disparate measures
I'm in San Diego this weekend for my Mom's retirement. This meant flying out of SF after work on Friday.
At Mountain View Caltrain we were delayed a couple minutes, someone'd suicide-by-train earlier in the San Jose area. Fair enough. We're on the train for one stop before someone kills themselves on the Northbound track and the train is stopped "indefinitely".
Indefinitely is a mighty long time, it's now 6pm and my flight is at 8:45. I'd planned on stopping in SF to sort out my affairs then BARTing right back to the airport, but it was looking like I'd have to go direct instead. It's highly unlikely it would take them over two hours to clean all the man-stuff off the tracks and get to Millbrae, but I've got the time, and sitting in a train is boring, so I elect to bike the rest of the distance to Millbrae.
El Camino is a shitty route to take, definitely, but it's the most direct and I don't have one of those fancy smartphones to look up directions. It took about 1:45. My coworker texted that the train had switched to local service and made it to Burlingame, meaning I beat them by one stop.
Then I noticed my phone had voiced to say my flight was delayed till 10pm. MLIA
At Mountain View Caltrain we were delayed a couple minutes, someone'd suicide-by-train earlier in the San Jose area. Fair enough. We're on the train for one stop before someone kills themselves on the Northbound track and the train is stopped "indefinitely".
Indefinitely is a mighty long time, it's now 6pm and my flight is at 8:45. I'd planned on stopping in SF to sort out my affairs then BARTing right back to the airport, but it was looking like I'd have to go direct instead. It's highly unlikely it would take them over two hours to clean all the man-stuff off the tracks and get to Millbrae, but I've got the time, and sitting in a train is boring, so I elect to bike the rest of the distance to Millbrae.
El Camino is a shitty route to take, definitely, but it's the most direct and I don't have one of those fancy smartphones to look up directions. It took about 1:45. My coworker texted that the train had switched to local service and made it to Burlingame, meaning I beat them by one stop.
Then I noticed my phone had voiced to say my flight was delayed till 10pm. MLIA