald’s as my main reference point.”
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Little late
On 14th Street NW:
Two twenty-something women are walking down the street, noting all the Pride flags and banners that remain.
Woman 1: “I guess they keep their Pride flags up here well past Pride weekend since it’s the gay neighborhood.”
Woman 2: “They should call it the gayborhood!”
Woman 1: “OMG that’s genius! We have to tell everyone we know about this new term we just created. I’ll email Urban Dictionary!”
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The All-Star Game festivities got CRAZY!
Two men walking out of a restaurant near the Senate side of the Capitol:
Man 1: “I heard you hurt yourself over the weekend eating a hot dog.”
Man 2 shakes his head.
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Next stop, disappointment
On a Northeast Regional train at Union Station:
Man (loud enough to be heard by the entire car): “Wait until we pass the Washington Monument on this train! Which side is the best side to be on to get pictures?”
Local: “This train doesn’t go by the Washington Monument.”
Man, after a pause: “Okay, the Lincoln Memorial then.”
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Interns are learning
At Teaism:
A group of twenty-somethings are sitting.
One of them: “I don’t think I’ll ever work for free again, it’s just so hard.”
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Kids are smart
On the Silver line stuck in the tunnel between stops:
Kid: “But I don’t have signal! Come on mom, you have signal everywhere you go! I just want to watch Netflix on the train like you do!”
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That’s helpful
On the Mall:
Person on the phone: “I told you! I’m standing by the tree next to the museum!”
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Right
On M Street NW:
Two young women, maybe 18 to 20 years old, with matching neon pink bookbags are walking.
Woman 1: “I haven’t had any good tacos in D.C.”
Woman 2 looks across the street.
Woman 2: “We could try… District Tacos or… Embajada de Honduras.”
Woman 1: “Ooooh Embajada de Honduras, how authentic!”
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See above
At a work social event playing bocce in Georgetown:
Woman 1: “Why didn’t the interns want to play anymore?”
Woman 2: “I don’t think they thought it was fun when I kept beating them.”
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