The glory of the SmarTrip card
It’s so convenient. So brilliant, so quick, so easy. You don’t have to fumble with tedious paper farecards, you don’t have to wait for your farecard to come out of the other end of the machine, and you simply breeze past tourists and their flimsy paper tickets (and just think of how cool you look when you tap and go! I still “ooooo” and “aaahhhh” in my head every time I use it and see the barrier magically swing open at the tap of my card).
It’s a brisk and painless process that lets you simply glide on by. Catch a fanny pack-clad tourist in the corner of your eye headed your way to ask you how to change lines at Metro Center to get to the Smithsonian? Just slyly tap the SmarTrip pad with your card (it can even be done through your wallet!) and walk on through (or make your escape, depending on how you look at it) as the gate opens (“Oops! I’d better go before it closes!”). And you’re off!
Thank you, DC Metro, for making my life a lot easier by introducing the SmarTrip card. It’s my little piece of plastic from heaven.
