From "The D" to DC

Let me bust your chops for a second here.

I’ve been watching this photo/video go through share after re-share on FB and the like, and I have to take a moment to scoff at the “stop and smell the roses” comments associated with the post.

I took the metro, the DC mass transit system into work this morning, as I do most days. As I exit L’Enfant plaza, a major hub in the rail system, a violinist, equally as enjoyable as the Josh Bell featured in the attached viral vid, plays a series of upbeat classical pieces for the passersby to enjoy. If he’s lucky, people will toss a few coins his way as they continue on their way (usually I’m one of them). But there are some days where I don’t bother to take my headphones off, where my violinist is a silent pantomime of a musician and I am already outlining my day and trying to remember if I have a deadline that falls prior to lunchtime.

From what I’ve seen on my FB feed,  most of the re-sharing has been coming from suburb dwellers, who likely drive - alone - by personal vehicle to and from work every day. So I just gotta ask - would you pull over on the side of your major interstate if you saw some dude in a ballcap and sneakers, jammin’ on his fiddle?

We’re all busy. We’re commuting. We’re on our way to the office and we’re already thinking about the 8:30 presentation we have to tweak before we get the conference room in order. DC/city folks are no different than the expressway jockeys, it’s just that we get to work in a whole handful of ways that don’t involve an expressway.

So before you decide to take up yoga or make a new Q1 resolution to “pay it forward” on a more regular basis, stop to ask yourself “I wonder if I’m going to make my bus?” That’s what I do.

I bet he’s listening to Costello.

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Gwennabe, forever and always.

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Every video I ever made in high school video production!

pendarkspoliticalpage:

What Google and Facebook are hiding from you.

I’m not surprised.  Very annoyed.  But not surprised.

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I wish!

Disney Characters as Real People

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