Conversations to maybe NOT have on the bus

*my computer is being weird, so excuse the lack of apostrophes*

So on the way home today the guy sitting behind me on the bus was on the phone with someone, telling them about a visit to California where he met up with his father. In terms of things to overhear on the bus, this wasn't an entertaining overhear (see DCist, eavesdropDC), in fact it was ind of sad. Apparently he had dinner with his dad a few times in CA, ended up paying for dinner & giving his dad some money because his father was having trouble getting some social security checks. This is all well and good as a conversation, and not particularly notable, until he said, "Maybe if my dad had got our of jail and turned himself around..."

Whoa dude, your dad was in jail? And that's not the kind of personal information you'd be hesitant sharing out loud on the bus?

Then he said, "Maybe the social security problems are because of something that's held up from being in jail. I know he is out of probation in 3 out of 4 states, I'm not sure about Texas..."

At that point I almost stayed on the bus past my stop, the conversation was getting a little intriguing, and I honestly wanted to see if he would talk about HOW his dad ended up in jail and on probation in four states...

Not that this is funny, it was a pretty depressing conversation, but given that his dad was some sort of criminal (in the sense of criminal being a person who was in jail), here is this guy on the bus, who's talking about his grad program and his girlfriend-wife-fiances dissertation. So not a sketchy character talking about things like that.

It was just... WEIRD!

Thank You for Smoking

Oh wait, oh wait! According to this article on DCIST today http://www.dcist.com/archives/2006/03/31/enjoy_those_din_1.php the smoking ban did NOT get knocked down by congress, and Monday starts off a (bars & clubs excluded) smoke free DC!

Another Very Useful Thing, Courtesy of Dcist

http://www.dcist.com/map/

CYE

(The old Jim Larranaga burger was topped with whitefish, sable, capers, onions, and cream cheese, but Larranaga -- then known as "Larranaga David" -- reportedly objected when he realized that no one would order it.)
http://dcist.com/ (scroll down aways)


Hahaha.
And my favorite episode from last season was the passion of the christ/bra episode.

I've noticed...

I've noticed that if you go on DCist and play around with the blog links that a lot of DC sucks blogs show up. Now I'm not complaining because I still feel thatDC is a sucky city, but I wonder why so many other people feel the same way?? Does DC have any hope of redemption?