Stanley Cup Playoffs 2018

CountingDown
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 04:10:57 +0000

^^I was following along on WaPo and Russian Machine Never Breaks. Absolute insanity!

I had my own magic Stanley Cup moment last week. Now that they’ve won the Cup and the party stories have taken over, I’ll share. If you heard about TJ Oshie taking the Metro last Monday and not having enough money on his farecard – that scoop and the pictures came from me. He was going through the turnstile at the same time as me when his card was rejected. He headed over to the Exitfare machine and I followed. He stood in line waited as others put money on their cards. (People came up to take selfies with him – some asked permission, others didn’t.) He tried to pay with a credit card, and I had to tell him that Exitfare machines don’t accept plastic. He was 35 cents short. I had change and offered it to him. Another guy behind him offered a $20. The machine doesn’t take anything larger than a $10. Oshie finally said he’d had over to the station office to see if they could help him. He was very nice and a little chagrined at not knowing how the machines work. I told him we all have that problem with Metro fare machines!

I sent the pics and tweet to Russian Machine Never Breaks (it’s a fan-based site and breaks a lot of good Caps hockey stories). I’ve been following it for a long time. Apparently a lot of other media folks follow it, too, because within 10 minutes I was getting tweets from local and national outlets asking to use the pics and/or story. The story made Sports Center.

Thanks heavens I don’t use my real name on Twitter!!!