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This is a continuation from a previous entry – http://hollabackdc.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/bewildered/ I was walking to the Dupont Metro after work again when I encountered the same guy that harassed me back in April. He was walking with another girl, holding the same binder he had showed me about the Boys & Girls Club. Once again he […]

A “Not In Service” bus filled with people approached the stop this morning (it had a bad sign), and a woman asked me which bus it was. As I answered her question (as best as I could since I was just as clueless as she was about it), I hear “Good morning.” I continue talking […]

I was walking off a late-night snack around 3:30 in the morning. There was a woman walking with a man right behind her. She kept turning around at him. I could tell that she didn’t want his attention. She was headed down Irving which is a very dimly lit street. At one point the woman […]

I was waiting for the light to change at 6th and D NW. I had my cell phone in my hand about to send a text. I see a car with two young men in it probably around 20 years old pull up to the red light. They notice me. I brace for it, look […]

A few weeks ago, I was walking home from Target and had to walk past the homeless shelter on Irving because they were doing construction on the sidewalk across the street. As I crossed Irving in the southern direction, a homeless, possibly crazy, man started screaming “BITCH” at me repeatedly as he followed me almost […]