I posted an item titled “Don’t miss commuting on the Metro one bit” here four years ago today. (It was lifted from tequila mockingbird which seems to have stopped blogging in 2007.)
If you’ve ever commuted via mass transit I think you’ll be amused.
For my part, I thought getting a free parking place at my federal office building was about the best thing that ever happened, and environment be damned I never took the Metro to work again.
The only problem I ever had parking at work was once when I didn’t realize what the guards were saying and I attempted to pull into the garage by cutting off Secretary of State Albright’s town car and chase vehicle.
I saw more than one local publication asking Inauguration visitors to remember to “stand right, walk left” on the Metro escalators. Good advice, in the DC area, if you wish to remain upright.
The commute was a complete fiasco this morning, too. Ice everywhere thanks to the 2 inches of snow that fell yesterday, coupled with the 8 hour “freezing rain” storm last night.
Smoke on the tracks at Bethesda basically shut down the Red Line (I actually finished the paper before arriving at work for once while waiting for a train at Woodley Park) and I hear the Orange Line was a disaster as well.
Here (Arizona now) we actually tried to pass an ordinance requiring official buildings (like those with metal detectors) have gun safes in the lobby so we wouldn’t be nekkid on the way from the parking lot.
It’s a good thing you didn’t cut off Secretary Powell or Rice. You’d probably be in Guantanamo Bay right now.