Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from California who looks like a guy born in a blue suit, had an experience familiar to many San Francisco residents.

Someone broke into his car in a parking garage and stole his suitcases, which included U.S. Senator-type suits. If Schiff had six identical blue suits in there, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Schiff, of course, had to go to a fundraising dinner that night and gamely wore a very un-Adam Schiff hiking vest and a regular person shirt in a room full of suits and ties.

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Lee Houskeeper, who apparently is the most ubiquitous San Franciscan since Herb Caen and is working as a publicist for super hitter San Francisco attorney Joe Cotchett, noted that “I guess it’s ‘Welcome to San Francisco.’ ”

Schiff told Houskeeper he had been in a hurry and didn’t want to be late.

I think a lot of us can relate. In 2017, a car burglar broke into my battered Ford F-150 while my wife and daughter were attending a heartwarming show by Garrison Keillor, whose weekly Minnesota Public Radio program “A Prairie Home Companion” (1974-2016), of course, brought up all my Minnesota boyhood feelings about the........

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