A few years ago, I watched a huge delivery truck in the San Francisco Financial district…. where there are three or four narrow lanes in each direction, carved out of what should be two….loads of heavy city traffic with no let-up…pedestrians everywhere…
I say delivery truck cos I don’t know what to call it…. I’d say “a double semi,” but I think it was built a little lighter than what you see on the highway…All I know is there was a long second trailer hitched to the front one…I think all full of newspapers cos it belonged to the SF Chronicle.
It drove just past a tiny alley, in the rightmost lane, and stopped, till the cars behind had given up and gone around it, Then when a red light had stopped the next batch from driving up behind it, it backed up, turning the corner, perfectly, into the alley… backwards… in seconds.No mistakes, no back and forth, or re-dos.
I was in awe…. but when my friend saw the look on my face, she said “Oh they do that all day.”Whoa!
A few years ago, I watched a huge delivery truck in the San Francisco Financial district…. where there are three or four narrow lanes in each direction, carved out of what should be two….loads of heavy city traffic with no let-up…pedestrians everywhere…
I say delivery truck cos I don’t know what to call it…. I’d say “a double semi,” but I think it was built a little lighter than what you see on the highway…All I know is there was a long second trailer hitched to the front one…I think all full of newspapers cos it belonged to the SF Chronicle.
It drove just past a tiny alley, in the rightmost lane, and stopped, till the cars behind had given up and gone around it, Then when a red light had stopped the next batch from driving up behind it, it backed up, turning the corner, perfectly, into the alley… backwards… in seconds.No mistakes, no back and forth, or re-dos.
I was in awe…. but when my friend saw the look on my face, she said “Oh they do that all day.”Whoa!