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Woo, it’s 2019! You can tell people are excited for 2018 to be over, for a number of reasons.

Overheard of the Week:

At Metro Center station, early Saturday, December 29th, a woman walks up to a man sitting on a bench

Woman: “Jesus told me to tell you he loves you.”

The guy thanks her. She asks if she can pray over him; he agrees. They clasp hands; she prays. He thanks her; she walks away.

Twenty seconds later, she walks back. “You have a spirit of RAGE. Can I pray over you again?”

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Aww

Between the Washington Monument and World War II Memorial in the afternoon, the father of a family of four points excitedly through the trees

Dad: “Look over there kids! Look!  It’s the White House!”

Kids peer excitedly: “Where? Where?”

Mom: “Shall we take a picture of the two of them shaking their fists at it?”

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Let’s all guess where this is

Sunday evening on Pennsylvania Avenue, near Foggy Bottom:

Early-20s woman to another early 20s woman: “It’s not sketchy, just …  out of the way.”

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Go back to Boston!

At the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in front of the Capitol

Two men, clearly tourists, are walking.

Man 1: “Look, it’s Paul Revere!”
Man 2: “Dude, not every guy on a horse is Paul Revere.”

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Location checks out

At Palm Beach Tan in Clarendon:

One 20-something bro to another: “Dude, that’s been all over my memes.”

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That’s a new one

On New Year’s Eve around 5:30 p.m., a group of 20-somethings is walking from Union Station towards North Capitol Street

Man to woman: “So I guess I have a bird fetish or something.”

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Maybe they should talk to the meme bros

In Chinatown:

A group of young women pose for a photo after a barre class on New Year’s Eve. They all gather around to see the photo and all squeal with delight at how great they look.

Woman 1: “Let’s take one with our legs like this for the ‘Gram!”

Woman 2: “Can you throw a filter on that so I look more tan?”

Instructor: “Um … of course. We all want to look more tan!”

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I feel like most people would be confused like this

At the new Terrain store inside the Anthropologie in Bethesda:

A man who looks to be in his late 50s picks up grapefruit-scented hand soap in a bottle not understanding what it is and asks a sales associate, earnestly.

Man: “You give this grapefruit water to the plant?”

Perplexed associate: “Umm … Sir, that’s soap. Like, for your hands. I’m pretty sure the plants would die if you gave that to them.”

Man: “Ah yes, I see.” (He puts the soap down and sheepishly exits the store.)

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You’re grounded, sergeant!

On the Amtrak train from D.C. to NYC:

Someone in the military is talking on a cellphone to a friend who has apparently gotten in trouble: “It’s not like it’s jail jail. You’re just stuck on base. You have to do something real bad to get stuck in jail jail.”

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