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I was walking home from visiting a friend at her bartending job and had dropped most of my usual guard after making it through the madness of Adams Morgan. I heard a polite “excuse me” coming from a car that out of the corner of my eye seemed to be braking for a stop light. […]

I had just gotten off the 31 bus that stops at M St & Wisconsin Avenue and was making my way down Wisconsin to my office. Grace St is more like an alleyway and is one of the last streets before you reach the bottom of Wisconsin Ave. A large truck began to pull forward […]

One night last week, I was walking home from work and traffic was backed up on K Street. As I walked toward a car on the crosswork, the man in the car said “Mmm, I would like to taste that!” and licked his lips at me. I kept walking but I wish I had taken […]

This happened about five years ago, but reading the incessant requests to “SMILE” on this blog, I was reminded and had to share. I had just gotten out of the oral surgeon, two wisdom teeth lighter, and wads of cotton shoved into the bleeding holes, but I was still swallowing a bit of blood. But […]

When I’m on the street I put on my tunnel vision goggles. I don’t speak to or look at anyone. I just walk. So, when some jackass on the street whispers “nice tits” at me, (and notice my use of “at” instead of “to”) it doesn’t usually register until I’m too far away to “holla […]