I miss DC Circa 2000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't in DC during my early 20s (I was in NYC), but I relate to the nostalgia for being young, wild, & free in the city

If you went back now, what would you do differently? Aside from getting a better haircut, I think I would probably date/hook up more. I was kind of puritanical about it for no real reason

These are my thoughts exactly. Why was I so busy looking for a husband?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't in DC during my early 20s (I was in NYC), but I relate to the nostalgia for being young, wild, & free in the city

If you went back now, what would you do differently? Aside from getting a better haircut, I think I would probably date/hook up more. I was kind of puritanical about it for no real reason

These are my thoughts exactly. Why was I so busy looking for a husband?

Who looks for a husband in their 20s? I was living at home with my parents still

[Anonymous]

There was a nice bartender named Soup, maybe at Madhatter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't in DC during my early 20s (I was in NYC), but I relate to the nostalgia for being young, wild, & free in the city

If you went back now, what would you do differently? Aside from getting a better haircut, I think I would probably date/hook up more. I was kind of puritanical about it for no real reason

These are my thoughts exactly. Why was I so busy looking for a husband?

PP - exactly. I was looking for a husband and worried guys wouldn't think of me as wife material if I was playing the field. I didn't need to be looking for a husband at 22 and also, my husband wouldn't have cared

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Julia's Empanadas

My one and only source of food poisoning. 2002.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My life was so easy then. I was 22. I lived in a studio apartment on 16th Street near Mount Pleasant, before it got gentrified.
I worked in Tenleytown and would often stop at Guapos to do takeout -- a hefty styro container of chile relleno smothered with shredded lettuce and a heaping plop of sour cream.
I worked out at the gym nearby too and shopped at Fresh Fields.

On weekends, we'd go dancing at Rumors or maybe Chief Ike's Mambo. Late night empanadas from Julie's, was the name?

Life was so simple.

Aren't you disgusted by the amount of environmental waste you caused by all those stryo containers? Gross.

This quote makes me think "wow, I wish your mom and dad had been more concerned about the environmental damage of reproducing and chosen not to have you."

The 20 something and all their angst and trauma are definitely not having as much fun as we did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear you. I was a wild child in the mid-aughts, worked in restaurants, had zero obligations and just had a good time. DC was slower paced and more provincial then.

Things change.

No, DC was not slower paced and more provincial then. You just had fewer responsibilities, etc. YOUR life was slower paced.

DC hasn't been "more provincial" since the early 90s. That was probably the last time traffic didn't suck, too.

YMMV. I grew up here and have seen the city change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a nice bartender named Soup, maybe at Madhatter?

He definitely worked at the Front Page and maybe sign off the whale. I helped him move out of his apartment. He was awesome. That takes me back.

[Anonymous]

Life was better pre 9/11 for sure.

[Anonymous]

I got here in the early 1990s and spent those years running wild at night and gentrifying Adams Morgan, DuPont, and Logan Circle by day. So much fun and so much money. Now I am an old codger with a huge multi-million dollar house and great memories of great joints that are no more. Ah, to have one more at the 21st Amendment! Or the Crow Bar!

[Anonymous]

I moss being 22-28 and carefree. I dont think it would have mattered what city i was in.

[Anonymous]

OK but did you do karaoke at Guapos like we did? I guess that was still college times.

[Anonymous]

I had a collection of going-out tops and designer jeans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK but did you do karaoke at Guapos like we did? I guess that was still college times.

Yes, in like 2005

[Anonymous]

Some places have gentrified but some have gone backwards. For one thing, I remember union station being a lot nicer and B Smith's.