We tease because we can.

Tourists often stop us on the street asking for information about Washington, and we usually give them straight answers. After all, they are spending their hard earned dollars (or Euros or yen) in our fair city, and we want to be gracious hosts so that they continue to lay out the dough to the business owners in the neighborhood. Once in a while though, we are tempted to fib and we will shade the truth to see how they react. Once the joke’s done, we bring them in on it and have a good laugh together. (To be perfectly fair, we prank some of our family members too.)

1. The Washington Monument has two different shadings in its stone due to the Great Patowmack Flood of 1854.

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