Here are some ways to determine if you’ve become a Washingtonian!
1) When you find excuses to get out of visiting your friends that live in Virginia.
2) When you refer to your home state as “the district”.
3) When you feel angered by someone standing on the left side of the escalator.
4) When you keep the one weird friend around because he or she has a car.
5) When you won’t go to H street because it’s “just too hard to get to”.
6) Ikea is no longer an excuse to visit Maryland.
7) When you’re on a first name basis with the neighborhood homeless person (RIP Pete).
8) When you learn how to avoid the clipboarders… “Can I ask you one question” – “No! Stranger Danger”
9) When you know where to stand for the metro doors open.
10) When you have figured out how to find a cab after hours in Adams Morgan.
11) When you can identify an intern by the inappropriate attire or the color of the badge they’re wearing.
12) When you refer to neighborhoods as “up and coming” or “gentrified”.
13) When you have paid more in parking tickets than your car payment/student loan.
14) When you can name the differences between DC cupcake stores.
15) When you hate people who ride bikes or segways.
16) When you base your morning commute on whether or not Congress is in session
17) When you don’t flinch at the bar tab, but you flinch at gas prices
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This list is so true!
This isn’t a DC list, this is a fuckin’ HIPSTER list! It should be called, “17 Ways To Know You’ve Become A HIPSTER!!!”
(Williamsburg is THAT way….)
I’m not a hipster and this is totally true!
The only way you stop being a hipster if you identify with this list is by being the FIRST hipster to admit to it!
(You’re only capable of change once you admit you have a problem)
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True DC’ers actually bike more than they drive though..
You are missing two other ways to know you are a Washingtonian:
1) To avoid possibly giving offense, you say, “Nice to see you” instead of “Nice to meet you,” even when you are 99% sure you have never met someone before.
2) Success at work is measured by your ability to plausibly say, “We had a good meeting”–even if nothing ever comes out of it.
This basically describes every big city..
This is a transplant’s list of what they think DC is about. As a native Washingtonian for 30 years, 99% of this list is what Capitol Hill summer interns think DC is. I mean, differences between cupcake stores? Give me a break.
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