Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:26:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag@yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: passing along a story....
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>

technically, there are restrooms in the stations.
They're supposed to let you use them if it's an
emergency.  There was an article about the "secret
metro restrooms" in the Post a couple months ago.
--- Steve Smith <sgs@aginc.net> wrote:
> N Lynch wrote:
> > I got this from a friend in MA - any truth to
> this?
> >> [snipped]
>
> No.
>
> Whoever wrote this has no familiarity with the DC
> Metro system.
>
> 1.  You don't "get off a slow moving train".  Unless
> you intend to walk
> to your destination, the slower the trains are, the
> longer it'll take
> you to get back on.
>
> 2.  There are no restrooms in Metro stations.
> Getting off a train to
> use the restroom involves farecarding out, finding a
> place that's not
> too fanatical on "restrooms for customers only", and
> then farecarding
> back in.
>
> 3.  Metro is pretty fanatical about not leafleting
> on the platform.
> Idea (correct, IMHO) is that an open train platform
> is dangerous enough
> at the best of times.  Plus, of course, they don't
> want to have to pick
> up all the @#$$% leaflets.
>
> All in all, it's a fairly standard example of the
> right-wing "My
> father/brother/husband/whatever died for your
> freedom, and you should be
> ashamed of yourself for trying to exercise it."
>
> --
> Steve Smith
>  sgs@aginc.net
> Agincourt Computing
> http://www.aginc.net
> "Inoffensive speech doesn't need protecting."
>

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