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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: 

Three young women are walking toward Dupont Circle…

Woman 1: “….I mean, if you’re going to run somewhere smothered in mayonnaise, wouldn’t you want your friends there cheering you on? So people know that you lost a bet or something? Otherwise people will think you’re, like, a predator or something!”

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The children are the future

Two presumably undergraduate students walking through Georgetown University’s main campus gate onto campus:

The male student says to the female student “…[inaudible]…if and when I become a multimillionaire, then maybe as a giant f*ck you…[inaudible]…”

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It never hurts to double check

A woman orders a sandwich at the order counter then moves down the line to the prep guy:

He asks, “Do you want lettuce and tomato on that?” Looking a little confused, she replies slowly: “I ordered a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.”

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Someone get this guy overtime pay

Overheard outside the Convention Center on Saturday afternoon, during the DC Auto Show. Traffic is a mess. Cars are lined up for almost the full block in all directions, with some honking pointlessly from half a block away. Two cars, coming from two different directions, have both pushed far enough into the intersection to block the crosswalk and force pedestrians to walk behind them while forcing perpendicular traffic to swerve to avoid a collision. A somewhat exasperated traffic cop tries valiantly to keep pedestrians safe and get traffic moving again:
Pedestrian: “No one at the auto show even knows how to drive!”
Traffic cop, emphatically: “They DON’T!!!”

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[Glares at Nick Sirianni]

On an Amtrak NE Regional train from New York to D.C., as it approaches the Philadelphia stop:
Conductor over the loudspeaker: “Next stop is Philadelphia, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, who just choked big-time in the playoffs …”

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Who among us? 

A person was having coffee with a friend in Adams Morgan. He was telling a story that became a long rant, and then paused and said: 

“Anyway, I have to get off that horse now before I end up lost in the desert of despair.”

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Now that’s what I call women supporting women

Two women in their late 20s are walking down Connecticut Ave. near the Mayflower Hotel:
Woman 1: “I LOVE getting high on my friend’s dime!”
Woman 2: “Girl, you can always get high on MY dime!”

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