Tony’s Journal

Oh, another thing about this trip: On Saturday night, we (Justin, Aimee, Rosemary, John, Bridget, Wei, and others) went to some sports bar in Ballston. There were many plasma screens in the place, but the music was sync’ed up with the videos playing on one of the screens. This song came on — Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone by Cinderella — and John and I started singing it. Rosemary had never heard it, or so she claims. So we snag it to her, which annoyed her I think.

How could you live through the 80s and not know this song?

Anyway, photos are up. I didn’t take too many on this trip.

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What a great damned trip to DC/Baltimore I had this weekend. Rather than a long boring recap, I will just hit the highlights and tidbits of info I learned, conveniently bolded for your pleasure.

• Metro station operators are clairvoyant; they knew what was in Justin’s wallet without even looking at it.
• Every waitress at the IHOP in Ballston looks so goddamned the same.
• Just about every guy in DC who isn’t a tourist seems to wear a suit, is in a hurry, acts important, and is about 4 feet tall. Bridget pointed out that DC is the town of the Napoleon complex.
• Which state’s idiot citizens stopped foot traffic at the new WWII memorial so they could take hours to compose a picture of their slackjawed progeny in front of their state’s memorial? Ohio’s, of course.
• I may have ruined a 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card by taking a flash photo of it. Book value: possibly as high as $640,500.
• Bridget’s boyfriend Wei is a good guy. Bridget has done well for herself.
• Rosemary and John have the nicest townhouse in existence. I say this mainly because John installed a urinal in the basement.
• Bohemian girls and persons of ambiguous sexuality can smoke the ol’ weed on M street with impunity.
• Rosemary asked Justin which ethnic group he finds most attractive besides the Anglos. Justin: “Latin men.”
• Aimee’s parents may love their dogs more than they love her.
• There is a 2-story Harris Teeter in Ballston. It even has a little ramp and elevator for shopping carts. It’s like the old Fisher-Price parking garage set. You know the one.
• I-85 in southern VA was created solely to make drivers fall asleep at the wheel.
• In Maryland, if you encounter a traffic jam on a major exit (we’re talking major major — I-95 @ I-695), it is appropriate to do a U-Turn and drive back up the ramp on the shoulder.
• Without my GPS, Justin, me, and his car would have all been dismantled in a chop shop by now.
• A restaurant with a ‘casual’ atmosphere in DC means dress shirt and Armani slacks, not Bojangle’s T-Shirt and flip-flops.
• I was only asked to take someone’s picture three times on this trip.
• According to a gentleman we met in a Dunkin’ Donuts in Catonsville, “if you’re coming up here from North Carolina, a good old boy better be down with some hip-hop. You can’t have your Klan meetings up here.”
• I don’t hate all art. The National Gallery was a good time, actually.
• Aimee’s dad has a FABULOUS head of hair.
• Petey holds it down for NC.
• Vehicles in Melissa’s new neighborhood range from a Z3 to a shopping cart.

More to come. I gotta go home and pack.

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Cynthia told me that she found a place in Athens, Ohio that serves good sweet tea.

I asked her where.

She said “Hardee’s.”

Well, I ’bout fell out the boat.

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