Is that necessary?

Overheard on the P6 north to Rhode Island Avenue station:

Mid-20s black male is struggling to get his dollar to go into the farebox.

Male bus driver: “Would you hurry up already? Man, I would hate to be your girlfriend! [In a female voice:] ‘Is it in yet?! Is it in yet?!’”

“America! Back to back winners of world wars!”

—overheard at Nats Park

As I was walking to the store, I passed this young woman talking on the phone. This is what I overheard:

“We didn’t have that many: 2 cotillions, that cruise….”

I am grateful I didn’t have to hear more than that.

Rich girls, ugh.

Adorbs.

The middle-aged gays next to me at this coffee shop are trying to remember the name of the Jimmy Fallon segment where Obama slow jammed the news.  Their guesses thus far:

“Smooth News”
“News Jam”
“It has some kind of great name.”

“Overheard of the Week On the GW campus at 22nd & H St NW: A college girl to a college guy: "Last night was crazy, I woke up at 5:00am because Steve brought a tranny over to try and blow Pete in his sleep." ”

—DCist

“-Is a potato a vegetable? -It is, isn't? I don't know. -But isn't it a starch?”

—A dialogue between two people who will remain nameless.

What I put up with at the inauguration was a shouted response to everything said over the loudspeaker (by a man who climbed up a freaking tree) but twisted to be about abortion. The heckler never once brought up the subject of women or mentioned women for the hour he screamed into the crowd about the "American Holocaust." Like,

  • Obama: Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
  • Tree-climbing heckler: OBAMA IS THE ANTICHRIST. OBAMA KILLS BABIES.
  • Obama: For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they’ve never been self-executing.
  • Tree-climbing heckler: STOP EXECUTING BAAAAABIEEEEES
  • Underling to another: As someone who owns not one but two pairs of Dale Earnhardt pajama pants, I am in no position to criticize you for growing up in a trailer park.

“I’m too ugly to be a prostitute, but I can be their bodyguard.”

—Yuli Retoblaut, former cross-dressing nanny of President Obama, talking to The Washington Post about transgenders facing discrimination in Indonesia.  #overheardindc
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