(pause for giggles)
However, Foggy Bottom is not on my Metro route. Rather than pay the extra $0.10 to transfer lines and suck air conditioning until I'm within a block and a half of my building, I get off the train 0.6 miles from work and walk it in. I believe it to be faster than switching trains. Also, there are far fewer people walking along the sidewalk than there are crammed into Metro trains, and that suits me just fine.
On my walk, I pass a few guys begging for change or food. Some artfully, by playing classical trumpet accompanied a full orchestra, playing with all their might from the confines a boombox. Others beg obnoxiously, by constantly shaking an empty McDonald's cup full of nickels. But none panhandle quite so aggressively as the guy I encountered on Friday, June 11th at the Starbucks on 19th and K.
I made eye contact with him as I passed by.
He seized the moment.
"GO BUY ME A WATER!!!!" he shouted.
"No, thank you," I whispered, and hurried off.
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