Comments on: Not a Good Red Line Day http://dc.metblogs.com/2007/10/22/not-a-good-red-line-day/ Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: poo poo http://dc.metblogs.com/2007/10/22/not-a-good-red-line-day/comment-page-1/#comment-12355 poo poo Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:42:21 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2007/10/22/not-a-good-red-line-day/#comment-12355 yeah, i hit chinatown at about 5:30. WOW! the platform was packed! anyone wanting to take the metro *had* to deal with the crowds, and i opted to hang out for the next train. it was pretty clear that the one coming down the track as i arrived was NOT going to be a viable option. so i waited. and got closer to the track as each train passed by.... the interesting thing was the way that folks tended to bond. there was one guy telling a lady next to him that she should back away from the tracks, because in DC, we don't have heroes like the guy in n.y. that rescued the person that fell into the lines. she laughed, and said that it was funny, because new yorkers are generally so rude! another guy instigated conversation with the dude next to him. he was moaning about how he didn't have time or the space to take off his sweatshirt and was dying of heat! the other guy offered to help him take it off, and he did. sweatshit boy wouldn't stop thanking him until we got to union station. so... lame as it was, there were some little glimmers of "hope for humanity" on the dc metro. you just have to look for 'em...... yeah, i hit chinatown at about 5:30. WOW! the platform was packed! anyone wanting to take the metro *had* to deal with the crowds, and i opted to hang out for the next train. it was pretty clear that the one coming down the track as i arrived was NOT going to be a viable option.

so i waited. and got closer to the track as each train passed by….

the interesting thing was the way that folks tended to bond. there was one guy telling a lady next to him that she should back away from the tracks, because in DC, we don’t have heroes like the guy in n.y. that rescued the person that fell into the lines. she laughed, and said that it was funny, because new yorkers are generally so rude!

another guy instigated conversation with the dude next to him. he was moaning about how he didn’t have time or the space to take off his sweatshirt and was dying of heat! the other guy offered to help him take it off, and he did. sweatshit boy wouldn’t stop thanking him until we got to union station.

so… lame as it was, there were some little glimmers of "hope for humanity" on the dc metro.

you just have to look for ‘em……

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