Archive for 'Musings from the Yellow Line'

Musings from 14th Street

One of my favorite things to write on this blog was “Musings from the Yellow Line” which usually included a rant about some awful smells, the terrible drivers, amusing anecdotes, or any other general observations about riding the metro in DC. Unfortunately, the long ride into the city coupled with the issues I just listedRead More…

Musings from the Yellow Line: The Lazy Thief

I haven’t taken the metro to work in at least a month, if not more. Though it often evokes some interesting blog posts, it’s just not worth it. I have to take a shuttle that is inevitably late, from my apartment to the metro, and then aallll the way down the yellow line, and thenRead More…

Musings from the Yellow Line

Again with the confidential documents! This particular story is not from today, I’ll admit, but is from the other day as I was standing and waiting for the yellow line. On any given day, it can take anywhere from 5-25 minutes for the yellow line train to arrive, and it’s an above ground station (cold!).Read More…

Musings from the Yellow Line

On my way home last week, somewhere underground, the train stopped. This is almost an every day occurrence, at least in my metro experience, but this time was different. This time, the driver kept going back, and forth, and back, and forth — for at least 3 full minutes (a Long time underground). And he didn’tRead More…

Musings from the Yellow Line

While riding the metro home today, I wondered why no one ever put tissue boxes on the metro — in the trains, or just in the stations. Why not install something in the wall to hold tissues? I’m totally serious, and I’ve actually given it some thought. Of course there is the issue of tissues beingRead More…

Musings from the yellow line

People should not read “confidential” documents on the metro, especially not with me around ;o)