1 post tagged “men and women”

I work in a Federal Building in downtown D.C. The visitor's entrance is right off of Constitution. Our location guarantees a steady stream of tourists in the neighborhood, and sometimes they get lost confused. I had to go down to the visitor's entrance a little bit ago to pick up a patron for the library - we have more of an internal clientèle even though we're open to the public, so when non-DOL people come to use the library, we have to escort them in. Keeps the employees safe or something... (its not foolproofed though as we have learned the hard way, but I digress...)

So while I was waiting for this visitor to go through the metal detector and have his bags x-rayed (yes every single person who enters the building, whether they work there or not, has to go through the metal detector and have their bags x-rayed - I do it every single morning) I was looking out at the fountain and the street and I saw a group of people walking towards the visitor's entrance. There was one woman and three men. You could tell they were tourists because they were toting cameras and were wearing that look of "vacation." The lone woman in the group had a map in hand, and came inside to the guard's desk to ask, I'm assuming, for directions, while the three men stood outside, scuffing their feet around, hands in pockets, trying to look inconspicuous. I found this to be utterly hilarious - they were all middle aged people. And the woman was the one who went to ask for directions. I just found it highly amusing on a Friday afternoon. I just think its hysterical that the men were standing around, nonchalantly like they knew exactly where they were and where they needed to go, waiting, while the woman just had to go and ask for directions. I'm not articulating it very well - I haven't really articulated anything very well this week, it seems - but it tickled my fancy.

Here's something else that tickled my fancy... I literally was choking on laughter in the middle of the law library. Luckily there was only one person there at the time so I didn't cause too much of a disturbance.

Have a great weekend all! I'm off to celebrate the quarter century ;)