Thursday, November 18, 2004

Back In The Big City

Washington

Another day, another gruelling overnight bus journey, but at least this time I got some free entertainment worthy of a bad episode of Jerry Springer. During a stopover in Columbia I watched as a very fiery teenage girl with white trash aunt in tow began blaming the woman at the station for her missing her bus. It had something to do with buses leaving from the wrong gates, but none of that seemed to matter as the insults started flying. The Greyhound worker finished up by calling the girl a "fucking bitch" before her colleague sent her home to calm down. Whatever happened to 'the customer is always right?'

I went for a walk around the part of town with all the famous buildings this afternoon. Mingling with all the civil servants and tourists reminded me of Whitehall only the area's a bit more spread out here. There's a new walkway on Pennsylvania Avenue so you don't have to be in another postal district to see the White House, although it's nothing spectacular in itself. Much better is the Capitol, and walking slowly up the hill from the Washington Monument in the warm sunshine was a great way to pass the time. I've got a feeling this lovely weather won't last forever though.

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