Sunday, September 2, 2007

Badges. Take 'em off please!

look, i live and work in DC. when i leave work, i take off my friggin' badge.

why?!

cuz i'm not at work anymore!

i'd really like to know who these dorks are that are clearly going home (on the bus, the metro, etc.) and keep their badges strewn against their chest or beltloop....

do you go home and sleep with your badge on?

it's actually a violation (in most Federal agencies) to wear your badge in public. if you're at lunch, or going home to your pad in st. charles county, MD, or somewhere in VA, TAKE IT OFF!

nobody gives a crap!

is it not enough that i can see your name, and the agency you work for? some freak might actually use that crap against you.

take of the badge.

i know it's really cool to have a federally issued ID, but this is DC, and we all have them. it's not really that fashionable to wear them on the bus. take it off!

seriously, nobody gives a shit but you.

ok....

it might be cool to wear your little badge back home in iowa, wyoming, or wherever. you can show people that you are a FEDERAL EMPLOYEE. oooohhh. big whoop. in DC, you're just one of the rest of us. take the thing off and go home.

if you're trying to relay to folks that you're not a tourist, then you need to actually act like a local. i.e. a person who lives in DC.

i bet most of the dufus-bags that wear their ID outside of work live in MD or VA.

wanna bet me?

prove me wrong....

Damned foreigners!

i have to say, the number one thing that irks me are these fucking hoodrats that live in maryland and virginia, and say they live in DC!

you don't live in DC.

you live in the suburbs of DC, probably because you can't afford to live in the nation's capitol, or you want to live near strip malls which probably remind you of home.

i can't stand these f*ckers that say they live in DC, and actually live in an apartment in chantilly, fairfax, or whatever.

YOU LIVE IN THE BURBS!

you drive in to town, or you crowd the metro so you can get to work and go back home to your house in VA or MD. you f*ck up our streets, the traffic, the metro... and you go back to your little suburban life, and bitch about 'your commute'. blow me.

i've made a huge effort to buy a house, renovate a house, and pay taxes to a district that doesn't even have the right to vote.

I LIVE IN DC. (NE DC at that) you don't! so don't say you do, mister dude in a suit on the metro on his cell phone inviting a beltway bandit to his house for dinner in "DC".

you live in the f*cking burbs of DC, but you claim to live in the nation's capitol. you don't! you're just a neighbor to the people that are actually towing the line to live, actually LIVE in DC.

you're just a neighbor from a state next door that f*cks up traffic, the metro, and probably brings in friends to show how amazing the Capitol is - yeah, the place where you "live".

blow me.

i wanna call you people losers, but in fact, you're not. you're a bunch of fartknockers that have the dubious gift of living near a stripmall in VA or MD, and claim DC as your home.

if you could actually afford to live in DC, and deal (and that means $$) with the problems we have, you'd be here.

YOU'RE NOT!

so don't say you're from here when you're not. go vote and pay taxes in your own state, and call that state home. don't call DC home.

if you want to live in DC, move here. otherwise, cut the crap and say that you live where you live.

THE BURBS!