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: 

At City-State Brewing on a Sunday afternoon, a man to a gaggle of friends:

(Interrupting) “Well, as a straight, cisgender white man, I can tell you that…”

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Yesss total lolz! And how is that going for us 

Girl to her friend outside the Cannon Office Building:

“It’s funny to think the congressmen were once, like, frat bros.”

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At least it wasn’t a DCA/Dulles mixup 

Two millennial women at the 9:30 Club will call window before a show:

One woman said rather dejectedly to the other: “Oh … so it’s at The Anthem?”

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The hottest of brass instruments, imo

A young dating couple (mid-20ish) walking in Rock Creek Park:

Woman: “Oh my god, I can totally see you playing the trumpet.”

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Why would you NOT watch that

Three mid- to late 20-somethings (a husband, wife and her female best friend) at the Tune Inn:

Best friend: “I watched Fall of the House of Usher and it was scary.”
Wife: “I didn’t watch it because I thought it was about Usher!”
Husband: (baffled look)

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We got the point

Drunk American woman chatting up a British person at a D.C. bar on Halloween:

“London is great. You guys have a better transient system than we do.”

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Awesome, good stuff 

Wednesday morning on the Northeast Regional Amtrak heading north. A woman is on a work call complaining about something a third party did:

“I tried to be a human about it and now I have to be a lawyer about it.”

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Is this what people mean when they talk about “golden retriever” boyfriends?

Young-ish woman and man walking in Chinatown on a Sunday: 

Woman: “You can’t just pick up random gummy bears from the sidewalk…”

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