flights

Sunday, I participated in Bay To Breakers, a world class foot race that has morphed over the years into a kind of ad hoc parade. Some people still run the race, but many more people “celebrate” the race.

They wear costumes or nothing at all. They build contraptions for carrying and serving beer.

I travelled with my friend Jeff and a group of people whose theme was a made up pharmaceutical called Placebox (“Pla-cee-box”), the underachiever’s drug. We were semi-linked to a group of stewardesses for Mile High Airlines.

Our time for the race was in the six-hour range.

When people from most places dress in costume – for Halloween say – it’s an opportunity to take on a fantasy identity. San Franciscans see dressing in costume as an opportunity to reveal their true hidden nature.

That’s my theory anyway.