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<img src="stuff/1a.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> <b>People in Washington DC walk up and down escalators.<img src="stuff/continue.gif" alt=" " width="1" height="1" border="0"></b><br>
<img src="stuff/1b.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> This surprised me when I moved here in 1989. I was a<br>
<img src="stuff/1d.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> rather wide-eyed small town kid, just graduated from a<br>
<img src="stuff/1e.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> cozy Pennsylvania college, and much of the city both<br>
<img src="stuff/2a.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> amused and scared me. But there was something different<br>
<img src="stuff/2c.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> about the escalator people, something robotic and a<br>
<img src="stuff/2d.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> little scary. It wasn't just all the suited, briefcased<br>
<img src="stuff/3a.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> grown-ups pumping up and down, rejecting the quaint<br>
<img src="stuff/3b.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> promise of a free ride, but more the finality with<br>
<img src="stuff/3c.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> which it was done. Walkers on the left, standers on the<br>
<img src="stuff/3d.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> right. No exceptions and ignorance is no excuse. Make<br>
<img src="stuff/3e.jpg" alt=" " align=middle width="50" height="50" border="0"> your choice and stick with it.<br>
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