Last call for most of D.C. on the night before the inauguration was four a.m. The metro opened up for inauguration day at four a.m. Obviously, there was some overlap of drunk people trying to get home and people trying to get into the city to stand on the Mall.
The first train through the Dupont Circle station on the notoriously crowded (on a regular day’s rush hour) red line was packed like sardines. People had obviously driven to places like Shady Grove and Rockville and boarded the metro to get into the city, which ws to be expected. This fact, however, did not deter drunk people who, as they started their attempt to squeeze into the train in defiance of physics, began to chant “Yes We Can.”
It was by far the best use of the phrase I have ever heard.
Here’s to an awesome January 20. «»
Hahaha, watching the inauguration on television was claustrophobically nauseating enough. I can only imagine what it’s like to live in the DC area…
but some people find it’s worth getting as close to history as possible, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
This post made me smile : ) … and laugh.