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Jan. 11th, 2006 07:41 pmI have safely delivered ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cherylmorgan into the clutches of United Airlines for her flight to LHR. Her flight was scheduled for a 6:10 PM departure, and I waved good-bye to her at the international security checkpoint at about 5:15. When she called me just after 6 PM to tell me that they were starting to button up the plane and do the pre-flight rituals and so she was turning off her phone, I'd managed to make it as far south as Redwood City, and the real-time-traffic-status signs were estimating 22 minutes to Palo Alto (about 8 miles, I think). Whew! I think it took me something like two hours to drive the 35 or so miles from SFO to Fremont. Good thing the traffic hadn't been that bad at 3 PM when I drove home to collect her in the first place, or going to SFO.
On the earlier trip home, I heard a radio traffic report of a stalled car on the Dumbarton Bridge eastbound. "Oh, no," I thought, "I do not need this today!" But by the time I reached the area where the stall was reported, there was no stalled car nor any heavy traffic. Indeed, I was driving above the 55 mph speed limit on the bridge and was being passed on both sides. I called KCBS traffic and told them the stall was cleared and traffic was "above the limit." That wasn't worth a KCBS name-check (I get them from time to time), but they did amend their next report.
cherylmorgan into the clutches of United Airlines for her flight to LHR. Her flight was scheduled for a 6:10 PM departure, and I waved good-bye to her at the international security checkpoint at about 5:15. When she called me just after 6 PM to tell me that they were starting to button up the plane and do the pre-flight rituals and so she was turning off her phone, I'd managed to make it as far south as Redwood City, and the real-time-traffic-status signs were estimating 22 minutes to Palo Alto (about 8 miles, I think). Whew! I think it took me something like two hours to drive the 35 or so miles from SFO to Fremont. Good thing the traffic hadn't been that bad at 3 PM when I drove home to collect her in the first place, or going to SFO.On the earlier trip home, I heard a radio traffic report of a stalled car on the Dumbarton Bridge eastbound. "Oh, no," I thought, "I do not need this today!" But by the time I reached the area where the stall was reported, there was no stalled car nor any heavy traffic. Indeed, I was driving above the 55 mph speed limit on the bridge and was being passed on both sides. I called KCBS traffic and told them the stall was cleared and traffic was "above the limit." That wasn't worth a KCBS name-check (I get them from time to time), but they did amend their next report.
