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: 

Overheard in Adams Morgan. An out-of-state vehicle steers into a parking space and three road-weary travelers, maybe late teens or early 20s, get out and stretch.

One: “What state are we in?”
The second: “Maryland.”
The third: “No, a province of Maryland.”

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*Especially* when you’re sleeveless?

On the back patio of Trade bar during the Kink Sunday Happy Hour. Two muscular, cigar-smoking men are talking. One of them is shirtless: 

Guy wearing a shirt: “Oh, please. You wear your sluttiness on your sleeve … even when you’re sleeveless.”

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Slippery slope with this logic

On the Amtrak Northeast Regional, between New Carrollton and Union Station:

Him: “You really want to work for them? Weren’t they responsible for, like, the whole financial crisis?”
Her: “I mean, a little. But that was years ago. We were in middle school.”
Him: “That’s fair.”

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Work smarter, not harder

Three women are sitting poolside and enjoying the surrounding garden at a residential pool. 

One says to the host: “Your lawn looks terrific, too.”
Host: “I know. I got it at Home Depot.”

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Sorry for including this one

Overheard at Malcolm X Park. A group of 20-somethings is having a picnic in the grass, and one very passionate guy is speaking.

“I will die on this cross … Taylor Swift is the Bob Dylan of our generation!”

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Gentle parenting? 

A mother at a Navy Yard supermarket to her tweenage son as he is purposefully getting in her way as she is trying to take items off the shelf to put in her basket:

“I love you, but I don’t love this.”

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