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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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It’s late summer, and that means one thing: tourists aplenty. Thanks for the tax dollars and the funny quips, folks.
Overheard of the Week
At Peregrine Espresso
Tourist man in a red white and blue Bill of Rights-themed t-shirt walks in.
“What’s your most regular coffee?”
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Busted
At the CVS by Farragut North, Friday afternoon
Employee over PA system: “Attention, gentleman in Aisle 4. Please take those things out your backpack and get out the damn store.”
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Narrowing it down
Across the street from the Navy Yard Metro Station before a Nats game
Middle-aged guy talking on his cell phone while looking into the throngs of people: “Are you wearing red?”
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Variation on a tourist classic
On a flight from Tampa while approaching DCA
Teenage girl to brother: “Oh my God, stop asking if every building is the White House. Do you not know what it looks like? You’re like 14!”
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Is that even allowed anymore?
Mid-afternoon on Sunday outside Baked and Wired in Georgetown
Mid 20s woman to mid 20s man who was taking a picture of a sign: “Wait, so you just take pictures and don’t post them to Instagram?!”
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Yes, everyone knows those types
At Saint Martin’s salon in Mt. Pleasant
Man getting his hair cut to his stylist: “I’m not one of those paleontologists who has to go out and dig on the weekends.”
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Brown flip flop inception
Midday in an office building lobby at Thomas Circle, where three 20-something coworkers are waiting for their elevator.
Man: “Lower Ballston is basically a neighborhood inside a neighborhood.”
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Slow your roll
At a bar in Shaw on Saturday evening, a table of twenty- or thirty-somethings is chatting
Woman: “Oh, that sounds like my fitness pole dancing class!”
Man: “Do you put on like, recitals?”
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Tourist dads got jokes, too
5:30 p.m. on a weekday near the Smithsonian Castle
Fanny-pack wearing dad to his tourist family: “As long as they have busboys, I’m okay. I don’t care about the poetry.”
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Yes, his most well-known work
At Looking Glass Lounge on Saturday night:
Late 20 something man to 20 something woman talking about his lazy Saturday:
Man: “Yeah, didn’t do much, watched a that new Matt Groening show.”
Woman: “Who?”
Man: “You know, Matt Groening, the guy who did ‘Futurama.’”
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