A fine line between giving things away for free and having people pick up your trash?
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Photo by PoPville flickr user allengcarr
“Dear PoP,
There are many newcomers to the area who have a different way of designating street destinations than us native Washingtonians. I’m frequently hearing people say, “T at 18”, or “W at 13.” As a native, for some silly reason, this drives me crazy. I’m used to hearing people say, “17th & U” or “13 & T,” where the numbered street is always spoken first. Now people (and I’ve heard a number of newscasters and newspaper writers do this as well) are putting the letter street first – what’s up with that?
I can always tell if a person is a native by the way they designate the street locations during a conversation. What do you think of this as a light-hearted topic of discussion?”
I think we may have spoke about this at one point when I made this very mistake. I am 99.9% confident that it is always number first and letter second. For some reason when I’m talking to someone I always say the number first but when I’m typing I tend to want to write the letter or name first… What do you guys think? If you use the letter first is that a good tip off that you’re talking to a new resident?
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Or do others find the above sight terrifying as well?
Fortunately this porch decoration from not too far away calmed me down:
“Dear PoP,
Saw this in front of the P Street Whole Foods: a newspaper box for the Grand Forks (North Dakota) Herald. I wonder why…”
They have a really good sports section?
I know reusable slurpee straws are ultimately a good thing for the environment and all but I can’t help but think this is also a terrible, terrible sign…
You have a copper-sided garage. I believe this is around Glover Park.
At first I was just checking out a carriage house in a Bloomingdale Alley but then I stumbled upon this sight. Perhaps this could be the craziest caption contest ever? Notice the flamingo there in the bottom left corner as well…
If this inspires any crazy captions I’ll be glad to pick a bonus winner for this week.
I know these are the most traditional but I think they look freaking awesome (from Bloomingdale).
This episode features a corduroy sun hat.
Sometimes I don’t hydrate enough, especially on a hot day like Sunday and I end up having to do a triple take. I usually walk about 20 feet past and then I say to myself, “wait a sec, is that a dragon in the window?”
Is the pull cord a dragon too?”
Sometimes I’m right and sometimes I completely hallucinate. Either way I always immediately rehydrate. In this case with a Slush Puppie of course (though blue raspberry is far superior to orange Mango I got from the gas station at 15th and U Streets, NW):
