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 at the Library of Congress:

Girl: “You would think they would follow what happened at Genovia.”
Girl 2: “You mean Geneva.”
Girl: “No I don’t.”
Girl 2: “Well unless you think they should follow the plot of The Princess Diaries, I promise, you mean Geneva.”

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This week in Yeah A Kid Definitely Said That

Two boys in Navy Yard, about age 7, dressed head to toe in Nats gear and heading to a Nats game. They are out of earshot of their dads:

Boy 1: “Justin said it was okay.”
Boy 2: “I don’t think Justin knows shit about the law.”

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A cloak of invincibility 

Overheard on the Green Line train heading to Greenbelt:

Woman: “Once I get some tequila flowing through my veins I’ll walk anywhere.”

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This would go viral on poetry Instagram 

At the Line Hotel, an older, white-haired man is meeting up for lunch with a college-aged student, in seemingly a student/mentor situation. Their conversation meanders from religious ideology, her recent trip to Spain, and eventually his family: 

Man, presumably about his wife or daughter: “She’s just plain beautiful. There’s nothing to be done about her.”

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Well…let those who have never felt insecure be the first to cast a stone! 

A boy and girl in their early 20s on a date/ brunch at Yellow in Georgetown.

The girl is enthusiastically nodding her head and eating her half-eaten salad when the boy asks: “So how is our second date going? Do you still like me? Okay good.”

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Got her good 

At the intersection of S and 13th NW, a mom and her toddler daughter are taking a walk on a breezy sunny day:

Mom: “Some words are not nice to say in every conversation we have. It doesn’t make people happy when we say them all the time. And it’s not nice to make others uncomfortable.”
Toddler: “Pee pee poo poo.” *laughs to herself*

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Whatever happened to a little whimsy???? 

On the sidewalk of the 1400 block of T Street, NW, a 20-something to her two friends: 

“Did you know that baby carrots are just, like, carved carrots?

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Probably fun at parties 

Overheard in the halls of Congress from one mid-to-senior staffer to another:

“I think the path to making a lot of money as a legislative staffer is easy. Just help pass a law that provides a ton of handouts to industry and you’re set.”

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Good reference!

Two thirty-something women walking in West End, discussing remarks they just finished for an executive or high-level person:

Woman 1: “Let’s hope she likes it.”
Woman 2: “I don’t work, I slay, slay. I don’t hope, I pray, pray.”
Woman 1: (pause) “Was that Todrick Hall? I appreciate the reference.”

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