White steam, hot pizza, and El Ferrocarril Trolley

Well, on Saturday, with Matt's help, I bought something to haul the bike around in, a Ford Ranger.

Here it is parked in the Rees Stealy parking lot.

Today (Monday), we had to go pay for it, since they let ME just TAKE IT Saturday. M. and I met at the Credit Union and finagled around there untill we got a check. Actually two checks, and I would have to pay 56 cents cash since they wrote the checks wrong. So we headed down to National City and as we were turning onto I-15 I said someone is leaking hot water, smell that? And Matthew look at his temperature gauge and said it's ME! So we pulled off at Market street and jeed and jawed and finally called a tow truck to haul the car back to Clairemont. The tow truck guy FINALLY came, and was a little crabby at Matt's directions. But he load up and they left.

A shadowy Matt stands near the car on Market, in front of the Buddhist temple and across the street from the Filipino Veterans building.

I went to Pizza Hut, got a tiny expensive pizza for nurishment and change for a twenty. The place is totally encased in thick plexiglass. Must be a high crime area...

I walked over to the 32nd street trolley. I saw a Sunbeam Alpine and a Hillman (Minx, I think) on the same corner. I remarked on this to a guy standing there, he said "You don't know the half of it".

I caught the trolley back to the Credit Union, drove the truck to Nat. City, waited an hour, paid for the truck (the guy said keep the change, buy myself a soda). Drove back home. By then it was 3:20. Too late to go back to work. I had left work at 9:00 for a two hour tour....

A guy at the 32nd street trolley stop came up to me and asked "Espanol?" I said no. He said "San Ysidro?" I pointed to the button on the ticket machine and said "Azul" to him, as it is the Blue line. I guess he didn't trust me so he later found a Spanish-speaking person to ask.

I was reminded of this little ditty from seventh grade Spanish while waiting for El Trolley Naranja.

"Erre con Erre Cigarro
Erre con Erre Barril
Rapido corren los carros
Los carros del ferrocarril"

Translation:
"R with R" cigar
"R with R" barrel
Quickly run the cars,
the cars on the railroad.
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