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Overheard of the Week:
An Oktoberfest party at Hellbender Brewery is teeming with children. A couple walks in. The man stands in the middle of the madness looking around for a few seconds:
He mutters: “I can’t deal with this shit.”
*Walks out*
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Let them be, the market will regulate itself
A Stanton Park’s playground, three toddlers converse on one toy, two end up crying:
Dad, clearly an economist: “There’s definitely some market forces at work here.”
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The ultimate betrayal
A man taking a break outside Safeway, talking exasperatedly on the phone:
“Let me really hurt your feelings: She only came over to smoke all your weed.”
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“Friends”
Two coworker friends walking in Rock Creek Park, talking about work:
Woman 1: “I’m excited we’re back in person now.”
Woman 2: “Yeah, because you like going into the office…”
Woman 2 mumbles to self: “…like a psychopath.”
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We all know what happens when we assume…
20-something GW student walking on campus talking on her cell phone:
“Yeah, he is shy, that’s so sweet. But that’s why I think he is not fucking with other girls.”
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Holidays must be fun
Man pushing shopping cart through Costco while on phone:
“She *is* my favorite sibling, though. The rest of them are garbage.”
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And yet another true crime podcast host was born
Two friends overheard in Shirlington, Virginia:
Friend 1: “It was pretty graphic, but I didn’t know much about what he did since I was so young when it happened.”
Friend 2: “Jeffrey Dahmer is my gateway serial killer into loving true crime.”
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Grow up and contract an infectious disease like a REAL man
Middle-aged white bro walking down the street in front of Friendship Hospital for Animals wearing sports clothes and wired headphones:
“Real men don’t wear plastic gloves OR masks. That’s for pussies.”
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