Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:31:51 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs@aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: passing along a story....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>

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."