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In this video I'm going to tell you about how much money you need on your SmarTrip card to ride the Washington DC

Metro and how to load it up.

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afterwards, to see the tours that I offer. If you're new to this channel I actually have several other Metro videos

and I will leave a link to my Metro video playlist in the video description. If you have any questions about using Metro during your

trip, leave a comment on this video and I will try to help you out, otherwise,

let's get started... One question that I get asked a lot is "how much money should I load onto my SmarTrip card?" In my

previous video on the dos and don'ts of Metro, I

suggested buying a SmarTrip card with the $8 default value and topping it up as needed; however if you're coming to DC and you

know you're gonna be staying for a while, or riding the Metro a lot, it might make sense to add more money at the beginning.

Unlike in other cities, our Metro does not use flat fares. What you will pay

depends on how far you travel and whether you're riding during peak time around rush hour or not. For a typical visitor who is staying downtown

and using Metro to get to the major sites,

I would budget $2.50 per ride on average. $2.50

is a good starting point.

For some people it might be too much; for other people it might not be enough. So if you want to get really precise about

it you can actually use the Metro website to find out exactly what the fare is going to be

between two stations. So once you're on

www.wmata.com you're going to find the page for the station where you're starting your trip from. Scroll down a little and then click or tap

"Metrorail Fares" then from the drop-down box select the

station that you want to travel to. In this example if I wanted to travel from Capitol South to Arlington Cemetery

station I would know that it costs $2.50 during peak hours

and $2.20 during off-peak hours.

So if you're a really super organized planner you can look up all of the fares for the trips that you plan to take and

then use a calculator or a spreadsheet to

total them up. Now the next question that I get asked all of the time is

"should I buy an unlimited ride pass?" and my answer to this is almost always

NO

Psychologically we humans love unlimited stuff. The reason is because after you've paid that original amount

everything after that feels free - even though it really isn't. In my experience, most visitors to Washington DC

will not use Metro enough to make an unlimited ride pass worth it. Plus

they're generally confusing and even if they do save you some money,

chances are that that amount is going to be pretty minimal. So since you're not going to be using a pass,

let's say that you loaded your SmarTrip up with $8 like I suggested, but now you're running low,

what do you do?

Topping up your SmarTrip is super simple. Find a fare machine in any station and

start by tapping your SmarTrip up against the target. On the little screen it will tell you exactly

how much money you have on your SmarTrip card. If you have cash

it's as simple as just feeding it into the machine. If you want to pay with a credit card

you can use the up and down buttons to change the amount on the screen and then swipe your card to add it.

After you're done

you just tap your SmarTrip card against that target again to complete the transaction.

But let's say that you forgot to top-up your card and now you're taking a ride

but you don't have enough money on your SmarTrip to cover it. For example if you're taking that $2.50

Arlington Cemetery ride from the example earlier

but you only have

$2.00 on your SmarTrip card

when you go to exit, the fare gates actually won't let you out. What you're going to have to do is use one of the

Exitfare machines to add more money to your card. Now the big, huge annoyance about these Exitfare machines

is that in 2018 they are all cash only, so be mindful to either check your balance before you go into the system,

or carry some small bills with you. And lastly

let's say that you overestimated and overloaded your card

and now you have a balance that you didn't spend. Can you get a refund on your unused balance? The answer to this one is...

Maybe. On the wmata website it says that if you live outside of a 100 mile radius of Washington DC or Baltimore

you may be eligible for a refund on your balance and to contact SmarTrip customer support to discuss. Now,

I have never personally tried this because I obviously don't live a hundred miles or more away, and note that the words "may be

eligible" are quite vague, and

contact customer service "to discuss" is also rather vague, so whether this will actually work,

I have no idea, but if you have a large balance on your card, and you really want that money back

it's worth a try.

Alternatively there are some charities here in town that will accept a SmarTrip card with a balance on it.

They will use the balance to help the less fortunate get to job interviews, doctor's appointments, and that sort of thing, and I will leave

a link in the video description

to one of those charities if you have a smart trip card that you want to mail to them. And that's it!

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How Long to Do No Contact to Get Your Ex Back - Duration: 4:15.

Hey there, welcome back.

It's clay with modernlove.life and this is relationship inner game.

Today what we're going to be doing is we're going to be talking about how long should

you be doing no contact for.

Again, this really does depend on which type of no contact you're doing passive no contact,

active no contact, reverse psychology, "let's play" mind games no contact or uh, you know,

he opened the breakup no contact or you know, all kinds of different types, but I'm just

going to be moving forward assuming that we're talking about active no contact because that's

what I teach.

So how long should you be doing it?

And the main thing shouldn't be focusing on some specific number of days, like you know,

a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month, three months, five months, six months or anything

like that.

What you should really be thinking about is the quality of the interactions that you believe

that you'd be able to have with your ex.

So oftentimes it would be highly recommended that somebody would go into no contact of

any type because quite frankly, they are not having positive interactions with their ex,

you know, every time they pick up the phone and call their ex, they have an argument or

their walls them out or every time they text they're actually, they just get met with some

like, angry response or they're just no response whatsoever.

Otherwise, every time they're interacting they are having a worse and worse interaction

with them that is causing them to distance themselves from you emotionally.

OK.

What we're doing during active no contact is we are creating a new context where we

can develop the ability to interact with our ex in a way that actually brings us closer

together.

So you don't want to just kind of white knuckle it through no contact and hope that just because

some certain amount of days have passed, uh, that you're suddenly going to be able to have

a great impact on your ex.

So putting some time, make sure that you are doing something to actually have a great positive

impact on your ex.

That should really determine the length of no contact.

OK?

If you're making progress and you're developing advanced relational skills and you're able

to have stronger interactions with people that bring the two of you deeper, that allow

for more connection then you're making great progress and that could be a sign that, you

know, it might be, have been long enough for you to get out of no contact.

OK?

Especially if you also factor in the other reasons that you might do no context such

as personal healing from the break up and, um, allowing enough time for your ex's reactance

to sort of die down a little bit and all of that stuff.

OK?

But as a general rule of thumb, I would recommend that you would do active no contact for about

30 days, about one month.

OK?

This is by no means a strict rule that everyone must follow.

But generally I think that it's a good rule of thumb, a good starting point.

Some people might need more time, a very, very few people might need less time.

But it's a good starting point.

A good rule of thumb and you shouldn't really focus on the amount of time, so much as on

the quality of the interactions that you're able to have.

So anyway, that's how long you should be doing no contact for.

And that's how you should be thinking about it anyway.

Once again, this is clay with modernlove.life.

What you can do if you want to learn more about all of this is to head down below and

click the link in the description of this video.

And what that'll do is it'll take you to our website relationshipinnergame.com, where you

can tell us a little bit about yourself and your breakup and all that stuff.

And we'll start to send you some customized advice tailored to your specific situation

that will help you to get back together with the person that you love.

If you're watching this on our website in modernlove.life, if you click a link down

below this video, what will happen is that you'll be taken to a page that will tell you

a little bit more about some of our more advanced, more intricate, more guided trainings that

you can go through to help you get back together with your ex.

So once again, I hope that this video has helped you out.

If you, uh, would like to leave a comment in the comment space down below on Youtube,

I'm just go ahead and let me know what kinds of topics you'd like me to make videos on

in the future.

OK?

And of course, if you've enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe anyway, take care.

I'll see you next time.