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Way back when the editor was in college he spent a summer interning in Midtown Manhattan and living in the East Village. At that point, Greenwich Village was to the west. The "East Village" was a way of making an area just north of the Bowery and east of somewhere into "Something". Pretty soon Greenwich Village was also known as the "West Village", to distinguish itself from the upstart.

Anyway, First Avenue was one-way south. The editor learned that you really only had to look right for cars. Mistake. One morning on the way to the subway he looked right and got clobbered on the left by a bicycle going the other way. Not too serious, but more than embarrassing. The bike rider wasn't happy.

A section of the 900 block of M Street is one-way. So last Friday the editor walks out to cross over to One Cup to get the paper, looks right, and damn near got clobbered hard. Some gal was going to work, and was surprised that someone would treat one-way streets like one-way streets. No contact, but she was moving fast. Strong rider. She never looked back.

Lesson relearned. Look both ways even if it is a one-way street.