About a week and a half ago, I was riding the California Cable Car, which gets a fair amount of tourists but nothing like its sister on Powell. A man got on around Hyde street with a large black bag. He was sporting, on his head, a dark plain baseball cap. He got in and we began our climb.
The cable car was destined for downtown but with one less passenger. As we got to the top of California street, it naturally got cooler (this is San Francisco). I immediately pulled down my own cap, then looked and saw the wind knock the plain cap off this man’s head and half a block away.
His response to the driver was the most casual thing I’ve heard in a long long time as if the drivers had a special service for this, he said: “Driver, I’ve lost my cap.” The driver stopped the cable car between stops. Then the man said, “Driver, I will be right back.”
The driver explained to the passenger that he needs to keep going. The passenger nodded then exited the bus. The driver began laughing. He looked at me and said, “Can you believe how casual he said that.” “Yeah,” I said. “I was waiting for you to offer him a cup of tea, to go with his assumptions.”
Photo by Flickr user Alkhalifa.imaging
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