TECHNOLOGY CHANGES SO FAST …
On a runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, a teenager in a center seat snapped a photo with his iPhone out of the plane’s small window. He rotated his phone to get a landscape shot. Then he did it again — and again. And again and again.
The man in the window seat, whom the teen had now been leaning over for several minutes, had little sympathy left for the budding Annie Leibovitz.
“I don’t care how badly you need a picture for that Facebook,” he said. “Put that phone near my face again, and you’re going to lose it.”
To which the teen replied, “It’s for Instagram.”
IF ONLY SHE’D LISTENED
A woman drove down a busy street in north Capitol Hill with an unwanted passenger on the top of her car. It was a coffee concoction — and it had a lot of foam.
So naturally, a heroic-feeling onlooker ran toward her car to warn her about the ticking time bomb atop her vehicle.
For reasons unknown, the man frantically waving his arms only scared the driver, who pressed down on the gas pedal and furiously sped away.
Moments later, the drink splattered across her windshield and down the hood of her car. The man then turned and walked the other way, shaking his head over the good deed gone bad.
DANCE-CRAZED
Commuters aboard the Red Line toward Glenmont were receiving a free show from a talented hip-hop dancer practicing his latest routine near the doors of the train car.
The dancer was in the zone. His headphones were on, and he had no thought as to the limited amount of space in the car.
One unfortunate woman got too close trying to record the dancer on her iPhone and received a swift punch to the face after an ill-fated spin move by the man.
The dancer stopped briefly to apologize to the woman but quickly resumed dancing — almost without skipping a beat.
GOT A LIGHT?
A District man wanted to spend his lunch hour surprising his sweetheart on her birthday, and decided he would be best received if he arrived with cake.
But after buying a slice from Starbucks, he was hard-pressed to find anyone with a lighter. Oddly enough, he had easily found a stranger with a candle to donate to the cake.
Finally, a group of young German men supplied the flame. The birthday girl was delighted, although surprised her paramour had found a candle on the streets of D.C.
“It’s actually much crazier that I found a lighter,” he said. “Thank God for Germans. No one around here smokes.”
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