If you’re bored with tho ho-hum of vertical cable car rides over Nob Hill and down Russian Hill, then get on a trainee car. Ooooh yeah.

We were on (what I would later learn was) the Chinatown dip- on Jackson between Mason & Powell, when the car started going backwards. After about 15 dings of communication between the conductor & brakeman, a woman got off. “You scared her off.” The instructor told his trainee.

Granted, it was the first rain after a while and it was a very packed rush hour Powell-Hyde. But poor guy. I have to say- it seems like a really hard job. What’s amazing is that MUNI drivers have such an attitude, and then they get this promotion to train on the cable car, and it’s got to be the most humiliating thing to learn to operate these things in rain/crowds. It didn’t help too when som jack-a** SuperShuttle parks on the tracks on Powell, or people don’t move to the back. He did collect fares, though, and he got some transfer folks who didn’t understand one-way tickets.