Downtown

 "So T-Bolt, you going downtown to watch the inauguration?  Did you go to the January 6th protest?"

Hell no!  

First of all, I am a local.  If we don't have a reason to go downtown, like a job, we rarely go downtown.  That's where you have to ride the Metro trains.  Which are probably on fire.  Or struggle to park and then get a parking ticket anyway. (DC can't tax the suburbs, so they get their revenue from traffic tickets.)

Second...  Crowds.  I avoid them.

Third, we don't do the tourist things here if we live here.  We call tourists 'tortoises' because of how slow they drive.  DC streets are tough to navigate as it is, and they gawp at the buildings the whole time.  So they drive like Sunday drivers.  All the time.  Erryday.

Finally, they have shut down the city from today til the 21st.  Have the subway stations are close, the bridges over the river are shut down south of the Exorcist steps and north of Alexandira.  Barbwire fences.  They have truly over-reacted, expecially since no one was planning to go to the city except Biden fans after the 10th. And the inaugruation is going to be a Zoom call, now, it seems. 

You are not wanted in DC.  Nor am I.  Not this week.