Kevin Costner's Russian's Rusty: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Thread II

i was going from bwi to dupont circle at like 11pm and it somehow took nearly two hours and we ended up at the convention center???

dude those buses come every half-hour WINK WINK and they take like 15 mins to get there UBF

If you want a real adventure take TEH FAIRFAX CONNECTOR.

then the time before that i was piggy-backing onto my boss's taxi, he lives in downtown silver spring so i was going to just get off and take the metro and like the driver was completely mystified by even the concept of a town called silver spring. it's like 20 minutes away from bwi!!

lol @ wink wink also lol @ bus + metro at a lot of times pplz would be coming in at airport :\

Last time I flew out of dulles I took the metro to west falls church and did the Dulles Flyer shuttle. Took a while but worked fine. On the way back I took a cab back from West Falls Church metro after the Flyer dropped me off, since I had mad luggage and would have had to take a cab from foggy bottom anyway. The cab was only $16! Awesome.

Or you could take the 69 bus, there are probably girls on it and you could have a crush.

SORRY NONE OF OUR ROUTES RUN IN THE SNOW KTHXBYE

fly girls be busin

the last time i came in on amtrak i had the bright idea to rush and take the last metro out of union station instead of taking a cab. LOL UR DOIN IT WRONG! never again, we must've sat at metrocenter for forty-five minutes waiting for a delayed orange line train to connect with us. i wanted to get out but got into that mindfuck of "the second i get out this train will close doors and leave, just watch" and ended up just having a panic attack over the dilemma.

my least favorite DC transporation quirk is coming into union station on a late night amtrak. You have to get to the front of the train and then dash through union station to get one of the 5 available cabs for 200 people unless you want to wait for the better part of an hour.

then they try to fit as many people (with luggage!) as possible in their cabs and get REALLY angry when you tell them you're going to the opposite end of zone 1.

oh god the trying to fit random strangers into a cab with you--holy christ. if they're going to take you out of your way to go drop off some random person who lives "near you", they could at least cut y'all breaks on the fucking cab fare instead of charging full price. i've also had one of the cab drivers try to charge the extra $1.50 fee for extra passengers one time despite the fact that i had no fucking idea who this extra passenger was and it was his decision to take this person on!! what the hell?

fuck cab drivers who already have other passengers and stop and try to pick you up and by the time you tell them "F U i will take a different cab u lamerz" an empty cab has already driven by.

(yeah, 69, I know. take the bus.)

Or call and hire a car service. Seriously. No wait, no fuss, car all to yourself.

This may be precluded by budgetary concerns.

dude brian this is why you don't even attempt to say "F U i will take a different cab" you just pretend the already-taken cab is kryptonite.

oh, I usually yell at the people who are already in the cab like it's their fault.

hahaha it is their fault, they should say something to the cab driver to prevent this lunacy

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wow

TONIGHT IN URBANLANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND

guise i am a broek student who is going into debt by even going to this wedding ----> i don't ride in cabs, i take the bus UBF

thanks for the advice, though!

then yeah, straight up cheapest way from Dulles to DC is the 69-approved WMATA bus for $3.

http://www.wmata.com/timetables/dc/5a.pdf

yeah bro yeah

I love the idea of that bus but come on WMATA L'Enfant Plaza and Rosslyn FOR SERIOUS?

gerrymandered partyairplanebus line

this could also work:

http://ridetheboomerang.com/

an intern at my work has ridden that party bus like three times while he's been in town this summer - his plans tonight involve the rock and roll hotel

:/ i would make mine involve r&r hotel too.

my plans tonight involve drugs of varying levels of legality, playing records at neighbor-offending volumes, and quite probably burritos from picante.

ooh picante!

burritos, drugs, and rock & roll

i staggered into picante last night on my way back from jenny's bar-taking celebration. somehow me, dan, and his friend wound up closing the bar. having picante 2 blocks away is probably what i will miss most about this neighborhood.

HEY DC how do I shot high speed internet that doesn't cost $40/month? I don't want cable or a land line

is this possible

Verizon is like 29 bucks for DSL for me

whoops i mean 39

i investigated it a bunch awhile back and that was about as cheap as it got

you're going to basically have to get cable or the landline from what i understand? though i think you can get only dsl from the phone company but the price difference to get it with no phone line or to add the landline is so insignificant it's not worth making the big deal of getting ONLY dsl :\

but i haven't investigated thoroughly recently because i'm being lazy and scamming my work's wireless internet card.

yeah they told me that too $32 for high speed but not superfast and $42 for fast (if I don't get land line)

i might get comcast though it's faster + basic cable (i don't really care but it would be nice i suppose to have cable tv)

i have a wireless card too but usually am on my home PC and would be using it for web dev work

i've heard nothing good about comcast's customer service, though nothing has broken yet on our verizon stuff, and i'm sure verizon is just as bad.

that would be the main difference I've encountered between comcast and verizon, is that my verizon dsl doesn't get fucking hosed once or twice every month.

*knocks wood*

all these places have terrible customer service. if yr place is not already wired for cable (and looks can be deceiving--if you haven't actually plugged in the cable and checked to see if it is outputting anything, don't assume it's still wired) it'll be a drama to get cable internet.

tho the downside of testing this out is that you might discover that you already HAVE basic cable because comcast forgot to turn it off and then you will not want to call and get internets because if you call then they will KNOW you are stealing cable and will start charging you u_u

verizon seems equally annoying but they also want a year contract & i'm like no

I have free internets most of the time. Sometimes not, depending on whether my friendly/unaware neighbor has her wireless running.

dudes, get comcast for a short-ass pd of time at whatever intro rate theyll give you, then when they jack it up, call and be like "ooh, please cancel," and theyll be like "ooh why?" and you be like "i just cant pay more than 19.99," and theyll do this game where they go "please hold," and come back with a lower rate, from like 39.99 to 34.99 to 29.99 to 24.99, and i think down to 19.99. you just gotta believe. i stopped at 29.99, but my friend got it down to 19.99, just by believing in herself.

One more

How do I shot getting rid of my car??

I thought about coming down to see Mets this weekend at RFK, but Thermo is coming to NY with baseball tix. Also, I have spent too much this summer.

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