Here's to Lindsey

On Saturday night, Lindsey called me. She was at Roland's house and they were talking about the bart. No, not Marge and Homer's son, but the Bay Area Rapid Transit, Matt's hero and the train system that takes you into San Francisco from the East Bay. Apparently, Lindsey was explaining to Roland how the bart works and he didn't believe her when she told him "it goes in the ocean."

You're getting a visual, right? Like at Sea World, when you go in those underwater glass tunnels and see the sharks and tropical fish swimming around you hungrily...that must be what the bart is like. Nope, it isn't. I explained to Lindsey that it is a concrete tunnel and you never see a single drop of water. That train does not submerge into the water and then come splashing out, Little Mermaid-style, dripping wet. You enter an underground tunnel, somewhere on the Oakland side and stay in the tunnel while the train travels under the bay.

I'm not sure if Roland ended up believing her or not, he may have to see it for himself. I am just glad that I cleared up Lindsey's confusion by explaining exactly how the train travels through the ocean.

Don't worry, Linds, I wondered the same thing when I first moved out here. LOL