Date: 18 June 2007 Location: Blue Line, toward Franconia-Springfield It’s been a while. I thought that today as I stepped on the Metro for the first time in 9 months. Sure, I’ve taken short jaunts on public transportation, both bus and Metro, in the last 9 months. But not as a commuter. I had many pleasant surprises. First, the same friendly man was passing out Express newspapers at the Potomac [...]

For those readers who’ve been following my Metro travels, you know I coin a new term for each odd Metro-goer that I run across. But there are some that simply defy description. I will call those randomius strangeus. They are the strange and random people that suddenly pop in your life, do something EXTREMELY STRANGE and then pop out. This happened to me the other day. I was sitting, of [...]

I’m sitting on an orange seat, on the Orange Line, eating an orange. I know you’re not supposed to eat on the Metro but what are they going to do, arrest me? Ah, they do arrest people who eat on the Metro–never mind. So, I was eating my orange and locked eyes with a hobo. An hobo homunculus. He was riding the metro (sitting on a yellow seat, mind you) [...]

Location: PBS Line, toward Documentary. The flourescent lights shiver as the predator swishes its way through the crowds of prey. Its brown, white, and black camouflage serve it well, enabling it to hide throughly. The hard concrete ground below it is unyielding as the predator prowls past an ancient, shuffling specimen. It turns up its nose and continues on. Ah! It detects an opening in the teeming masses of prey! [...]

Location: Orange Line, toward New Carrollton. Ok, today is the time to talk about fatty twoseaters. As non-politcally-correct as it may be for me to say this, but these large denizens of the Metro do exist–and will, on occasion, forcefully remind you of this fact. I feel I must preface this entry with some further words about obesity. “In 1962, research statistics showed that the percentage of obesity in America’s [...]

Date: 11/27/2005 Location: 4/5 toward Grand Central Station. Yes, you read that right. Today, my topic is not about Washington DC’s beloved (or not so beloved) Metro system. Instead, I will be writing about it’s wrinkled older brother—the New York City Subway. The folks in New York City opened their subway system in 1904. Back then, it was called the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT). In addition, they also had an [...]

Date: 10/20/2005 Location: L2 Bus, Toward Adams Morgan. I had my monthly book club meeting today. However, like the idiot that I am, I did not “plan ahead” and wear appropriate shoes for walking semi-long distances. The meeting was being held at Tryst in Adams Morgan. This is where my journey in bus hell begins. You see, I’m a regular metrorail rider, not a regular metrobus rider. My trusty friend [...]

Date: 10/17/2005 Location: Orange Line, toward New Carollton. Alright, after a long day of work (which, for me, entails in working with Mac OS X, Adobe, and various IT functions) I’m galumphing down to the Metro. I join the long ranks of soulless Metro travellers, in their dim browns, greys, and blacks. Nary a bright color is to be seen, except for the occasional bottle blonde. I’m getting in the [...]

Date: 10/1/2005 Location: Crazy Line, toward Sanity. Indecision strikes me down Surrounded by its whispering blow I know not which to go, That of the above or below You may say, just decide. Certainty is danger Direction is paradise Leave me by the side Consummation, action Walking forward Certainty and Direction By my side, forever.

Date: 9/21/2005 Location: Orange Line, toward Vienna. Ok, I have a new beef today: People who cut you off. When I look back at all the blog entries I’ve written, the topic of this one is the one that pisses me off the most. Today, a nicely dressed man cut me off. While looking at me in the eye. We Metro denizens and riders have a complex etiquette system that [...]