I feel the serious need to address an observation: the people of DC need to live a little and ease up. They are as hard as rock and think those who look like them are strange animals as opposed to simply fellow homo sapiens!
What am I talking about?
A friend and I went on a bike ride on one of the many trails in DC. We went north from Georgetown to Bethesda on the Capital Cresent Trail and back. It was an absolutely beautiful sunny October day, but the people on the trail - runners, joggers, and bikers alike - had a stern and very serious look on their faces. We tried to smile and wave at some of them, but either didn't get a response or received an unfriendly gesture. I don't get these people on the East Coast! Or, is it simply the demographic we came across - mostly wealthy city folk who are too consumed by themselves?
Hopefully, someone who's more familiar with these DC types will read this and let me know what's up.
1 comment:
It seems to me that one of the major problems of urban life is that we are surrounded by strangers. We constantly interact with people we don't know, and this creates (or allows for) a little less kindness than we'd experience if we all knew our neighbors.
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