Yesterday we went up to San Francisco again, just for kicks. As usual, it was raining and desperately miserable there (okay, not as miserable as Ithaca, but still miserable).

We had free passes to the Aquarium of the Bay. In short, do not waste your money on it if you’re in SF. It’s just a minimized inferior version of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. All the SF aquarium has is two water tubes you can walk through and some shallow pools where you can touch sharks. This, my friend, is a shame to the gauntlet of exhibits at the MB aquarium. Although I did get to touch a shark; it was a bit like squishy sand paper.

But, I digress. We traveled via Caltrain (first time!) to SF, since we ride free as Stanford students. The problem arose when we wanted to try out a pizza place on the south part of the city. We rode the Muni down to Potrero Hill and got some great pizza. We were a little worried about catching the 10PM Caltrain back to Palo Alto, but were fairly certain we would make it on time since we checked the bus schedule.

The rain was coming down hard now.

I calculated that it would take us at most 30 minutes to get back to the Caltrain, if anything didn’t go wrong. A wrong did it go.

The bus came around the corner, but then stopped short of our stop. Since the stop was the last on the route, we assumed that the driver was simply resting. It wasn’t until 15 minutes later did he start up the bus again. However, as it approached our stop the driver didn’t see us at all, and drove past us. We were horrified.

I didn’t even have words to express what happened. I just stood there, shocked. We ended up walking about half a mile in the rain, shouting profanities at the Muni system. Luckily we still made it to the Caltrain on time.

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