(no subject)

[geekchick]

*cry*

Do people go to Seattle and remark on the lovely view of the Potomac?

On the Yellow Line metro coming into the city, a large group of tourists with children fresh from the airport remark about the sights coming into view:

Boy 1: "Whoa! Look! What's that?"
Mom: "Oh, it's the Washington Monument! Wow! Look kids!"
Kids: "Whoa...!"
Boy 2: "Hey look, what's that one?"
Mom: "Ahh, I think that's the Lincoln Memorial."
Kids: "Whoa...!"
Boy 2: "Hey, what river is this that we're crossing?"
Boy 3: "Yeah, it's a really wide river. What is it?"
Mom: "I don't know, maybe Puget Sound? Yeah, Puget Sound, I think that's right."

In less depressing news: DC Summer Restaurant Week will be August 6-12. I suspect there will probably be another outing to the fabulous Butterfield 9 in my future, assuming finances allow by that point.

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Oy. The state of geography knowledge and education in this country is appalling. I'd have cried, too.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

DC Summer Restaurant Week will be August 6-12

Rats, I'll be in the Arctic, or just arrived home... will miss it this time.

[geekchick]

Well, it's twice a year, every year. =)

[blivious.livejournal.com]

You can easily forgive mistaking the Jefferson for the Lincoln (right?), but geez. I almost suggested that it would have been worse if she thought it was the Delaware, but at least that's on the same side of the country. Hard to imagine how it could be worse, actually.

[geekchick]

I'm really curious about who knows "Puget Sound" off the top of their head, and yet doesn't know that it is not even on the same coast as the Potomac. I'd accept the Delaware, or the Charles, because they're at least in the same time zone.

[grum]

Someone that learned it as a list of arbitrary names of places in a grade school geography course during which they never really payed attention.

(says the girl who transposed Massachusetts and Maryland, and with that faulty information decided to drive from Virginia to Boston for the weekend)

You get points for making me have to check which coast's friend-set you were in with this post. I can usually tell when the references are at all geographic, but this time.. head.. desk..

[firebirdgrrl.livejournal.com]

Wait...there is a lovely view of the Potomac?

[geekchick]

Sure! I rather like this one, and this one. And this, although that's not a part of the river you can see from the yellow line.