Archive for "Metro/commute/travel"

Wrath at endemic Metro euphemism

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Two hours after a collision with confirmed deaths and they were still calling it “mechanical difficulties”, the lying sacks of excrement.

Suspicious Metro incident

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Feeling moved to do my part in helping Metro track suspicious behavior, I immediately called and told them about the people I just saw actually moving to the center of the car.

Citizens on patrol

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

God, I wish that when those BART officers started getting rough, that everybody on the train had surrounded them, at a reasonable distance, with a phalanx of cell phone cameras.

Conditioned to pay $4 a gallon for gas

Monday, November 17th, 2008

When I pay under two bucks for gas now, I feel like I should leave an extra large tip or something.

I’m from DC but I like the Cowboys

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

See, the Redskins are the one unifying factor in the District — the one thing that can get the Capitol Hill suits gregariously chit-chatting with the security guards. For a DC native to go against that — man, what ARE they trying to prove? They seem to pop up quite often though. Just being different. Going their own way. Their folks zig, these bamas zag.