Overheard in DC

The list of my favorite things that I've heard from passers by on the streets of my neighborhood just got a new entry. While walking back from breakfast on Saturday morning, I passed by a couple who was looking every bit the overweight, out-of-place tourists, complete with fanny packs. The woman was talking on her phone, and saying in an incredulous voice that couldn't be described in type:

"We're walking around! Ha! On the street!!"

Now, it's entirely possible that I'm taking this grossly out of context. Maybe it was an inside joke, maybe there was a perfectly understandable explanation for it. But it sounded (and, frankly, looked) for all the world to me like a person amazed at being able to use her feet for honest-to-God transportation. I really hope that I misunderstood, because it's depressing to think that suburban society has come to the point where walking is a novelty.