Do you know where you are?

[Dave in MD]

Customer of the day.
Busy day, long line. The person at the head of the line wasn’t paying attention so a SC tried to cut the line. A guy about 2 or 3 people back called to the first guy to tell him he was next. Then SC starts going on about “what are you doing”, “telling like that”. Then he starts saying “this is Baltimore, where do you think you are? This is Baltimore”. He kept repeating that. Told him that he needed to calm down. He kept on talking so I told him that if he wouldn’t calm down, he would have to leave. He then said, “I’m not talking to you I talking to her”, meaning the girl working our commercial counter. That was enough, so I told him he was out of here. By that my time my security had come up behind me and one of my Team Members came running. Now, my team member that came running is about 6’2 and built like a tank. Former Marine, former Fireman. The SC wisely decided to leave the store but tried calling me outside. That just wasn’t going to happen. Once he was safely on the other side of the door he turned and called me a “White Bitch”. Now I’m a guy, so, whatever.
I like the way he seems to think that everyone in the city is the same disrespectful POS he is.

[nutraxfornerves]

Well, Baltimore is known for its crabs.

[Dave in MD]

Well, Baltimore is known for its crabs.

It's also known for its incredibly bad roads, red light runners, drivers with no license or insurance, high crime rate, large amounts of 'intersection beggars and squeegee boys, murder rate and at least in my store the idea that if if you can steal it you should.

[morgana]

So much for me ever moving to Baltimore . . .

[TheSHAD0W]

Do you know where you are? You're in the Jungle, baby! You're gonna dieeeeeee!!!

[AnaKhouri]

My husband was in Baltimore for a conference. Like, a really nice hotel in a posh touristy part of town. One night he and his lab mates returned from going out to dinner to see their hotel surrounded by police. Someone had pulled up, dumped a body on the front steps and sped off.

[Dave in MD]

The homeless hang outs, sorry I mean Bus benches say "The Greatest City In America". And of course the official nickname is "Charm City".

[judecat]

Historically Baltimore was known as Mob City, not THE mob, but the mobs of unruly idiots that got together to riot and fight and break things whenever things didn't go their own way in the 1800s and early 1900s. So yeah, I can believe it in Baltimore. That's the reason I live and work in the county.

[dalesys]

What I liked best about Baltimore...


When you're landing from the south, just before touchdown... There's a cemetary off to the east side!

[MoonCat]

I attended a con there once, years ago. All I remember is that you had to be extremely careful when crossing the street because the drivers took no prisoners; and the bus from the con hotel to the hotel I was staying at took a really, erm, interesting route, aka "scenic tour of the red light district."

[judecat]

I attended a con there once, years ago. All I remember is that you had to be extremely careful when crossing the street because the drivers took no prisoners; and the bus from the con hotel to the hotel I was staying at took a really, erm, interesting route, aka "scenic tour of the red light district."

The official "red light district" isn't big enough for a scenic tour -- it's half a block long -they tour down the other house to build a police station. But there are two other streets where you can find a "date for rent". My ex used to have to drive to work at night and he would always come home and tell me about the ugly "ladies of the evening" on one of those streets. I went to work with him one night and had to tell him that the ones on that particular street were not ladies, one of them was the boy I grew up with.

[Bumbershoot]

Like the proverbial umbrella, I was born in Baltimore and raised all over the world. It was a good place to visit when I was in HS, but I wouldn't go back now. The Inner Harbor was given over to gangs, and Hausner's closed down.

All I know for certain is that if you need to go to the hospital, avoid Johns Hopkins and go to University of Maryland Medical Center.

[Ironclad Alibi]

The official "red light district" isn't big enough for a scenic tour -- it's half a block long -they tour down the other house to build a police station. ...

That has always been known as "The Block." Mrs. IA grew up in Baltimore. She lived on the same street as Blaze Starr. She and other kids would watch Blaze walk to bus on the way to work wearing her eye catching outfits.

Do you know the most irreverent corner in Baltimore? It's where Baltimore makes Light of St. Paul. (St Paul St. becomes Light St. when it crosses Baltimore St.)

[judecat]

Yeah, my birth mother worked on the block when she was young. I lived inside the beltway for 58 years.

[evilhomer]

I can't stand these racist assholes who make comments like that. If the roles were reversed, the media and a mob would be protesting the store for a month. Oh, but it's an "oppressed" person making the comment, so that's allright.