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September 22, 2004
My Field Trip
HI FROM OCEAN CITY!
Ha, gotcha didn't I?
So guess where lil ol 10101 go to go today. Hint: House. White. THAT'S RIGHT you Einsteins! I went to the White House! Me and 149 other Lockheed ppl went to knock on Dubya's door. If you'll remember, I've been to see the White House before with Stepho--but it was very anticlimactic. This time it was different--I got to go inside.
So I've been here in for a little more than 4 months. I'm STILL having trouble with the beloved Metro. Gosh, I hate it how I ALWAYS look like a tourist when I go into the city. Two mistakes today:
1) I have a SmarTrip card that automatically deducts money from my account--makes things go faster--OR SO I THOUGHT! Here I am walking nochallontly to the entrance gates. I'm cool, I've been living here for a while--I mean, I DO have a SmarTrip card...heh heh.... I take out my card and wave it at the gate--it doesn't open for me. I wave it again--doesn't open. [Starting to get red.] A station guard comes over and points me to a disk located on the side of the gate (labeled "place SMARTRIP card here"). [Now beet red.] "Ohh, thanks," I say. In my defense, I went through the handicap entrance and in all other regular gates, the SmarTrip disk is located where I originally waved my card!
2) I think I might have skipped out on my Metro payment to White House. I was waiting in line to exit the gates at the Federal Triangle stop with a few other Lockheed people. Once again, I pull out my trusty "I'm a local" SmarTrip card. The guy in front of me sticks his ticket in (Ha! Puuulease, he has to use a TICKET? Definately a tourist, psshhh). Before waiting for the gate to close, I wave my card (in the CORRECT place) and walked through. I hear a piercing beep. Was I supposed to let the gates close first before waving my card??? Did I just ride the Metro without paying??? Am I a FELON??!!! I was so conscious about where to place my card, that screwed up again! Needless to say, I took off.
Oh wait, one more mistake.
3) When I got back to the Springfield station parking garage, guess what was on my car.... JUST GUESS...a TICKET! Ha! My state inspection ticket expired just last month. These cops are RUTHLESS here!
Hahaha, the point of my entry today was to talk about my White House trip. So here's my take: It was anticlimactic again!! What's up with the Casa Blanca and it's disappointments? We only got to see a small portion of the house--none of the West Wing. All the rooms were beautiful and the history was great--but I wanted to see more. I thought there would be a guide--but it was all self-guided. Just in case you care, my favorite room is the Green Room.
No pictures this time--but I did add a quiz to the right.
Posted by Jennafi at September 22, 2004 03:03 PM
Comments
wow, you're site's just getting cooler and cooler.
and yeah, newb, you gotta mind the gap!
Posted by: aaron at September 22, 2004 05:33 PM
come back to stl and practice on the metrolink...heh
Posted by: at September 23, 2004 12:27 AM
haha, i think i am worse than you. i've been here for a little over a year and rode the metro my 3rd time last weekend. i don't even try to pretend i'm a local. in fact, last sunday i bought a smart trip card thinking i'd need it to exit the garage...but little did i realize it was SUNDAY! what a waste of $10. now i got a smart trip card and no use for it...oh well, makes for a great collectors item to go with my 3,000 other supermarket cards :)
Posted by: ed at September 23, 2004 08:34 AM
You didn't pay your metro fair?!?! there goes your secret clearance! now you're gonna have to move back home..and then I'm gonna go back to being the worst basketball player wednesday nights....
Posted by: Glen at September 23, 2004 04:45 PM
you felon. and as for attacking aliens, just kick it in the nuts and run.
Posted by: andy at September 23, 2004 06:09 PM
do you know if there is any more swiss army sales? :(
Posted by: jlu at September 23, 2004 07:22 PM
texas holdem In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
Posted by: texas holdem at September 9, 2005 06:47 PM