I went to the Georgetown Barnes & Noble, on M Street, with my boyfriend. We split up when we got upstairs – he went to look at fiction novels, I stayed to flip through design books. I noticed a man sitting in a chair, facing the aisle that I was looking through, but didn’t think […]
I’ve been harassed on the street many times since moving to DC this fall, but one incident that sticks out in my mind happened in front of the Chop’t restaurant on 12th St. near the intersection with H. It was in September, I had just gotten a salad at Chop’t and had taken it outside […]
A post we received over the holiday break: I decided to take a different tactic in handling one of the “hey, baby” homeless guys outside. My normal response is to get angry and curse, but my new method had very different results. One of the homeless men sitting on the street said “Hey, baby, happy […]
This may sound silly to people, but this makes me uncomfortable. There’s this driver of the 38B that goes through Georgetown around 5:40 in the evenings, and when we board the bus, he completely ignores everyone else but says “Hi, howya doin’?” to me. Then he stares at me a little too long for my […]
I was crossing the street, and this red and white cement truck was beeping like crazy. I knew the beeps were directed at me since the truck was at a red light and there was no significant traffic. “BEEEEP!” I hear. I ignore it. “BEEP! BEEP! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!” I continue to ignore it. I got stuck […]