Rachel Sadon
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Sometimes the stereotypes are just true.
Overheard of the Week
Two late twenty-somethings are crossing Pennsylvania Avenue:
Woman 1: “He acts like he’s on House of Cards or something.”
Woman 2: “Ha, more like Veep.”
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Maybe just get an advisor?
Two college students at lunch at DC Noodles:
Girl 1: “I just want like Joe Biden or someone to tell me what to major in. No, Liz Warren. I want Liz Warren to take me by the shoulders and tell me what to do.”
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Still no
Crossing the Potomac on Metro:
Child, looking out the window: “Ooh, is that a pond?”
Mom: “No sweetie, that’s a lake.”
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If this isn’t Lasik, we don’t want to know
A woman is walking down Kalorama past Harris Teeter, talking on a cellphone:
“Did I tell you I’m going to Los Angeles? To get my eyes done! … I don’t know, I feel like the doctors here will, like, screw it up.”
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???
Three 20-something tourists, two men and a woman, walking towards the Washington Monument:
Guy: “I took another look at that dick pic last night and I still don’t think it is mine.”
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Not exactly a debate champion
On the platform waiting for Metro. A man is speaking to someone over the phone:
Man: “You keep saying it’s 2020 and women don’t need a man. Let me ask you something—can you give yourself an orgasm?”
Woman on the other end of the line, clear as day: “Yes I can.”
Man: “But that would get old after a while.”
Woman appears to hang up on him.
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True conversationalists
Three twenty-something men walking in Dupont around lunchtime Monday:
Guy 1: “I love tacos so much, man.”
Guy 2: “I know man, tacos.”
Guy 3: “Tacos, man.”
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So many follow up questions
Man in late twenties or early thirties walking from the Silver Spring Transit Center, talking on the phone:
“The electric slide! Can you believe it? They made me dance the fucking electric slide! That’s the song that got me kicked out of my third grade dance competition!”
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