Eavesdrop DC

Guy: They’re doing God’s work here.
–Jumbo Slice in Adams Morgan, 3:30pm on Valentine’s Day. Yes, PM.

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18th and Columbia NW:
Man: This makes me so angry! Predictive text won’t let me write ‘bastard.’
Woman: Yeah, it’s like the people who invented it didn’t want anybody to swear.

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In Jumbo Slice in Adams Morgan and two girls were talking about a dating site and one explains: I didn’t want to put “any” in my profile ’cause I didn’t want anybody into Buddhisism…you know, like, BUDDHISISM! That would be too weird for me.
(Editor’s Note: that’s how the religion was spelled in the email we [...]

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At an Italian restaurant in Adams Morgan, a girl and a guy on a date on Valentine’s Day:
Girl: So, I want to try ecstasyGuy: Why?Girl: You did.Guy: Yeah but that was five years ago.

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Guy: I used to have a Jewish girlfriend and it was great – I’d get to celebrate all the holidays with her family. My favorite was the one where the dad hid lottery tickets around the house.
–Adams Morgan

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Guy: I gotta start drinking early, ‘cus no one likes a sober Santa
–Adams Morgan

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One older gentleman talking to another, watching cops chase down some teenage thugs:
“If they’d just start killing them young heathens, there wouldn’t be so much violence around here.”
–Adams Morgan

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