Today I made my way to the San Francisco Caltrain station to catch the 6:14 pm baby bullet train. It is usually like “catch me if you can” situation when you try to coordinate the time with muni bus and or muni train. By the time you're there, bye bye bullet. <?xml:namespace prefix = o />

This time though, I made it in time, 14 minutes early but only to find huge crowd of people waiting to board the train. The train was sitting there' but the doors to the platform were closed. “Why they won’t open the doors?,” was the question written all over everybody's face. Some people began to worry about other trains, asking each other if anyone knew anything.

I fished out a Caltrain conductor and asked her what happened to the 6:14 train. She just kept walking.

Then I made my way through the crowd over to the Caltrain information booth. I asked the lady if they are going to make an announcement about the 6:14 train. She said “We are going to make an announcement when we know what's going on. Right now we are clueless. Just like you.”

I looked over to my right and told her that she could just step out of her booth and ask. But she already turned off the microphone. So she couldn't hear me. Or she acted like she couldn't.

Another commuter stopped me on my way back into the crowd and asked me “what did she say?”.   I told her that she said they were clueless. She shook her head and asked a rhetorical question “why they don’t talk to each other?”