Curses!

Since I've been cursed with curses and being self-cursed, I worry about curses (read my posting about the 10-car train). You can't ever think, Wow, BART's been running smoothly....the train hasn't been taken out of service, haven't had to get on a cattle car train, haven't been stuck in a tunnel for a while, and hey, it's been a couple of months since I was attacked by the loony lady! Nope, I can't think like that. And I'm really not a paranoid person. This is just how my life is. Curses and being invisible are my curses in life.

So yesterday I was minding my own business as I was going down the escalator in Fremont. Since generally I am invisible girl, I figured I was just as invisible then as I was in the past. I know some of the station agents on "good morning" and chatting terms, but I don't know the evening Fremont station agent that way. I still figure she's never seen me so I flash my Translink card around like a loon so no one will yell at me for going through the swing gates. When you get to know the station agents, you don't have to worry about that. You can just walk in and out. But when you don't know them, you have to watch yourself. I'm always afraid I didn't make myself noticed enough and that someone's going to run out of the booth and tackle me.

I scanned my card on the card reader, and the station agent was looking at me, so I looked at her, and she said, "You know, your card is the only one that works all the time."

Needless to say, since I thought I was invisible, this threw me off.

My brilliant response was, "Oh!"

She countered with, "Yeah, everyone else seems to have problems with their card except you!"

"Oh! Well, I've had problems," I told her. I seem to carry guilt around with me wherever I go, even with my Translink card working better than others.

"Really? You never seem to have problems."

So then it hit me. She cursed me!

"Now you've cursed me!" I told her. "Now I am going to have problems!"

She looked at me like I was a loon (I'm starting to think I am), and told me she hoped that wasn't the case.

I'll tell you, when my fancy new green Translink card croaks, I'll be making a visit to her. Curses....