“President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the nation’s capital.” —Reuters
A tourist standing to the left on a Metro Center escalator
The line at Call Your Mother on a Sunday morning
The price of one beer at Nats Park
Someone eating a granola bar on the metro
A Virginia driver trying to navigate Chevy Chase Circle
Steak ’n Egg closing
A tourist pronouncing it “DuPONT”
Seeing a movie where a character takes the metro to Georgetown
Overhearing someone say they were flying out of “Reagan”
Illegal immigrants everywhere (spotted lantern flies)
The humidity in August
Realizing the zoo is about to close, but you are all the way at Amazonia with two children and a stroller, and you took the metro here
The price of a three-bedroom row house in Adams Morgan that needs a gut renovation
Off-leash golden doodle at Petworth Farmers Market
When someone tells you they “grew up in DC,” but they are from Fairfax
Undesirables from seedy underground locations making lots of noise at night (cicadas)
How much a Mall vendor tries to charge you for one chocolate ice cream before you explain that you aren’t a tourist
Preferring Rehoboth over Bethany
Diners being accosted by strangers while eating outdoors past 8 p.m. on H Street (rats)
Not knowing to visit Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, truly one of the most beautiful, serene, and interesting locations in the city that is often overlooked by tourists and locals alike
A man swimming in Rock Creek Park (RFK)