It’s not sose you’d notice. Yet. Metro’s as busy as ever. On the train, an anxious man in an expensive suit bit his fingernails, and two schoolgirls fiddled with a set of drumsticks.
The man who stands at the top of the Foggy Bottom station warbling about Jesus warbled.
The gloomy interns at the GW Hospital Starbucks kept their heads down, as always.
On the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, UD‘s friend The Dean repeatedly sang out her name as she, the same hazelnut latte in hand as ever, waited to cross the street. She’d seen him last night at a reception for our dean’s list students and he’d been all deanly, but here he was done up in bright yellow and straddling a bicycle.
“Twice in one day I see you!” he said.
“Well,” said UD, “stretching the concept day…” She looked him, a fellow ‘thesdan, over. “You do this every day? You bike in from Bethesda?”
“Yep.”
“Jeez. You make me feel like a lazy good for nothing. How do you avoid traffic?”
“You can take the Crescent Trail all the way in.”
“Jeez.”
“Somebody asked me: Do you like cycling? I said No. This is just the way I happen to get to work.”
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:55AM
But I’d guess that the section along the C&O Canal is shut down now, no?