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It was Friday and 5:00 couldn’t come soon enough. Work got too overwhelming so I decided to step away from my desk for a little bit and go for a walk to collect myself. I get in the elevator, eager to get outside, and it stops to pick up a man on a lower floor. […]

Every now and then I will make a trip out from VA to DC to visit my best friend Ashley, who lives in the NW region of DC. I was in the city for the fourth of July weekend, and the incident happened on Sunday, July 3rd. We had plans to pick up a friend […]

I was walking to the U street area when I was passed by a couple of pre-teen neighborhood boys. One of them yelled out “Tig Ol’ Bitties” as I passed them. Almost as soon as it had left his mouth, the kid next to him yelled “Why would you say that?!” and repeated it when […]

Last night (June 27) I was at the CVS on Columbia Pike in Arlington near the Drafthouse about 7:30. While I was in there, I noticed a WMATA employee wearing one of those bright yellow/orange vests staring at the woman in line in front of me waiting to check out. I didn’t pay it much […]

Today I was walking home from my class in Downtown Silver Spring around 2 in the afternoon. As I was crossing Spring Street, walking down 2nd Avenue, a man in a car stopped at the intersection leaned out his car window and said “You look nice today”. This is definitely not the worst comment I’ve […]