Stuck on the Tracks!!!

It has been a tough week for Leina. She is currently cramming Japanese because he boss told her that she'd need to pass the Japanese language proficiency test in order to get hired because of that test score. And then she got stuck on the tracks.

One perk/problem with her current job is that she is often driving around town, making house calls. She usually drives a hot minivan type vehicle with a gold City of San Francisco emblem on the door, but Friday she was in an older Ford Taurus. When she was crossing Market Street, the car just died, exactly on the F-Market line. She panicked. This was right out of the movies! And then the F-Market streetcar started coming. She looked rapidly left, and right! Was she going to have to abandon the vehicle and watch it smashed to smithereens? It was getting closer and closer as she weighed what to do. And she didn't have her driver's license because of some long story (short version: Leina lost her ID on Thursday. Leina is hesitant to carry a purse or a satchel around, and instead prefers a bulging wallet which doesn't fit in her pocket. She often just pulls out her license and sticks it in her back pocket, which usually works, but this particular day, when she got home it was gone!).

Should she just grab her wallet and flee? She watched, paralyzed with fear, as the driver signaled for her to get off the tracks. She couldn't, the car was dead! Fortunately for Leina, the F-Market has a much shorter a braking distance than a fully loaded locomotive. The streetcar came to a stop a safe distance from Leina, ambled over to her vehicle, patiently listened as a near-hysterical Leina babbled on about how her car was making a noise and she was just trying to get it back to the lot and she can't believe it stopped here in the worst possible place in the world, and oh she's so sorry that she's inconveniencing all those riders... And this kindhearted driver, once she had calmed down, helped her push her car off the tracks, so he could continue on his route. Yay for Muni!

Leina then did the normal calling of the boss who called the tow truck and then she just walked the rest of the way back to the office.