it turned out that jogging up a steep city hill on a hot summer day in street clothes was somewhat different from jogging on a treadmill in an air-conditioned gym behind a row of taut fuck puppets , and by the time he got to california street , ray was drenched in sweat , and not only hated the city of san francisco and everyone in it , he was pretty much ready to call it quits with audrey and go back to the relative desperation of ukrainian girls loving him from afar .