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I had a feeling it wasn't going to work out. No one would call me a pessimist, but when I scheduled an Uber to pick me up,

deep in a Malibu neighborhood the next morning at 6 a.m., it just felt a little unlikely.

The next morning at 5.50 a.m., I slipped out of my friend's house, rolling my bag down the driveway

and out the gate. The app was promising that all was well, but by 608,

the app didn't look like I had hoped. There wasn't a little toy car headed my way. By 610,

the app did nothing but cycle, the Uber equivalent of Apple's beach ball of death. At 613,, I called my husband, in a panic. He was waking up

six hours north of me. He said, call a local limo service. I called seven. The soonest anyone could

pick me up would be an hour. I started walking as if I could get myself to the Pacific Coast Highway,

where I could, I don't know,

stick my thumb out. As I headed down a long road to nowhere, a truck barreled my way. Maybe I should

stick my thumb out, or merely take it as encouragement that after 23 minutes alone on a street,

the neighborhood was waking up. As the truck took a curve, I saw a pair of surfboards

in the back. I withered. Surfers, in my estimation, were unlikely to be people who would care about

LAX security lines and flying standby. I looked toward the driver and her passenger with the vaguest

sense of pleading.

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