"After admiring the painted ladies in Alamo Square, trekking down Clement with hauls of books and coffee, and devouring noodles at our beloved Chinese lunch spot, we gifted our daughter the quintessential San Francisco experience: a cable car ride from Market Street to Ghirardelli. We'd end the afternoon with hot fudge sundaes and a view of the Canadian Snowbirds streaking overhead."
"As we reached the final stop, the conductor playfully asked my daughter her age, then grinned and invited her to ring the bell six times. She did-each clang proud and delighted. But seconds later, as she was still giggling, one of the men hauling a large camera approached us with a hurried stance, asking my husband if we'd step aside so he could film his partner hanging from the car."
A family traveled from Nashville to San Francisco for their annual visit and enjoyed city landmarks, books, coffee, noodles, and a cable car ride from Market Street to Ghirardelli. Two couples on the same car treated the ride like a produced shoot, smoothing outfits, retouching makeup, and rehearsing lines. The conductor invited the child to ring the bell six times, delighting her, until a cameraman asked the family to step aside so he could film his partner. The interaction turned an authentic family moment into incidental background and highlighted a clash between spontaneous joy and staged performance.
Read at Psychology Today
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