Guess it's time to light this candle. With me moving out of DC a short five years after I originally planned, I have compiled a list of things I will miss, and things I won't miss. I'm sure this only repeats everything you (all?) know anyway, but to recap:
Things I will miss about DC (and Arlington):
- Pour House
- Kitty O'Sheas
- Friends (awwww…)
- Intern Season
Things I will NOT miss about DC (and Arlington)
- Douchebags of the following varieties:
- The "I know I am important because I work on the Hill and wear striped shirts with solid colored collars and make coffee for the Senator's assistant receptionist" douchebag -- 1) You're not that important, nor is your "job," and B) It's not necessary to wear your biz-casual outfit to the bar at 10:30 pm on a Saturday, I know you didn't just stroll in from the office, douche.
- The Georgetown douchebag -- While I may have adopted your blazer wearing tendencies, I assure you it is only a phase, not a way of life.
- The UVA ex-fraternity douchebag -- I don't know any of you, but I know you when I see you.
- The "collar up" douchebag -- Mere coincidence that this douchebag overlaps with the 3 above? I think not.
- People talking politics all of the time -- I don't care what you think, and I probably don't care about you.
- Hipsters -- Are you people serious? Halloween is only one day a year.
- The people at Mr. Days around closing time -- Based on the one time I was there at closing time, like 5 years ago, there was so much hair gel and partly un-buttoned, heavily starched shirts, I thought I was at a Jersey wedding, sans the good looking girls and Trans Ams.
- Traffic.
- Maryland drivers.
- Metro delays.
- Ladder climbing hussies.
- Horrible, horrible summers.
- Horrible, horrible winters -- It's not warm, it's not cold, it's nothing. just like everything else here.
- Skeevy Adams Morgan people.
- Tourists -- I don't hate you because you stand on the Metro escalators and block Metro doors or stop in the middle of Constitution Ave because you're gawking at the White House Christmas tree, I hate you because you get to leave DC after only being here for a weekend. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn't like you because you smell bad.
- Living close to Maryland.
- Redskins fans -- Firstly, nice name, a-holes, and secondly, no, they are not going to win Super Bowl every year, don't act so surprised.
- Living in the Confederacy - I need to get out before it rises again.
- Tearing down Dr. Dremo's and Taco Bell for (another) high rise condo -- I'm no anti-development, small/local business guy by any means, I just happened to like Dr. Dremo's and Taco Bell, a lot. But now they're gone, soon to be replaced by another tower of douchebags.
