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I am a student at American University, and one afternoon, I was running with some friends on Wisconsin Avenue NW. In-between Veazey Street NW and Van Ness Street NW, a man walking by lunged at me, and seemed to try to grab me around the hips with his arms. I quickly jumped away from him, […]

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 […]

I was walking home to my apartment which is two blocks from the Clarendon metro station when I passed the Clarendon Grill. A vaguely drunk guy grabbed my arm, wrenched me back towards him, and began painstakingly reciting his phone number at me. Fortunately, part of what I love about living where I do is […]