I wish there were a starter packet for using the metro. I hate it when people say, "where do you want to go? Oh, that's simple, you just take the Orange line to Such-and-such station. Why couldn't you figure that out? It's so simple." No, that is not simple. That's an insider's language designed to call out the outsiders. I get there and there isn't just an orange line. The orange and green lines overlap. Don't get on the wrong train at the right terminal! Or maybe it's like the purple line, where you have to take the orange line to get to it, and everyone else already knows this, but they don't tell you that, they just say "take the purple line" and I'm left standing there freaking out that I can't see a purple dot on a sign in a poorly-lit cavern.

If I drive somewhere, all I need to know is where it is and where I am and I can eventually get there within 50% of the normal time to get there. Let's take this road that points towards where I want to go. That didn't work? Okay, let's take the next road that points to where I want to go. Unless you're driving around the Pentagon, which I'm fairly certain has had its road systems designed into the shape of a PENTAGRAM, then that will get you to where you want to go in the majority of the US.

And grand total is still faster than walking to the metro, waiting in line for the train to show up, and waiting for it to stop at every spot in between.