Lady professor: AU is so different, there are so many females here. When I was in college, my sophomore year it was a five to one ratio! Males to females! The men were hanging from the trees. You’d walk through campus, wary, and then you’d sit at the cafeteria table and look up from your breakfast and there would be five guys -just staring at you!
Justice Research Class, American University
Washington, D.C.
Chick #1: I miss my car.
Chick #2: I miss my car too. Not like, driving it or anything. But I miss my car. We’ve been through so much together –four accidents, hitting a mailbox, and a lot of repairs. But I’m not like, a bad driver or anything.
George Washington University
Washington, DC
Guy on phone: I don’t vote for people who put their name in quotation marks on the ballot… Well, yeah, if it was ‘Killer,’ then I’d definitely vote for him.
http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/2007/06/but-would-you-vote-for-pokey.html
Overheard by:
Grandpa to grandson: … And no one but nobody can be a young leader if they crack their knuckles!
Washington, DC
Preppy girl #1: Wow, now we all have the same necklace! We should all wear them the next time we go out!
Preppy girl #2: Yeah! We’d be like the Power Rangers or something!
Preppy girl #3: Or we’d be like douchebags.
Eastern Market
Washington, DC
Overheard by: office peon does d.c.
American history professor: Whoever is writing ‘vah-jay-jay’ instead of ‘Virginia’ in the notes they are submitting, please stop.
eavesdropdc.blogspot.com
Hobo: Damn, shorty, you lookin’ good!
Black girl, groping white boy passerby: I don’t like the dark chocolate — I need a boy I can see my reflection in!
Washington, DC
Overheard by: D.B.
Child, about diorama: Mommy, is that real?
Mother: No, it’s all lies. Let’s go.
Museum
Washington, DC
Man on cell: … So I just put her in the closet, because she’s very quiet…
Military Road and 41st Street NW
Washington, DC
Ciggy #1: The time you and I went and bought cigarettes — was that the night you went in a toga?
Ciggy #2: Haha, oh my god, yes! Oh, wait… Was that the lesbian night?
Washington, DC
