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. Check out the archives here.

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Overheard of the week:

Middle-aged lady with her young children and husband, asking loudly for everyone to hear at the crosswalk at M and 34th in Georgetown: 

“WHERE IS GEORGETOWN??”

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That’s what’s engraved on the Statue of Liberty, yeah

Mom to her young son near Lincoln Park on Friday morning:

“Let’s go — that is American life, eat as we go. Walking and eating”

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Such a great listener

At Souk in Capitol Hill on a Friday morning. Two girls explaining to a guy about U.S. geography:

Girl 1: “So D.C. is here, VA is here, MD is here, and Delaware is up here.”
Guy: “So wait, what state are we in now?”
Girl 2: “We’re not in a state, [points behind her at a D.C. statehood sign] we’re in D.C. It’s it’s own thing, we’re run by the U.S.” [Continues to explain about our government]
Guy: “Wait, how have I been alive 29 years and not knew we had an extra state?”

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Remind me to avoid these two guys

Two bros at Village Brauhaus in Old Town: 

Bro 1 to Bro 2: “I just love getting drunk and speaking German.”

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Had to look this one up

A man and a woman in their 20s are walking through the Sakura Matsuri Japanese Street Festival:

Woman: “You know what’s been stuck in my head?  That meme of Megamind going ‘no bitches?'”

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How do you solve a problem like a boring palate?

High schoolers in line at a fast casual restaurant in Penn Quarter:

Girl 1: [shocked] “You’ve never had shawarma before?!?!”
Girl 2: “Well what’s it like?”
Girl 1: [wistfully] “I mean, how do you describe a color you’ve never seen?”

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Daniel Craig is great in this one

A family is watching episode 2 of the new Netflix docuseries Our Great National Parks in which two stag beetles are fighting: 

Dad: “This is like watching James Bond or Bruce Willis or Bruce Lee hanging off a building — I mean that beetle got underneath the other one, flipped it, and now they’re both dangling on a tree!!”

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A love story

Nice sunny afternoon, two women strolling in Adams Morgan:

Woman 1: “Do you want a coffee?”
Woman 2: [non-committal mumbling]
Woman 1: “Do you want to walk around?”
Woman 2: [non-committal mumbling]
Woman 1: “What do you want to do?”
Woman 2: [non-committal mumbling]
Woman 1: “Let’s sit in the car for a bit.”
Woman 2: “Perfect!”

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How to lose a guy at DCA

Over the airport intercom at Washington National Airport:

“Paging passenger xxx xxx.  Please return to the security checkpoint. Your husband can’t get through without his ID.”

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