At some point this week, chiefs of staff to New Jersey members of Congress probably sent a memo around to their interns telling them not to drop the boss’ name in line at the bakery.
The new “Spotted: DC Summer Interns” blog launched June 1 invites Capitol Hill habitues and others in Washington to send in reports about the antics of the swarm of interns who invade the city every summer.
Along with overheard conversations about getting ----faced at open-bar receptions was a post on Wednesday about an intern wearing Congressional ID tags getting impatient at the bakery. The blog, which promises to keep actors anonymous, says that after asking a customer five spots ahead of him on line to speed it up, the intern then shouts:
“You don’t believe I work on the Hill!!! See!! I work for Representative[NJ]! Let me jump the line!!”
After that doesn’t work, the intern again becomes incensed when he learns that while he can get a bagel and cream cheese, he cannot get lox.
“He proceeds to yell at the women behind the counter that the only proper way to have a bagel in the morning is with lox, and that everybody from New Jersey knows this,” the blog post notes.
The intern buys the bagel anyway, then rejects it because, “NOBODY in DC knows how to make a proper bagel.”
He is generally right on that point, many bagels in DC are like puffy Kaiser rolls with holes in the middle, the kind you get in New Jersey at Dunkin Donuts. But being a jerk about it doesn't change it.
And there are a few places to get real bagels. It’s just that it takes longer than your average internship to learn where they are.
