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: 

One 30-something turns to another at the start of intermission during the musical Cats: 

“What in the hell was that?”

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And, scene

By a noisy copier in a federal building, colleagues A and M discover they’re mutually enamored with Fellini’s wife’s performances in his films but can’t think of her name. K approaches and mishears.

A: “Hey, K, who was Fellini’s wife?”
K: “Huh, what? What is the meaning of life???”
M: “I’m totally sending this to DCist.”

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Oh okay, so if everyone else jumped off a bridge… 

Heard at a dog run in a luxury Navy Yard apartment:

“Morty, focus … Morty, everyone’s pooping but you.”

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Sir, this seems indicative of a larger issue

Overheard around 6 p.m. at Tryst in Adams Morgan, two businessmen (dressed in suits) in their late 30s

Businessman 1, receives coffee without the Tryst-special side of two animal crackers: *goes to counter to request animal crackers*
Businessman 1, returns with plate of animal crackers: “There are very few things in life that bring me joy, animal crackers is one of them.”

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A case against buccal fat removal

Overheard on a run in Rock Creek Park: 

One runner to her running partner: “You can’t age out of anything.  That’s for BORING adults.”

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But who’s counting

A guy walking down Mt. Pleasant Street talking not quietly on his phone: 

“Yeah, Cory had her eggs frozen — we’ve got five left!”

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Choose your own adventure

Middle-aged woman talking to her child walking into the Smithsonian Natural History Museum evolution exhibit:

“There’s two views on this: the scientific-al way and the Christian way.”

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Wrong answers only

20-something woman on a walk at the Mall talking on the phone, after passing a gaggle of moms and kids who appeared to be in D.C.  for the March for Life

“Guess who’s overpopulating the city this weekend?”

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Guys, sometimes things are better left unsent to the Overheards inbox

Dude on phone in Navy Yard , 1st and M:

“I do, I love you so much. But loving you isn’t getting me anywhere.”

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