\nSo. A story.\n<\/p>\n
\nA rather scatterbrained young man is at a party in San Francisco.
\nHe spends much of the evening talking to this really attractive, intelligent,
\nnice woman. She’s a usability engineer. He’s a web-guy who is forced by the
\ncircumstances of his job to pretend he’s a usability engineer. She is
\ninterested in ancient Western civilization. She has read up on Asperger’s
\nSyndrome. They have plenty to discuss.\n<\/p>\n
\nShe’s not a SF local, and she mentions she needs some guidance to find Hwy 101.
\nHe says he has the same problem. They both laugh. SF is confusing. They ask around and
\nget directions for finding the freeway. Still, she sounds a bit hesitant. He promises
\nher that he understands the directions and that she can follow him out.\n<\/p>\n
\nSo they walk to the parking lot. She has his contact information. There is vague
\ntalk of getting lunch. They say good night, and he gets into his battered Sentra.\n<\/p>\n
\nHe drives out into the parking lot exit. She pulls up behind him. He heads out,
\nturns left onto the one-way street. Drives a few blocks, stops at a traffic light.
\nShe stops behind him — close enough that he is no longer blinded by her headlights.
\nAll of a sudden, he can see through her windshield in his rear-view mirror.\n<\/p>\n
\nIt’s not her. It’s some forty-year-old guy who has been behind him the whole time.
\nHe has left her back at the parking lot. He has ditched her. Casually stranded her
\nin an alien city.\n<\/p>\n
\nIt is a long drive home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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