#19 - The Time Warp - 1985
This is the story of the other time that reality and the time-space continuum warped and Jeff and I were caught up in it.
We were going to the Warriors game. It's a 1.5 hour drive from Davis to the Coliseum so Jeff and I left about 2 hours before game time (we liked to watch the warm ups). We were driving along, Jeff had fallen asleep and we were in the desolate area between Benecia and Cordelia. My car sputtered and I looked at the gas gage and said "Oh shit." Jeff woke up and I told him, we're out of gas. I rolled to the side of the road and we hopped out, miles from anywhere. We stood there with our thumbs in the air trying to hitch a ride. Finally a pick up pulled over and we opened the passenger door. We hesitated hopping in, because the driver was dressed like a pirate. Big pirate hat, eye-patch, pirate shirt....you know like a pirate.
We had no choice so we hopped in with the pirate and asked for a ride to a gas station. He was pleasant enough, though he never explained his attire. He took us to Benicia and dropped us at the gas station. We hopped out thanked him for the ride and started walking in to the mini-mart. I then realized, I had left my wallet in the car on the side of the freeway. I asked Jeff if he had his wallet, NOPE, he had left his in the car as well. We did the only thing we could think of, we called Carter Stack collect. Carter was cool back then and said he'd come help us out.
So we were left with no money, hungry, at night waiting for Carter. I rummaged through my pockets and found $0.10. We went in to the mini-mart and asked what we could buy for $0.10. We were informed that packs of PEZ were $0.04. So we bought two packs. We then went out into the parking lot and sat waiting for Carter. It was dark out but a kid rode up on his bike, only his bike chain was two times two big. It was dragging on the ground. Very strange, I said "Hey kid, what's up with the chain?" He just looked at me and said "Don't go getting all loopy on me!" and then rode off slowly into the night.
Carter arrived, we got gas, went back and filled up my car and were off to the Warriors game. We were late so I was speeding through Orinda when a cop pulled me over. He gave me a ticket for speeding. We were again on our way. We were just hoping to arrive in time now for the 2nd half of the game. I got off the freeway in Oakland to get some gas and I got lost and we drove around the backstreets of Oakland for 20-30 minutes, for a while looking for the Coliseum. Jeff and I were depressed, figuring we'd miss the entire game.
Finally we arrived and hopped out of the car and ran to the entrance. We walked in just in time to see the jump ball. Only it wasn't a jump ball to start the 2nd half, it was to start the game. We were flabbergasted, felt like a couple of Osh Kinoshes, and quite befuddled and amazed.
Somehow, we passed through a timewarp on the way to the game. It's the only explanation! The drive is 1.5 hours, we were stuck on the highway and at the gas station for easily over and hour. We were pulled over by the cop for 15-20 minutes, and were lost in Oakland for around 20-30 minutes. We should have been arriving around half time, there was absolutely no way that we should have been there for tip off. Yet we were, the only possible explanation is we passed through a time warp.
Go figure!