I kissed a girl and I liked it . . . (ha - now you'll have that song in your head all day)

Random guy going out: "Yeah, well she was married to one guy, then got divorced. Then she got married again, to another guy, then divorced again, and now she's a lesbian."
-Dupont Circle

Mmm . . . we heart artificial flavoring too.

Twenty-something girl: "I can't eat more than one M&M at a time because I like to savor them."

-virginia square

We've been infiltrated!

Gal at bar watching DNC speeches: Who's that?
Guy: Sebelius - she's the governor of Kansas
Gal: She looks like a cylon

You know how women can be . . .

Female customs and border patrol officer (in uniform): "So I wasn't surprised when he left his wife for his girlfriend, but I was surprised by the domestic battery charge . . . but, you know how women can be."

-Orange line metro

He has the same trainer as Kim Kardashian

Guy to his friend: "I got this new personal trainer and told him that I wanted a butt. So we built me a butt from scratch. I really fill out my pants now."

-Overheard on the red line near Gallery Place

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NELB - Sent in July 9

Girl to her friend: So what's the time difference between New York and DC?
--Overheard on the 7:30am Vamoose Bus from Rosslyn to NYC

NELB - sent in July 25

Interns, discussing future career plans:

Guy: "He's a pretty smart guy as I understand it."

Girl: "Well, I'm a smart girl!"

Guy: "He's a Career Ambassador, which is equivalent to a 4 star .... and you could totally take his job in like 30 years!"

Girl: "thankssssss and until then?"

Guy: "Work on your Arabic and get married. I've discovered that everybody in high level positions is married. Appaently you're not trustworthy single.

NELB - sent in July 21st

Foreign affairs intern: "we're in the same sorority. we both graduated phi beta kappa. I'm just like Condi..(pause).... but white"

NELB - sent in August 11

Bethesda Giant:

Guy 1: Dude, does this mean I can call you at any hour and be like "Brad get me a choco taco?"
Guy 2: Yep.
Guy 1: Aweeesome...

NELB - Sent in July 10

Mid-twenties couple on Red line train, talking about some event she was invited to:

Girl: "He told us to dress ‘hot’. What’s ‘hot’?"

Guy: "I’d say visually appealing."

Girl: "But I think I’m always visually appealing. I think this is hot." (gestures to work clothes)

Guy: "Spice it up a bit—wear fish nets."

NELB - sent in this morning

Waiting on an orange line metro.

A group of older tourists who seem to have covered a lot of ground that day:

Old man tourist: Where are we going now? New York? St. Louis?
Local host: We're going to Vienna.
Old man tourist: Oh, Italy!

Fergie would be so proud . . . AND it's No Eavesdrop Left Behind Day!

3 kids, under 10 years old, singing: "G-g-g-get you drunk, get you drunk, drunk off my humps..."

-By the Smithsonian castle


[Note from EavesdropDC: It's time for another No Eavesdrop Left Behind Day, so we'll be posting every hour today . . . be sure to check back frequently for more eavesdroppy goodness.]

Need vs. Want

Apropos of apparently nothing:

"Dude, I don't need boob implants."

-Cafe Japone in Dupont Circle

In other news, Nike dropped its Olympic track and field sponsorship for the math team

In a DC Office:

Early twenty something guy on the phone: "Math's not analytical; it's just formulas. You just do it."

We're assuming they play for Delaware.

Softball Player Girl: "I don't know about you, but this is gonna be one long, drunken metro ride home."

Softball Player Boy: "Lucky, I have to drive."

--CAN Softball Tournament at Goddard Softball Fields

It's scientifically proven: beer goggles do exist!

One guy to another: "Dude! You lied to me! You said she had a mustache, but she's good looking!"

-Gallery Place

[insert inappropriate terrorism joke here]

Heard standing in line to go through metal detector at a senate office building:

20 something girl intern on blackberry steps through metal detector.

Sweet-ass Security guard: "Miss your going to have to hang up your phone and run it through the machine."

20 something girl Intern: "But I'm NOT a terrorist, and I'm on an important call. Can't I just walk through?"

Sweet-ass Security guard: "Miss, that would be like Timothy McVeigh driving up and asking 'hey, can I park my car here?'"

5 points if you can hit that.

20 Something girl on cell phone on 21st Street/Dupont: "I've eaten road kill before. [pause] It's OK if you see it die. [pause] no it's not ok to if you didn't see it killed..."

A new Olympic sport

Two 20-something girls on the orange line after work.

Girl 1: "I watch MSNBC"
Girl 2: "Which show?"
Girl 1: "Oh, I like handball with Chris Matthews."
Gril 2: "Oh yeah, I like that show too!"

Don't we all?

Woman 1: Come on, hurry up! I want to go home.

Woman 2: Jesus, you sure do get cranky when you're sober.

-Adams Morgan

Who wears short shorts?

In the Georgetown Banana Republic:

Girl 1: I really love this dress, but I think it's a tad too short for work. I'm only supposed to be buying dresses for work right now.

Girl 2: Really? It's not too short for my office. But my boss only hires pretty people, so he likes it when we wear short dresses.

Girl 1: Did you think I'm ugly?

Girl 2: No!! Buy the dress and send me your resume.

Maybe he's a Cylon

Overheard in the atrium at the HQ of one of the national intelligence agencies:

Young woman to her female buddy: "...it just wasn't meant to be. He refused to self-actualize me..."

Some people have very photogenic crotches

Guy: That’s a great way to get a picture of nothing but crotch.

--US Botanic Gardens

How to repair the U.S. image abroad

US Ambassador: "I'll just go to the table shirtless"

Maybe there are whores and drugs on the bus

(on the sidewalk, a man is running)
girl 1: Hey! You can't run from your past!
girl 2: You can't run away from all the drugs! And the whores! You can't run from your past!
girl 1: Oh. He's running for a bus.

--Tryst

Ouch!

intern guy: I'm trying to imagine what a masochistic society would be like
20-something girl: ...AMAZING