CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN
A woman asked her husband if he’d like to go see the Michael Jackson Cirque du Soleil show at the Verizon Center.
“What’s Cirque du Soleil?” he asked. “A circus?”
“Kinda sorta,” the wife responded. “They do twirly stuff and dance around and jump and stuff. Acrobatics set to the music of MJ.”
“So no elephants?” the husband inquired.
“No, no elephants.”
She managed to convince him to attend, and while they waited for a train after the show, she asked him what he thought.
“It was cool, but I didn’t really get what some of it had to do with Michael Jackson,” he mused. “And most of what they did was just dance around. I could do that.”
RESPECT THE HAND
A chronic jaywalker headed toward 17th Street on K Street after leaving the Farragut North station Monday morning.
The time to cross the street was ticking down. But no matter — the light would stay green for at least another 15 seconds. Plenty of time to get across 17th before the light turned red.
Too bad she didn’t notice the police officer standing there.
“Miss, you can’t walk. The crosswalk hand is red. That means you can’t walk.”
Oops.
“I’ll give you a warning this time,” he continued.
“Busted,” she sheepishly said to the other pedestrians gathering around her, as they all waited another 45 seconds to cross the street.
CAMPAIGN SEASON
Summer traffic is typically lighter on I-66, but Monday saw a big backup inside the Beltway, even at 6 a.m.
No, there wasn’t a wreck or lost deer dodging frustrated commuters. Shocking drivers was a sheet hung on an overpass near the Glebe Road exit that showed Obama as Hitler beside the words “Dictator-in-chief.” It was done by the Obama hate group infowars.com.
Typically, American flags and high school sports booster signs are hung on the overpass, so the political message seemed jarring to some commuters, who shook their heads in anger when passing under the anti-Obama sign before stepping on the gas.
METRO TRIFECTA
As a Silver Spring man walked to that Metro station on Saturday, he knew he was in for a tough trip over to the Braddock Road station in Alexandria, thanks to rail service being shut down between that station and Pentagon City because of track work.
But things quickly got worse. Arriving at the Silver Spring station, he was reminded that single-tracking was underway on his part of the Red Line, meaning even more delays. And the platform wasn’t promising: a growing crowd and no trains in either direction.
And then came the coup de grace: an announcement came over the loudspeaker that 11 trains were halted system-wide because of computer problems.
Nothing to do but stand, sweat and wait, and a trip that typically takes an hour took more than twice that long.
What’s next Metro, he thought. Swarms of locusts?
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