Thank God, It's . . . Monday?
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Just 10 more minutes.
Please? It's summer, and it's not even dark out yet.
Come on. Please? We don't have to get up for school tomorrow.
So that was it. An extra round of hide-and-seek on a Tuesday night. Four more fireflies captured on Wednesday evening. A third grape popsicle licked just slow enough to catch each drip on Thursday.
And then, a few years later, midweek sleepovers. A first glimpse of Letterman.
An extended curfew after that, one that still wasn't late enough because you needed to drive around town one more time to see whether there was anyone interesting out.
During college, too, that first year you didn't go home for summer break. There was a job, of course, but not a taxing one, so mostly there was hanging out, sitting on porches waiting for word about which house down the street had just tapped a keg and was looking for a few more "flip cup" enthusiasts.
Two decades like that -- splashing about in an extra layer of fun whenever it grew warm -- and it's no wonder we expect more from our summers. That the phrase "Wanna go out tonight?" seems to start tripping off everyone's tongue more regularly come June -- even if we're still expected to show up in the office each Monday through Friday.
It's just less tempting to sit at home during summer, school night or not. Regardless of how many years it has been since "school" was a factor.
But alfresco dinners and outdoor happy hours -- wonderful as they are -- can fill only so many dusky evenings.
To avoid the same old, same old, we wandered around town checking out a few more weeknight options. Some, like the concerts at Fort Reno, are Washington institutions. Others, like the Sunday night parties at Modern nightclub, are relatively new experiments that will thrive or wane depending on the city's ever-evolving taste in entertainment.
So, wanna go out?
