A van drove down Clarendon Blvd while I was waiting to cross the street, and its driver beeped at me and nodded his head like he was checking me out. It was too easy to identify his employer, Banana Banner (http://www.bananabanner.com/) since his van was covered in bananas and it had a license plate that […]
Last Saturday morning I was walking home from the Farmers Market at 14th and U. Right outside the the McDonald’s on 14th and U a man says, “hey there, you are beautiful.” I’m not in the mood to deal with it so I decide to ignore him and keep walking. He continues to yell after […]
I was walking to my bus stop after attending the HollaBack DC picnic. There is a group of men that always congregate at the north end of the park, right by the intersection of 16th & Euclid. I often avoid that spot, but had no choice but to walk by it that day. I walked […]
I was walking down P street from Dupont heading to the grocery store. I saw the man sitting on the stairs of a house near the bus stop, and I just got that feeling – he’s gonna say something. Sure enough, he wolf-whistled and said, “Hey Sexy.” Without stopping, I said, loudly and harshly, “That’s […]
On Sunday afternoon I was coming out of the Farragut West metro, and a young man approached me saying he was trying to fund raise for The Boys and Girls Club. I didn’t believe that he was really doing that, and I told him I didn’t have any money with me, sorry. At that point […]