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Washington, DC
Joined May 2020
"I better lower my volume and shut the fuck up before whatever I say makes it on Overheard District." Girl on phone. Thomas Circle.
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Six hours. That’s all it took for a small business to get slammed with a 50% tariff. Elana Woldenberg Ruffman, VP of Marketing and Product Development at @hand2mind, shares how “emergency” tariffs forced her team to sprint across continents to make a children’s toy—only to be
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At the McDonald's on NY & 13th: "What do you do?" "Sir, this is a McDonalds."
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On the Amtrak: “I work for Tim Kaine” “New Jersey?” “Virginia.” “Why do I know that name?” “He ran for Vice President with Hillary Clinton.” “Oh yeah...”
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In Dupont Circle: “I submitted myself to Overheard DC because I said something funny and it deserves to be seen.”
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On the Yellow Line: Tourist to local friend: “DC has really been an experience for me. I heard all about the military industrial complex stuff, but I thought it was just a meme!”
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At Purple Patch: Person 1: “My cousin got a cameo from George Santos once.” Person 2: “Oh you don’t need a cameo for that, just get in a Navy Yard elevator.”
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Announcement for a flight from ATL to IAD: “I know the flight was delayed but if we get everyone boarded in the next 10 minutes we can still leave on time. If anyone can do it, it’s people from DC.”
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Tourist: "Is that still the Potomac?" Local: "Yep." Tourist: *whispers "Man, that thing is everywhere."
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At Astro Beer Hall: Guy to his trivia team: "Shutdown Fridays are gonna go CRAZY!"
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“My productivity is at an all time low. I sound like Congress.”
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Mom and child walking past the Apple Store on K Street: Mom: "What building is this?" Child: "The National Portrait Gallery."
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Preached last week on "the church that ministers" and realized something: we've trained people to be efficient workers for God, but forgotten to teach them to be worshipers. Adoration isn't productivity. It's the restful acknowledgment that God doesn't need our resume - He
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On 14th Street: "The dating apps aren’t working. Imma go drop my pocket constitution in front of the National Guard like a Medieval noblewoman and her handkerchief."
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At Tidal Basin, an exasperated young woman exclaims to a older lady: "No, there's no way you visited Mount Rushmore here in DC BECAUSE IT'S IN SOUTH DAKOTA."
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On the Red Line: “I love your flag, is it British?” “No, it’s the DC flag.”
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Two friends walking around NoMa: “Look at the view, it looks so cool here and a nice place I’d love to live in one day.” “Yep that’s gentrification.” “Oh nevermind.”
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“Have you ever been to Silver Spring? It’s so fun there and it’s on the Red Line.” “Silver Spring? That’s so far I’ve never been that far on the Red Line, that’s all the way in MARYLAND.”
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Spotted: Statue of Trump and Epstein reinstalled in the same location
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In Dupont Circle where a crowd is salsa dancing and socializing: Guy to National Guardsmen on patrol: "Thanks for coming to save us from this war zone!" Guardsman: "Oh, you're welcome." Guy: "That was sarcasm." *Guardsmen hurry off
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Woman on K Street: “I mean I love what I do, but sometimes I’m like what the fuck am I doing, this doesn’t matter.”
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