Tonight I left my gym (13th and F NW) and hurried down the street to catch my bus home. I was walking and texting, and I noticed a uniformed guard standing outside a building up ahead. As I passed, he said loudly, “Hey yo, can I get a text too?” I kept my head down […]
Waiting for the bus. A gaptoothed older man looks me over, smirking; I keep reading the paper. “You married?” he asks. “No.” “You have children?” “No.” He nods, and then— “You’d have bigger breasts if you had children.” The 22A comes and he gets on it. “Eeeeey,” he says, moving to shake my hand before […]
I go to work very early in the morning, around 5 AM. I was waiting on the 23A when a car pulled over at the curb. This wasn’t really a surprise; the bars nearby often get deliveries or newspapers are changed at that hour. But this time a thirtyish man in jeans and a […]
I don’t think I qualify for this exactly, but I think the story should be told. A month ago I saw a perfectly respectable lady harassed by a man in his SUV. He was shouting at her, something about her red hair – which, by the way, was a red in the “normal” range of […]
I was walking back from a bar crawl with my roommate. It was a Saturday night — still early, around 10:00pm. We walked by a group of people whose party had spilled out onto their front porch. Usually large groups of loud, drunk men make me nervous, but I was with my friend and saw […]