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Originally Posted by IUHoosiergirl88
Avoid at all costs: Ben's Chili Bowl pre-3 AM, standing on the left side of the metro escalators, DC taxicabs.
Walk left, stand right, and welcome to DC  |
During rush hour, generally closer to run left, walk right, but at least they understand if you are standing right.
If you stand left during rush hour you will get you run over and then Harry Reid, John Boehner, and nuns will spit on your corpse. (Of course the nuns were probably the ones who trampled you.
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Oddly enough another recommended place to "visit" is the trip *over* the Potomac on the subway between L'enfant (pronounced Launfaunt with *both* n's slightly nasalized) Plaza station and Pentagon station on the yellow line.
On that subject, the escalator at Wheaton Station (in Maryland on the east side of the Red Line) is the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere. Not that much worth seeing near the station, but if you are looking for off the beaten track, it is sort of interesting and inside the fare gates (and as long as you don't go through the fare gates you aren't charged).
Note, the maps that they have of the system in the cars and at the stations are *nowhere* *near being to scale. The stations downtown are blocks apart, the ones out in the suburbs a mile or more.
And the doors on the Metro trains are *nothing* like elevator doors. They don't spring back open if you put an arm in. If you are *lucky*, the train operators will reopen the doors so you can get your arm out, if unlucky, you've broken the doors and the train will have to offload everyone. (at that point the nuns in the above paragraph will come after you!
--KnightShadow
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