Ten Signs You've Been Dating in Washington, DC too long

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1. All your friends are married and or/have babies.
And they've all left the city proper for places like Clarendon in Northern Virginia (#boring), and they never want to go out anymore. You're the resident old man/woman in your Columbia Heights group house and you're loving it ... except when it makes you weep that they're all 10 years younger than you.

 

2. This is a completely acceptable look for a guy.
Especially if you're out to dinner in Georgetown.

 

3. You avoid Adams Morgan on a weekend night like the plague.
Unless you just had a bad date. In which case you book it to 18th Street, do some jello shots at Millie & Al's, and your night ends in Jumbo slice and tears. But at least Jumbo slice.

 

4. You've dated every political affiliation, religion and nationality there is.
You swore you'd never date a Republican but ... check. And then there was that cute foreign exchange grad student from Pakistan. And the Saudi with the BMW. D.C. does not lack in rich, loaded people, and you always learn a lot -- until their visa expires and they have to go back to their country.

 

5. If your date hasn't read certain books, it's an immediate dealbreaker.

 

6. You keep seeing people you know, and/or people you've dated, on Washington Post's Date Lab.
D.C. is relatively tiny and lots of people there like to see their names in print. So chances are you, your coworker's sister's sorority sister, or that guy you went on three dates with a year ago who mysteriously disappeared, is going to end up in the WaPo's always-entertaining singles matchmaking section. And you'll either cackle about it with your coworkers or die a little bit on the inside.

 

7. Politics is topic #1 on a date.
People on Date Lab (and in real life) say stuff like: "I was walking on eggshells because it was clear early on that we were on different sides of the political spectrum."

 

8. "What do you do" is topic #2.
They also say stuff like: "She's got a great -- I know this may sound D.C. -- but I was very impressed with her résumé, truthfully."

 

9. You've told your date (or a date has told you) that a piece of information is "off the record."
Or your date didn't reveal the details of his top-secret job until you got to know each other better. Maybe you've been dating for years, but you still don't know.

 

10. First date with someone you barely know? "Let's just meet at Kramer's."

 

[Bengals_9]

LMFAO

[|Bunghole|]

I'm so glad I don't live in that area anymore. Ah, the suburbs of Northern Virginia, one big inter-connected strip mall/suburb cookie-cutter home station from Reston to Baltimore.

[CincyInDC]

Not counting my "early years," living in DC was the longest dry spell of my life.  Too many dudes and too many brainy women who see right through you.  :)

 

A buddy of mine always said if I'm that desparate, I should take a nap on Friday evening after work, then head out to Adams Morgan at 1:30 and pick up the scraps.

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30 years of living in DC and I can't dispute this list one bit.

 

"Date Lab" is an interesting read.  It is in The Washington Post Magazine every Sunday.

[Tigris]

Not counting my "early years," living in DC was the longest dry spell of my life.  Too many dudes and too many brainy women who see right through you.  :)
 
A buddy of mine always said if I'm that desparate, I should take a nap on Friday evening after work, then head out to Adams Morgan at 1:30 and pick up the scraps.

Ha! Picking up the scraps. I like it!

[CincyInDC]

Ha! Picking up the scraps. I like it!

 

When I wrote it I read it in the voice of the guy who did the honey badger voice-over.  "and then these birds just swoop in to pick up the scrapsss."

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg