Yesterday many, many, many people like myself in the DC area and I’m assuming probably around the country were left paperless. It seems like everyone wanted to chronicle the historic Presidential Race victory of Barack Obama so the result was you couldn’t find a Washington Post newspaper in the entire city. There was actually a line a few blocks long at Washington Post headquarters waiting for them to reprint more papers which they did I heard, but those went like flapjacks too. While on the way home I thought I finally had my chance. I heard on the radio that papers were being delivered between 7-9PM at 5 or 6 different store chains one of which was close to my house. I swept in to get my paper and noticed a few sistas standing at the customer service desk. Of course the paper rack was empty so I thought maybe they hadn’t come in yet, this is the burbs and all, but on the way out I heard them telling the sistas that the new ones were already gone too.
For now this is the best we have, the image above that I got off of the Post website. They’re selling a reprint for 65 bucks but I’d rather have the 1.50 version, it’s a little lighter on the pockets.
BMWK were the papers in your city sold out? Did you get one? Did you collect some other type of memorabilia to remember the victory? Let us know.