TWTRCON 09

Stormy, here…

I made it to the conference this morning after what hust have been the worst cab ride in the world. Since BART was not running this early from East Bay, I had to take a cab from El Cerrito to the City. The cabbie I don’t think had ever been out of the county before. When we get to the Bay Bridge, he drives up to the toll plaza, drives up to the Fast Track booth… and parks the car.

He looks around for someone to give money to and tells me, with a shocked look on his face and says there is no one to take the money. I tell him he is in a Fast Track lane and I can tell that doesn’t register.

I point to an attended lane that takes cash since he does not have Fast Track in the car. So he BACKS the car up into oncoming traffic and tries to get in the right lane.

At this point I am just wanting to get out of car and run for my life.

Once in the city, I learn he can’t take direction. When I say the “exit is in the far left lane” he pulls into the right lane. So I repeat myself several times and then he jerks the car across four lanes to make the damn exit.

I get him going straight and I just want to get to Market Street with my life intact. Once I get out of the car, he asks me how to get back. Since he clearly couldn’t take directions, I just told him to go straight – I figure he will be safe once he runs out of land in North Beach.