Despite a mid-morning Friday opening, the Glossier fans came out in droves.

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I hear the PR person say that the City Center building managers told them that if the line reaches Gucci, there’s going to be a problem (the line has almost reached Gucci). I am curious about how one tells people waiting in line for cookies that they’re causing a public disturbance.

The lines to vote in Dupont Circle stretched full city blocks. Voters got some last-minute campaigning from the candidates, and even some handouts from a church.

First it was cupcakes. And then food trucks. Now it’s fancy burger joints. We seem to have a thing for lining up to wait for food trends; the more widespread the trend, the longer the lines seem to get, ironically enough. A DCist tipster snapped a picture of the line today outside Bobby Flay’s new K Street burger joint, mere months after locals similarly lined up outside Dupont Circle’s Shake Shack. And just like…

We noted this morning that an escalator outage at Foggy Bottom was causing some problems for riders coming back to work after the holiday weekend. DCist reader Barbara Williams took the above camera phone shot, which shows precisely the kind of massive backup Metro riders experienced this morning.

It’s tough waiting for cupcakes, especially when it gets really hot out there. But are people getting so anxious for their afternoon treat that they’re forgetting to watch for cars? Maybe!

Holy lunch-lineapocalypse! Lines are snaking out the door and around the block at dozens of takeout joints across the District. Have they all decided to start selling $15 lobster rolls? No — it’s just today’s LivingSocial “instant deal” promotion, which has downtown office dwellers abuzz.

Look, I’m not going to lie to you: today has been one of the slowest days of the summer, news-wise. There hasn’t been nearly enough to satiate the news itch of a city of people who have spent the better part of the last two weeks wondering if a tree would crash through their home or if they’d be incinerated by huge plumes of flame shooting up from underneath the sidewalks.

Wondering what that big line around the Convention Center is for? We were too. Turns out that people have been queuing up outside the building since yesterday morning, documentation in hand, in order to get help with renegotiating and understanding their home loans.