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.

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."

I refer to National Airport as Reagan

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

I don’t drink coffee but I like soda.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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