The All-nighter On Saturday, I nearly died. I was at this party that my friends Eric and Susan threw, where we were all in this big open Muni train car in the city, riding around, singing Christmas Carols drunkenly at the tops of our voices and being very, very cold.
Muni cars run on electricity.
They have this big arm thing that pushes up to hook against electrical wires that are strunk up over the street. To change directions, the Muni driver has to move the arm from wire to wire, or rotate the big arm so that its facing the other way. So I was sitting in the car by the rail, facing front, chatting with Eric and Susan. All of a sudden, Eric and Susan's eyes got really big. Then I heard a thud.