Only in America

I work in a federal building a block from the White House in Washington, DC. Today we are in lockdown because the President himself is coming to do some official function or other, thus disrupting the normal workday (at least until sometime after lunch, or so we are told). I should also add that a large number of homeless people congregate outside this building. I am guessing it is because of its proximity to warm air coming up from the Metro system.

So, as I was leaving the building through the secondary entrance, I could not help but notice a female homeless person, urinating on the decorative plantings that surround the building. Somehow, it just all made sense.