Chance meeting on the cable car
Submitted by Muni rider Daniel Seraph
Riding on a cable car going up Powell through Chinatown, the driver waved to an older woman with a toddler who were standing on the street corner. He had a big smile on his face as the woman waved back to him. He was beaming as he wrenched the brakes, throwing his entire body weight into it. He turned around and said to the passenger closest to him:
Did you see that lady back there with that child? Well, years ago when I was driving this same cable car, a woman pushing a baby carriage was riding in my car. She got off the cable car but somehow the cable car started moving with the baby still onboard! She chased after the cable car but she wasn’t fast enough. So she flagged someone down to give her a ride to chase after this cable car. Finally she got me to stop and she was reunited with her child. Well this woman and I became friends, and her baby girl – the one who was left in my cable car – grew up and ended up marrying my son. And that little kid with her just now? That’s my grandchild.
This was one of the most charmed Muni moments in my life. I don’t know how else to explain it. His happiness and pride made me feel like a million dollars.
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wow. this is one of those stories a) where you really don’t know where it’s going, and b) you don’t care if it’s true or not. amazing. bill-o won’t ever hear a story like this in his long island bungalow.
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awww…
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Shenanigans!!!!
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oh why so skeptical? I am allergic to public displays of affection and lovey dovey chick flicks, but I still want to believe that this is true…
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It is absolutely true. Let me tell you one you’d believe: someone threw a rock out of a bus window once, hitting me in the forehead, giving me a welt. Somehow this story is more believable though.
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