For Fun: How You Know You've Become a Washingtonian

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Real Washingtonians remember when life used to be awesome and Jack Kent Cooke’s wife was arrested drunk and on the hood of a Jaguar driving down M street pounding on the windshield. Then threw her gold pumps at the police.

People led more exciting lives back then

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Anonymous wrote:Zoned cab fares! they were the worst.

When we first moved here, I was in awe of my sister-in-law's knowledge of those zones. She always knew exactly how many blocks, and in which direction, you needed to walk on either end of your trip in order to stay within a single zone.

I think I finally mastered the ones in the areas we frequented right about the time they phased them out.

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Anonymous wrote:I knew I became a Washingtonian when I visited my Midwestern family and everyone started hating me after a 5 minute conversation.

Try being from Alabama. They act like you live on another planet.

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Anonymous wrote:You stand right, walk left everywhere. Doesn't matter what city or country, that is ingrained in you.

I literally right side walked around a left stander on the metro escalator just now. We were both dressed for the office.

And yesterday someone asked the bus driver to open the door instead of pressing the stop request button exactly an inch from her hand.

Common sense does not seem to transplant easily.

My hometown didn't really have a bus system, so I'd never ridden a bus of any kind, even a school bus. The first time I tried to take the the circulator bus in college, I circled the campus twice before I finally got off at some random stop and walked. I didn't think to ask anyone why it didn't stop at my stop, just figured I'd read the map wrong or something.

I was venting to a friend about the stupid bus that didn't stop where it was supposed to, and she said, "You pulled the cord to signal for the stop, and they still didn't stop?" I'm sure the look on my face was priceless.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember Avignon Freres in Adams Morgan?

I don't but I do remember a BBQ place in Adams Morgan, we used to drive over from Va to get some ribs and potato salad and cornbread, always to go because there was no place to eat there, and then we would take it down to Rock Creek Park and eat it on a picnic table. Can't remember the name of it, this was in the '80s.

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Watching News on the treadmill at the gym!

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Concerts at Carter Barron, crab imperial at Market Inn down by the SW freeway, rum buns at Hogates, George Michael's Sports Machine as local TV sports show (and Jim Vance, Doug Ryan, and the rest of the channel 4 team). Waiting and waiting and waiting for a restroom stall at pre-renovation Arena stage.

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When you can look on your birth certificate and it says Washington, DC

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been here 15 years and intend to grow old here. Regarding the shopping - happy to say that Mazza Gallery will be redeveloped into mixed use, still some retail but mostly housing. And Georgetown doesn’t seem terrible to shop in? There are some good shops and l prefer it to a mall. Downtown is just sad though. I worked by Gallery Place before COVID and there were places to shop at lunch and after work but it’s been decimated.

Mazza Gallerie, for the love!

The McDonald’s was bizarre

if you were teen here you'd be hanging out at the disc shop and mcdonalds every weekend or drinking beer in any number of parks....

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Anonymous wrote:14th street was where the prostitutes hung out.

I was just going to say.. you remember that 14th st in the 80’s was considered a dangerous place to be…

You find yourself saying on multiple occasions- “the DC food scene is so much better than it was ten years ago.”

Same with Thomas Cirlce area, you were risking your life!

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Anonymous wrote:Zoned cab fares! they were the worst.

Omg that is a blast from the last! Wtf was up with that?!?

Diamond Cab was always the best, most responsive...

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you were grandfathered in when DC changed the legal drinking age to 21

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This all just says how old you are.

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Anonymous wrote:This all just says how old you are.

So how do you identify with the place in which you were born then? Hmmmmm? Too much mumbo sauce for you?

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If you're an actual Washingtonian ....

You remember, and used to go to the original Commander Salamander

You used to listen to Weasel, and attended at least one HFStival