Brian L. Colbert

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On Wednesday, around midday I was heading on BART over to the East Bay to check out this month’s Infusion.  I entered BART at the Civic Center stop, which is a loooong football throw from City Hall in beautiful San Francisco.

As I sat in the middle of the platform reading Holman Jenkin’s  column on the “Backdating Molehill.”  a couple (of sorts) sauntered past me.  They were either having relationship issues or he was a potential stalker.  Turns out it was a latter.  About five minutes later, I saw the young man shouting loudly at another man at another BART.  They were about 10 feet away from me and the young man was screaming, “Don’t try to run up on me.”  I was unfamiliar with the phrase, “run up on me,” but I quickly deduced that that young hoodlum, hooligan, ruffian, man thought that the other guy was trying to pick him up. It was also clear that that young man was completely out of his mind.  After a few minutes of shouting he began to madly flail and hit the other guy, screaming, “Don’t try to run up on me,” the entire time.

As I sat there, I wondered if I was watching a bizarre reenactment of Dan’s rather’s surreal, “What’s the frequency Kenneth,” experience.  As I sat humming they lyrics to,” What’s the Frequecy Kenneth by REM, a less contemplative BART passenger defused the situation.

Then to my surprise the man approached me, wildly gesticulating and screaming, “did you see him try to run up on me.  Taken aback, I relied up the time worn strategy of a warrior born in Fairfield County, CT … I hid behind my Wall Street Journal!!

And it worked.   It must have been the editorial page that scared him off.  Somewhere Robert Bartley is smiling.