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The Squeaky Wheel Gets the … Insult? | Overheard

By Warren Rojas
Posted June 26, 2013 at 11:06am

Man 1: “God, this thing sounds like crap.”
Man 2: “Yeah, I know. Taxpayers’ money.”

A pair of pseudo-engineers (photographing track features, debating Capitol Police procedures) chuckling about the state of the Senate subway system.

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