Murphy's law still works!

Today was one of those days....everything that could go wrong, went wrong. R and I left home at 8.30 to take the train from Palo Alto into SFO to visit the Indian Embassy to pick up our Indian citizenship papers which supposedly have arrived. We got into the city at 10am and paid a cabbie $15 to take us 6 miles from the Caltrain station to the Consulate so we get there well before their noon closing time. We got there only to be told that our passports need to be mailed in to them and not brought in, in person. You'd think that since we were there they'd take them....???? But no, they insist we have to mail them in, so that was that!! Arrrggghhhh!!!Anyway, I refused to pay $15 to a cab driver to take us back to the Caltrain station and since we had decided to take the 1.37 pm train back to Palo Alto, we decided to walk back to the station. It ended up being a looong walk thru the slightly seedy shady part of town...finally we ended up on Market Street, i guess that would be the Park Avenue of SFO!! I took some pics of the strange sights of SFO...but its really a fun city. i would love to stay here for a few months sometime.
Then we came back to Palo Alto to make it in time for our 3 pm eye exams....(we both need new eye glasses) only to be told by the optical place that they would not accept our insurance cards (even tho they had told us the previous day on the phone that they do). So after some back and forth discussions between Lenscrafters and the insurance company and us, we cancelled and came home in disgust! Then again after much phone calling to the insurance company, we found out LC had made a mistake and could accept our cards...so we go back tomorrow! So all in all it was a total waste of a day....all R and I got was leg cramps from walking about 7 miles on the up and down roads of SFO !!!