A not so Boring Night .

So, tonight, like any other night was what I thought was going to be totally boring. I work from home after I signed off at 5 i decided to go to Trader Joe’s and buy some wine. It’s getting cold outside and I need to start doubling up on my stock if I want to make it though anything close to that ice and wicked wind storm we had this past winter. Anyway, I’m standing in line and it wrapped around the store so far im faced with frozen Mexican food.

As I’m checking out I’m in the front window of the store with the cashier we start to see sirens and flashing lights, motorcycle cops, and then the Tahoe’s and we look at each other and say-is that the president? and just start laughing. I smoked Lemoncello right before this happened. For a brief and enjoyable moment in time, not only was it cool to see the presidential motorcade, but it felt cool knowing you were there at the same moment that he was there. That was my first experience.

Then I boarded the metro for a lengthy journey because I’m too cheap to pay for Uber during a surge. DC is 6.8 square miles, I can walk for free dammit! All the cars were all of the old cars with the original carpet from the 70’s like wtf silver line? The metro escalator is broken, the metro escalator is broken and has been broken since before I was probably born. Step back doors closing.

Does anyone remember the good old days when you could ride the metro and close your eyes and relax to the point where you could probably already be asleep because you knew that the lady conductor would announce the next stop over the loudspeaker and that gifted woman woke your ass up everytime.

Thank you loud lady conductor, you were right becaus they can never replace how loud, annoying and consistently shocking your voice was to wake up to, but no body missed their stops or got confused about where they were going on your watch!! So people don’t sleep on the metro anymore, which sucks because I especially liked watching that guy fall asleep and continue to jerk his neck until you thought it he was too tired to fight back and you wait for the moment when he really is going to hit his head but he wakes up to the conductors announcement for his next stop. What I saw tonight was cool, it was funny, it didn’t bother anyone and actually it was the least annoying and some of the most amusing panhandling I have seen in years.

Hats off to the broke guys who danced tonight and made everyone smile.
There were 5 of them and in less than 2 minutes they performed a choreographed performance with an opening, a set and a main attraction. This was group of young teenage boys with trendy hairdos and a bucket from Home Depot at Gallery Place. I attached a video that i shot on the train tonight of the dancers. When they finished they ran around the cart and said “If you enjoyed our show please let the bucket know”.