June 23, 2004
Well, you won't be able to call it Groggy Bottom
On page three of this morning's Express, there's an ad that says, "What's better than a Starbucks opening in your neighborhood? Two Starbucks opening in your neighborhood." Following, of course, were the addresses of two new Starbucks opening in Foggy Bottom. After the requesite groan, I thought of some things that are better than two Starbucks opening in my neighborhood:
- Urban Safeways with fresh food and decent selection. Like, you know, suburban Safeways.
- Bus routes not frequented by crazy people. It's always buses, never trains, for some reason.
- A used record shop in my neighborhood.
- A batting cage in my neighborhood. That would be sweet.
- An end to the repaving of R Street.
- A $1 across-the-board cut in the price of drinks at the 9:30 Club.
- Marshmellow Peeps. They should sell those year-round.
Posted by rj3 at June 23, 2004 3:30 PM
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crazy people ride the buses instead of the trains because they ride buses for free all day.
Posted by: nm at June 23, 2004 5:01 PM
Actually, that's not true. They can only get two hours of free rides on the buses like the rest of. They could ride the trains for even longer (and the trains are airconditioned), but couldn't get out to use the bathroom or anything....
Posted by: Aaron G. at June 23, 2004 5:36 PM
Can't you just keep pulling transfers on the busses? (or was that only in Baltimore)
Posted by: Amanda at June 24, 2004 9:55 AM
Nope. If you come on the bus with a transfer, you can't get another one. Transfers in D.C. are handed out by drivers, so they control who gets one and who doesn't.
Posted by: Aaron G. at June 24, 2004 10:18 AM
it's definitely true, because i've seen many homeless people get on the bus without showing any sort of pass, and the drivers just let them on.
Posted by: nm at June 24, 2004 10:20 AM
there's definitely a vastly different crowd on the buses, i'm a bus-girl and they are a people watching extravaganza -- and yes, the safeways here are ridiculously horrible -- and lastly, for some reason when I'm drunk I find it really fun to run thru the R-street construction as an 'offroading adventure' - that was when it was just dirt mounds though --
Posted by: B at June 24, 2004 3:26 PM