Eavesdrop DC » Dumb chicks

Lacrosse – now with more racism.

eavesdropdc — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:33:25 +0000

Girl in Pentagon City talking to friends:

“I watched lacrosse for the first time the other day. I don’t get it. They just run around and hit each other with sticks. It’s like Rodney King.”

Thank you, DC Public Schools

eavesdropdc — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:24:32 +0000

During Jury Orientation in the Moultrie Courthouse.

Lady in the row in front of me: “Um, I have a question. The form I filled out says that if I don’t get picked, I have to come back in 2 years. But now you’re telling me I’ll have to come back in 24 months. So I’m confused. Which is it? 24 months or 2 years?”

Guy in the row behind me: “Thank you, DC Public Schools.”

Geography Lesson Fail

eavesdropdc — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:55:08 +0000

Overheard at a GWU vs. UNC-Charlotte baseball game as two GWU students heckle the Charlotte team:

GWU Girl 1 heckles: Go back to Virginia!
[pause]
GWU Girl 2: No, that’s Charlottesville.

That would just be silly.

eavesdropdc — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:57:31 +0000

Overheard on the red line between Union Station and Judiciary Square:

Woman 1: This metro announcer sounds different than the announcer on our last train. Do you think it’s a real person announcing the stops?

Woman 2: Definitely not.

[insert Jessica Simpson tuna fish joke here]

eavesdropdc — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:18:40 +0000

@ Common Wealth restaurant in Columbia Heights

Blonde in her mid twenties asks the waiter: “London Broil is a white fish, right?”

Stupid is as stupid does

eavesdropdc — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:54:30 +0000

@ 13th and N Streets, NW:

A girl is waiting for the elevator when we walk up and press the down
button. She looks at us in exasperation:

“These elevators suck! I have been standing here for 20 minutes trying
to get to the 8th floor, but every time I press the button, the
elevator just stays still!”

We were on the 8th floor.

Maryland scares me.

eavesdropdc — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:02:48 +0000

At DC Kickball game in Adam’s Morgan

Girl to teammate: Oh, hey, have a nice trip!!

Guy: Where is she going?

Girl: Suburban Maryland.

When I pulled my hamstring, I went to an androgynous.

eavesdropdc — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:59:31 +0000

Two young professionals on the metro:
Girl 1: Wait. You don’t know who Julia Child is? I mean, Julia Child is like the Abraham Lincoln of the home! You do know who Abraham Lincoln is, right?
Boy 2: Well, yeah, but he appealed to a more androgynous crowd…

Teddy Fail

eavesdropdc — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:55:21 +0000

Arlington National Cemetery, in front of Ted Kennedy’s grave:

girl 1: “Whose grave is that?”

girl 2: “Theodore Roosevelt, I think”

Well, he did write The Sound and the Fury

eavesdropdc — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:11:20 +0000

Female student in GW’s Colonial Central office:

“Faulkner? He was some Christian crazy person…”