“Dear PoPville,
While getting Thai tonight, I found myself warning my husband to check the website before tipping, as I hate surprise fees (and we recently accidentally tipped 20% on a bill with a 20% gratuity already included…) (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
A bunch of these signs just popped up on I St SW. What do they mean? Bikes don’t have speedometers, is this actually useful??”
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“Dear PoPville,
I’m looking for any witnesses or individuals who live in the area who may have video of the hit and run I was involved in late Sunday afternoon 7/23. Crash occurred on 11 St NW and Spring Rd NW where a woman sped down the wrong way of 11 Street (more…)
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“Dear PoPville,
I just moved to Kalorama and there is a man who has a megaphone rigged up on 23rd and Bancroft every day and I see him at 6:45 AM when I go to work and 7 PM when I return blasting what sounds like (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
So, my husband and I went to brunch on Sunday and got a nasty surprise walking home. Jackie O’s has a delicious-sounding “unlimited” cocktail service for two hours. Since I’ve heard great things about the four cocktails in the deal, we decided to go for it. The unlimited cocktails cost $55, so pricey, but I figured 4 each would break even. (more…)
Update from CM Parker:
“The 45/15 minute swimming rule is a new citywide policy following the near-drowning incident last week in Ft Lincoln. I’m told the policy is being implemented out of caution to make sure swimmers are safe.”
“Dear PoPville,
It looks like DPR has instituted a new policy at both indoor and outdoor pools to call a roughly (sometimes longer) “safety break” where all patrons have to exit the pool – even lap swimmers. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I did my required car inspection two days ago at 1PM. After I finished the inspection I went online to pay for it before my inspection expires on Jul 20th. The site has been down, saying it will go back online the next morning.
When I checked the next morning, Jul 19th it said it will be back that evening by 6pm.
This keeps on happening again and again. Not only does the site stay down, they keep changing not only the time it will be back online but the time it went down! Basically, they are lying the site has only been down since yesterday, where it has been down for at least 2 days.
The problem is that now that my inspection expired and I haven’t paid for the new one I will get charged with penalty fees – $20 per day. And there’s nothing I can do about it! The site is down, obviously someone fked up or did something terribly wrong because their original estimation of yesterday is far off and it’s still down, and they just blantly lie about the downtime.
This is from yesterday: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I have a question about the compost pilot program. We were accepted at my house for the pilot and received the welcome pack in the mail. But, (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Someone at Chaplin’s parks his very large Mercedes SUV in the same tow away zone located directly in front of the main entrance at the corner of 9th and P St, NW every time they visit and/or is working at the location. They are not loading/unloading; rather they park there the entire day. The place where they park is clearly marked as NO STANDING OR PARKING ANYTIME, yet every time I pass the restaurant, the same black SUV that belongs to them is illegally parked and to the best of my knowledge, has not received a ticket or been towed for parking illegally. This illegal parking creates a potentially dangerous situation should emergency vehicles like fire and/or EMS need to access Chaplin’s or the surrounding structures. (more…)
Not a question I ever thought I’d see… All those snakes, hawks, foxes, owls etc. must be working overtime?
“Dear PoPville,
Where did the rats go this summer?
I live next to Kalorama Park (where I am a park volunteer for 30 years now). I walk 3 1/2 miles a day in & around Adams Morgan & have seen virtually ZERO rats. (more…)