General Discussion

We had just landed in San Francisco for the start of a very strenuous (we didn't understand HOW strenuous) summer vacation. We got into SFO late, and plopped into bed. At about 3:30 AM, the bed started shaking violently, and my wife, still groggy from the air travel and the 9 hour time difference, said, oh no, the washing machine is going crazy again! I reminded her, relax, we're in San Francisco, so it's probably just an earthquake. NOW she was wide awake, saying whaddya mean JUST an earthquake? Are you being serious? I said, yes, they have them all the time here. Go back to sleep. The shaking stopped and so she was soon fast asleep again. The next morning, she told me, she had the weirdest dream last night, that there was an earthquake, and I told her that whatever her dream was about, the earthquake was real. She was not amused.