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If ever there was proof that the 1990s are definitely back, here you have it.

Overheard of the Week

On a Metro train

Young woman: “We met at a Dawson’s Creek party.”

Friend: “What year?”

Young woman: “So this was last week.”

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A good response to the clipboard people

A a man and woman in their 20s are walking down H Street NE when they’re approached by a Human Rights Campaign canvasser

HRC guy (sticks clipboard out at them): “Do you have a minute to support gay rights?”

Woman (keeps walking and hugs the guy walking with her): “He’s gay and I support him.”

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Hmmmmmm

On the Duke Ellington Bridge between Adams Morgan and Woodley Park

Two women in their 20s are chatting and walking.

Woman 1: “I never realized that DMV stood for Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. I guess I hadn’t thought about it.”

Woman 2: “Yeah, my dad is from Delaware.”

Woman 1: “It seems a little far. I wonder why they would choose Delaware and not other states like Pennsylvania?”

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That is a tricky one

At 14th and T streets NW

Couple in their mid 20s is talking.

Man: “Define wet.”

Woman: “How can we establish this property if we haven’t explored wetness.”

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Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason

Near Dupont Circle, a group of four 20 something bros riding bikes

Bro 1: “Haha, guess what my bar tab was last night.”

Bro 2: “What?!”

Bro 1: “69.”

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Full of ads?

At The Den Coffeehouse in NW

A 20-something woman to her friend over breakfast: “Look at how thick it is!”

(holds up her spoon and turns it upside down to demonstrate)

“It’s like the GQ of yogurt.”

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Not a good response to the clipboard people

In Dupont Circle

Canvasser: “Hi, would you like to donate to the ACLU?”

Middle-aged woman: “Well, I’ve already donated to the International Association of Scientologists.”

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Sometimes you have to be a saint to be an rideshare driver

In Dupont after the Pride Parade

Early 20s guy on the phone with his Uber driver: “I’m right by all the rainbow flags.”

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Solution: put a giant plow on the front and push them out of the way

Riding on the D.C. Streetcar headed toward Union Station

The car suddenly comes to a stop.

The driver says on the loudspeaker: “Okay folks, somebody didn’t park right.”

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Well that’s a little harsh

Two young professionals approaching Washington Circle discussing career advice

“Chicago? Chicago is where dreams go to die.”

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I mean, what if it was? 

Mom to her 5 or 6 year old kid at the newly opened fossil hall at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum

“It’s not a mermaid dinosaur, it’s a seal”

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Correlation? Causation? 

Sunday morning at Quincy Park in Arlington. A woman is speaking to a man, and their daughter is playing nearby  

Woman: “We had a child and Arlington got worse.”

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True fact

Three twenty-somethings are walking down the sidewalk on 4th Street SE in Navy Yard

Woman: “My sister lives in Alexandria. That’s in Virginia.”

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Definitely a teenager

Tourist teen excitedly upon spotting the Sofitel’s French flag at 14th and H streets in Northwest

Teen: “Is that the French Embassy!?”

Woman passerby: “No, it’s a French hotel, Sofitel.”

Teen: “So it’s like an embassy, but for sex!”