There's no way anyone can answer this question for you. You're asking people to predict the future. You know it's illegal. You know that people get away with doing it anyway. If you really want to know what will specifically happen to you, just do it and find out.

It's a vast improvement on the parking lots that were once there and I want to like it but something about it has always felt...disappointing. It looks like you should want to linger there but often there are very few other people lingering any longer than it takes to snap a few selfies or posed photos in front of Tatte or in one of the festively decorated alleys. It is a good place to sit and read in good weather at one of the tables, because there generally aren't a lot of people around to disturb you.

I used to go to the Flywheel there, but it closed in 2020 and I'm definitely not the target demographic for any of the stores so, to me, it just feels like a very tidy, pretty-looking place that I shouldn't be in.

That's where I got stuck. I read it four times, sure that I must have misunderstood.

>I keep thinking, is there a likely catch to any studio/1br or larger that's under $1,000/month?

The catch is that no such place exists and it's a scam.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

>The Project Manager: Very stressed out. Very busy answering email.

Eeek. Suddenly made me remember the project manager I had a couple of jobs ago. She worked remotely most of the time and everyone dreaded the days when she was in person at the office. She was bad enough to deal with on the phone. She insisted that she be CC'd on EVERY email that anyone in my group sent to anyone at the agency or to each other. She got bent out of shape one day because she said I hadn't notified her about something. I replied that I'd sent her an email about it. She then acted as if it was absurd to expect her to have seen my email because "I get over 200 emails a day!"

I thought that it just *felt* to me like this woman was yelling when she talked, even on the phone, because I just hated being around her so much. But one day one of the legal assistants, who sat several offices away, asked "Why is she always yelling? It stresses me out and she's not even talking to me."

If it makes you feel any better, some people you talk to here probably also don't understand. I live and work here but all my jobs here have been contractor positions doing technical work that involves sitting and staring at a two monitors 8 or 10 hours a day, clicking and typing, typing and clicking, rarely getting to talk to anyone at all. The people I know who have these policy/advocacy/issues-oriented jobs explain to me what they do and I nod and say "Oh, OK" but rarely understand wtf they're talking about beyond the absolute basics.

When everyone was suddenly WFH in 2020, I had a neighbor whose balcony was right next to my bedroom window and I could see her out there the whole spring, doing Zoom meetings on her lap top two or three times a day. I was fascinated but also totally mystified that someone's job could entail spending so much of the day talking to people. Some jobs are just hard to understand if they're very different from yours.

>I’m seeking to help bridge divides in an increasingly polarized America and meet people where they are.

This seems like just...way too much. My idea of meeting people where they are is to talk to them like adults, not tiptoe around their feelings about something that's none of their business, like how you earn a paycheck.

If you've managed to land a job that's meaningful for you (most people are not that lucky), that you enjoy and that pays well, you've already accomplished more than most people. There's really no need to take on the additional burden of trying to heal the American political divide in a mundane conversation about your job.

Do your more conservative friends and relatives feel compelled to explain their vocational choices to you or concern themselves with whether you'll find what they do for a living distasteful or objectionable?

It's pretty badly written. It makes it sound as if a man was walking with some children and then shot his own father.

>I have tried the "I go first" thing you described and had pedestrians start screaming at me.

Yeah, there are definitely people who believe that there's some universal, blanket statute granting pedestrians the right of way everywhere, in all circumstances. I have no idea how these people don't get run over five times a year.

>That said please don't do the hand motion thing. Just follow the rules of the intersection and proceed. When cars play traffic cop it only confuses things and it's condescending.

This is exactly why I look away from cars when they get to the intersection right before me. I refuse to play the "Go ahead..No, YOU go ahead" game. You were there first, so just go first as you would if I was a car. Because while you're waving me ahead, someone behind you could get impatient, whip around you and hit me OR someone else could pull up at another corner of the intersection and decide they want to go first since neither of us is moving. I know people are trying to be "nice" when they wave pedestrians ahead but it just slows everyone down and creates confusion.

One day we're gonna really hit the jackpot and get a post about SissyGrace engaging in fare evasion with a Maryland license plate that has $82,000 worth of tickets on it.

>I've read a story a few months back about a restaurant in SE near nats stadium that was forced to shut down street operations and the owner was all sad about it because he was losing his free extension that I guess he felt he had a right to have.

Not much different from people being all sad about losing the parking that I guess they feel they have a right to have.

Considering how much everything on all four sides surrounding that parking lot has changed in just the past five years, that lot has likely already been sold for redevelopment and will probably be a construction site no less than a couple of years from now. Remember the two parking lots that were at 3rd NW & K and 4th NW & K, just a block away from there? Gone. The ones at H St. NW between 1st and 2nd NW? Both gone. The parking lot at L St. NW and North Capitol? Gone. Just give it a minute.

"Safety also responded and found 18 safety violations between the two school buses taking the children on the field trip. A third bus that responded to replace the damaged bus was also found to have safety violations. The unit determined none of the bus drivers were properly licensed to be driving the school buses."

This guy is just a symptom of a huge problem all over the country. Being a school bus driver doesn't pay well and the schedule - get up really early, work for a few hours, work again for a few hours in the afternoon five days a week - has to make it really difficult to have another job to make up the income shortfall.

It's not easy to find people who can pass the drug screen and backgeound check and who are willing to put up with the pay, the schedule, the stress and dealing with dozens of wild kids every day. Also, if DCPS is like many/most other school systems, the bus drivers are not school system employees. They're probably employed by some contractor or staffing service that pays badly and provides bare minimum benefits, which the drivers likely don't qualify for anyway since the weekly hours don't add up to full time.

Schools systems of every size all over the country have this problem. My brother was a substitute teacher last year in another state and school administrators tried more than once to persuade him to drive a school bus because they had such a shortage. He does not have any credentials to drive a school bus.