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: 

 A mother and her child walking by a building in Cleveland Park that’s having its siding redone:

“Mommy… is that building wrapped because it’s almost Christmas?”

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So close 

A teenage girl on the Blue Line:

“Largo? That’s Spanish for large.”

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At least she apologized 

A woman wearing impossibly high heels carefully stepping over and into a plant box barrier to access a car on U Street:

“Omg! I’m killing plants. I’m so sorry nature.”

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Age ain’t nothing but a number

Two 20-something women talking about their work week at Elle in Mount Pleasant:

Woman 1: “How old was she?”
Woman 2: “She was a woman, like, she’s a mom.”

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She’s not wrong

Mom and her young son at the Whole Foods in Clarendon on a Sunday morning. Her son leaves a full-sized cart in the produce section, blocking the aisle: 

Mom: “William! Move the cart immediately! William!”
William: “Sorry. My fault.”
Mom: “You know how aggressive it gets here. You can’t do that.”

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A city of nerds

Two parents and their three young children having dinner at Red Rocks in Columbia Heights and playing a word game:

Oldest child: “Name a word that starts with E and ends in I.”
Mother: “Ennui.”

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