How do you tell a DC native from a transplant?
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Anonymous
| You remember Flight 90 |
Anonymous
Still do! |
Anonymous
| Transplants think that living in upper NW is city living and more sophisticated than living 0.25 miles inside Maryland in an identical house. |
Anonymous
Yes. And the first fatal Metro crash on the same day. The city was paralyzed. I had an uncle in his carpool on the bridge when the plane hit. My father was taking the metro. It was a terrible day. Oh, and we absolutely called it Washington and mostly referred to the whole area as Washington. The only-the-city-counts snobbery came later. — early GenX native |
Anonymous
No $h!t. The point is obviously that if you know anything about the area and are not a recent transplant, you are not calling it Langley. Natives do know a thing or two outside of the lines of the District itself. |
Anonymous
+1 to this. And it came with a wave of transplants who then stayed long enough to consider themselves native. |
Anonymous
I agree. The nasty ones are not originally from DC. They moved here for work in their 20s from some small flyover town and they have a huge effin' chip on their shoulder. The true natives are friendly, nothing to prove. |
Anonymous
Whoops! I actually meant Olsson's! Not sure why I wrote Kramerbooks, anyhow I used to work with one of the Olssons at my little part time job in White Flint Mall. I thought she was so cool 
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Anonymous
Huh? My family back generations and my relative who actually worked there definitely referred to it as Langley. Bonus trivia: Tysons mall was originally a single story, with CIA contractor offices upstairs. |
Anonymous
^^^ not a native |
Anonymous
This is good. |
Anonymous
Usually the Columbia Hospital for Women - 5th generation both sides |
Anonymous
| Columbia Hospital for Women failed to secure an anesthesiologist for the birth of my first child during a power outage that lasted most of the night of DD’s birth. The nurse tried to convince me that the three hour birthing class (where we learned to say “hee hee hoo hoo” a lot ) fully prepared me for what was to come. Non-native but guessing many natives experienced similar levels of pain at that peculiar place. |
Anonymous
While muttering that it used to be much easier - with more roads open - to cut through the g*d d+mn park. |
Anonymous
Woodward & Lothrop aka Woody’s! And was there a store called Hong Kong? |