Summer in DC is an amazing time of year. Tourists crowd the metro and the streets giving flawed historical tours to their families, and interns try to blend in by being self-important and giving the tourist bad directions.
These two groups of invaders also do one other thing; they provide endless material for some wonderful blogs. My two favorites are "Spotted: DC Summer Interns" and "The DCist: Overheard in DC".
As I do every summer, I'm trying my best to not get annoyed with the families, school groups, and intern classes that break all of the rules (standing by the metro doors both inside and outside the train, not taking open seats and therefore blocking access to said open seat, blocking the escalators/not standing to the right, walking on the left, taking 20 minutes to figure out how to use the turnstiles, deciding that just on the other side of the turnstile is the best place to gather your group of 30 people) and so far we're doing alright. But today is the first day of July so we've got a ways to go before the hoards die down and we return to normal life again.
I think someone needs to publish a "visitor's guide to DC public transit" that gets handed out like the morning papers. I just think those of us living here might gain a little more faith in the rest of the country if someone just told them right away that 8am and 5pm are not the best time to take your 4th graders on the metro through downtown.
Happy summering!
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