Submitted by Muni rider Joey.
A few weeks ago, on the day of the big Prop H8 protests, I was enjoying a lovely day of shopping downtown with some friends. At the end of the day, against my better judgment, I decided to take the 31 home to the Richmond District.
I hate the 31. I’ll digress for a moment so that I can truly capture my 31 hatred:
In the evenings it’s overcrowded with loud teenagers and irritable shoppers, and both types speak really loudly on their cell phones. Plus, you get all the USF girls who are getting off of work from Abercrombie- I mean really, if you’re wearing leg warmers, it’s too cold for flip flops, dumbass.
But, I’m a true San Franciscan and being carless, driver-licenseless, and most recently moneyless (due to a stolen wallet), I took the 31 on a regular basis until I discovered rat woman. Now, I don’t know if anyone else has encountered rat woman, but once was enough for me. She’s your typical crackhead, only she carries around one of those tupperware filing boxes with a rat in it, and she takes it out ON THE BUS. I can deal with a lot of the menagerie you see on the bus — giant pitbulls, cats, even the occasional bird, but I draw the line at rats. I had not taken the 31 in months for fear that I would run into rat woman again.
So, back to the story:
On that ill-fated Prop H8 day when I decided to give the old 31 another try, we had passed through the Tenderloin without any rat sightings. Just as I was just beginning to relax on our trek through the Western Addition, out of nowhere the bus started violently shaking. I thought, damn it, this is the big one and I’m going to die on the 31 (keep in mind I had no identification due to the stolen wallet incident). I looked out the window and realized that there was no earthquake — the bus had actually been attacked by an army of children under the age of 12!
Two dozen little buggers had rushed the bus and shook it like heck until it became disconnected from the overhead electrical wires. Then the poor bus driver had to disembark and reconnect us. At first I was annoyed, but after reconsideration, I thought the army of kids were pretty funny. Several fellow riders commented on how this had happened to them several times on the 31. I was just thankful rat woman wasn’t on the bus- all that shaking and she definitely would have lost her grip on the thing.
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Wow, I’ve never had anything like that happen to me on the 31, that’s wild. I actually consider the 31 to be the relatively peaceful, quieter cousin to the 38.
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I have a terrible phobia of rodents, so I guess I am going to have to avoid the 31! The kids rocking the bus is pretty awesome, though.
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That is craziness. What could have possibly possessed those kids to do so unless they were zombies?
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You kids get off my lawn! Damn skateboard punks!
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Sounds like the 31. This is my line, too, and when I’m in a generous mood, it’s amusingly quirky and diverse. In one of my worse moods, it’s hell on wheels with terrible teenagers who think they own the world.
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I don’t mind rats but I have a phobia of 12 year-olds.
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