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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Will you be able to mail things? Isn't the PO closed?
I got one load of laundry in, but the machine I used may well be broken, sigh. I also motivated to wash the dishes, but that's it. We leave for a movie in an hour, not sure what I can get done in that time, maybe get sheets on the bed.
I think, "what about if you have to go to the bathroom?"
You hold it. I've done the Mall-crowd thing a couple of times- Clinton in '92 and a 4th of July that reached towards the numbers that this one will. (In retrospect, it's probably good it was 100 F that day...) I think I availed myself of the porta-potties in '92, but ...yeah, doubt it this time.
It took about 90 minutes to shuffle (and I do mean shuffle. Babysteps) to the metro-station to leave. I honestly expect the same or much worse this time. Pros for less onerous: the parade is later. So some people will attempt to head for that even though they've been warned not to. Cons: mass exodus when the address by Obama is over. I'd love to stick around for the poem, just out of curiosity, but we'll see. I'm pretty much planning for it to take the entire afternoon to get back to my car.
Also, what to wear.
Diapers?
lisah, I'm planning to take 29 down.
I'd love to stick around for the poem, just out of curiosity, but we'll see. I'm pretty much planning for it to take the entire afternoon to get back to my car.
Our Marc train doesn't leave until 7:20 at night so I'm hoping the crowds will have dissipated a bit by then. I'm not sure what all we'll do between the end of inauguration and when we can go home though. Find a bar probably!
Having done Times Square on New Years 2000 (where we were there for 20 hours), the portopotties weren't that bad to get to and get back, but we also just limited intake a lot.
The only time I was in big crowd no potty option was NYE in Times Square. We went about 10 hours. Not drinking anything helped. I don't think I could manage now. I am a frequent pee-er.
I'm so glad I was in DC last week instead of this week.
The Mall already had a shitload of porta-potties. What's scary is the thought there might still not be enough....
I don't think I could manage now. I am a frequent pee-er.
I am too. I think it will be fine, really. I'll probably just have to wait in a lot of lines.
Anytime I hear about great crowds like that, I think, "what about if you have to go to the bathroom?" I wish my mind weren't quite so prosaic in its concerns. It's not as though it's a frequent concern of mine, but I often evaluate situations on the basis of availability of sanitary facilities.
There are a few hundred porta potties. I was at the Mall for a little while yesterday, and didn't see any lines for them. (There were also some people selling toilet paper, claiming that the porta potties had run out of it, but that wasn't true.)
I wasn't actually in the crowd by the reflecting pool, though -- I got there too late, and ended up in the overflow crowd around the Washington Monument, behind the WWII Memorial. Couldn't see anything from there anyway (the jumbotrons were mounted too low, and I couldn't see over people's heads), so I found a spot totally outside the crowd where I could actually hear better.