Aside from a dramatic life-saving rescue, and bi-weekly fires, the view from my desk is mostly the mundane, slow construction going on across the street.
It took weeks for the construction workers to put up the giant sign for the Compass Coffee roastery. For an hour, it hilariously read “ASS COFFEE,” which my inner 13-year-old found hilarious.
Then, when the sign read “MPASS COFFEE,” an actual impasse happened and the construction workers started a full-on screaming fight in the middle of the street.
The Compass Coffee headquarters in Ivy City, Washington DC
Apparently some of the workers wanted to stop working exactly at 5p.m., but others felt that they should put up the remaining two letters instead of hauling all of the equipment back the next day. Someone called their boss and they ended up putting up the last two letters.
Now the sign completely lights up our apartment every evening, but our bedroom has a half-wall, so it’s not as disruptive as I thought it would be.
The Compass Coffee headquarters in Ivy City, Washington DC
The Compass Coffee headquarters in Ivy City, Washington DC
The Compass Coffee headquarters in Ivy City, Washington DC
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