Unfortunately not in a "South Park" kind of way.
I'm at the Walnut Creek BART station, and I'm wheeling my bike to the gate to exit. I'm seeing a bunch of guys in suits heading to come in, but they're swinging wide of the over-sized gate (for bikes and wheelchairs and people with large bags, and sometimes, just large people).
Except for this one guy.
The first mark against this guy is that he looks like Marco Rubio. The second is that he's walking fast toward the large gate. The third is that he's seen me, and is trying to beat me there.
You see, the over-sized gate is the only one that is the most fitting for the San Francisco Bay Area, because it goes both ways. And whoever uses it first sets its direction for a few seconds and then it rests to accept riders from either direction.
And what happened was that both of us touched our Clipper cards to the sensor at the same time, And that essentially shut the gate down for a few seconds. I stood there until he moved on to another gate, then tried again, and it still wouldn't scan me. So I moved on to another gate, lifted up mu bike and exited.
All because he couldn't be bothered to walk a couple more steps to a one way gate.
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