Request
July14
For those of you out there in Metro DC who choose to ride the metro on days it hits 90 degrees in addition to very high humidity, I request that you wear deodorant. If you choose not to, please avoid using the overhead hand rails which require you to lift both of your arms straight up. I’m taking a cab next time.
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HAHA! Now you know why I stopped taking Metro!
When I lived in DeeCee 44 years ago, there was a similar problem on DC Transit, the bus/trolley system of the time.
Especially in the early evening when the, ahem, “household maids” were coming from back from work in Cathedral Park where I lived.
If you rode those busses during those hours, you ALWAYS sat near a window.
DC Transit had some of the earliest airconditioned busses in the country, but the A/C units were expensive and difficult to maintain (they had a second engine up there to run them) so the usual status was no A/C.
Of course, the trolleys were never airconditioned, and the last ones ran in ‘62, I believe. The Cabin John car out to the amusement park on the Potomac about 10 miles up from Georgetown.