What is your DMV specific “sin” that would get you a scarlet letter?

[Anonymous]

Oh, I replied earlier but thought of another sin. We love Disney World and (even worse!) we love Disney Cruises.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling the DC area "DMV."

Does that bother anyone beyond dcum?

Yes. Most of us DC natives — but it sure makes it easier to identify the transplants and the transients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was that one time that I stood on the left for a minute before I caught myself.

You are absolved, my child. Go forth and sin no more.

Thank you! lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was that one time that I stood on the left for a minute before I caught myself.

You are absolved, my child. Go forth and sin no more.

No penance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was that one time that I stood on the left for a minute before I caught myself.

You are absolved, my child. Go forth and sin no more.

No penance?

Thou shalt walk up the Friendship Heights escalator steps three times while humming Chuck Brown.

[Anonymous]

I'm fat, my hair is frizzy, and I don't like designer labels on anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live 8 miles outside the city and when I travel to other parts of the world and someone asks where I’m from, I say “DC”. Because in every other city in the country, that’s the way it is and I won’t cater to DC weirdness about it .

But you live in a whole different state, not a different city. I don’t get what’s so hard about saying - I’m from Maryland. Or - I’m from Virginia.

[Anonymous]

My son graduated from an HBCU, and not Howard, Morehouse, or any of the popular ones. My other son is not going to college.

I wish most of the people that posted on this site were actually born/raised here.

I dislike when people that don’t live in DC say they live here.

I hate going into MD and VA and avoid it as much as possible.

I didn’t graduate college.

[Anonymous]

My list of sins are many.

- My family and I hate beach vacations and cruises.
- I don't send my kids to sleep away camps.
- We will never buy a vacation home. Having real-estate that I don't live in is hard to manage and I don't care about it.
- I love our DMV inexpensive (relatively) town.
- I love my neighborhood and my neighbors. They are my family.
- I don't envy anyone who works in big law.
- I am a-ok with my extreme right and extreme left relatives. I don't sweat it.
- I like to host. I like to raise the bar in my hosting so that others don't even dare to suggest that they will host. I would rather do it my way and have everyone at my house. I would rather that people don't reciprocate.
- I don't do potlucks.
- I am SAHM in a DCUM middle class household. I feel super rich in 300K HHI. I will never go back to work. I don't care what everyone thinks about it. No guilt in "taking someone else's space" for my multiple college degrees.
- I have a curated part-time domestic staff for my convenience. I feel great spending money for service.
- I am never a part of meal trains. I will cook for people happily but I cannot be part of a roster system. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I offered Mountain Dew to some of your kids at my son’s fifth grade birthday party. They accepted of course. One had never had any kind of soda before, a few others had only previously had sprite.

You’re welcome

I have always insisted that parents and siblings accompany their kid at any ES birthday I have hosted. I will pay parents to babysit and monitor their child in food and beverages. I don't mind how much extra it costs me. So, if any kid had any soda at my parties - their parents served it. Thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

I don’t drink coffee but I like soda.

[Anonymous]

When we travel and people ask where we are from, DH says DC. He does work there but ...

I say Arlington and they blank then say oh the cemetery ....

I get DH's pointl

[Anonymous]

I refer to National Airport as Reagan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling the DC area "DMV."

It would be a sin to sneer at calling it the DMV.

You must be a transplant.

4th generation from DC and I don’t call it the DMV and get annoyed at those who do.

+1000

No greater sign of someone being a transplant than calling the region "DMV."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling the DC area "DMV."

Does that bother anyone beyond dcum?

It bothers anyone actually from the DC area, on the internet and in real life.