Story and photo submitted by Muni rider Charlie
So I just rode the 5 inbound at a very atypical (for me) time: early evening. A trio of quite loud, quite drunk kids got on at Fillmore and promptly took up a good portion of the back of the bus, where I was conveniently sitting. The duration of their ride was basically without incident, but when the 6th-7th Street stop came and went and the bus stopped at the 6th Street stoplight, things got interesting.
One of the girls stood up by the back door and started to get her friends’ attention by saying, quite colorfully, that they should get off here and not wait until the normal bus stop. Her guy (who was making out with her at one point in ride – oh, did I miss that?) said he didn’t want to get off. The whole exchange was loud and scared a family of mumbling tourists sitting in the back row behind me. They were going to get off there too for some reason, but elected to wait until the next stop (for safety and out of sheer terror).
The girl at the back door then started flipping out and screaming about how she wanted to get off there, then she punched through the manual door operation cover (ouch!) and pulled the door open. She and her boy took off leaving the third behind, who ended up getting off later.
The tourists then asked each other what happened, and did that girl break the bus. I told them they broke through the emergency exit thing, but that I don’t think it was an emergency. Their response? “It was for us.”
To commemorate the experience, I grabbed the biggest piece of the broken cover as a souvenir. I’ll break it if I need to escape.
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oh the poor tourist family cracked me up – Do you have a picture of your souvenir? That is too funny.
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Yup, here’s a pic:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VaqMT9P9qODbrRjCBo1OPQ
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Ha! Great picture – I added it to your post! The piece looks big enough to carry it around for protection…
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Yo, tourists are our major source of income. No tourists – no MUNI. Not funny to scare them off.
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It’s Muni that’s doing most of the scaring these days, I think. I certainly am a big believer in pointing them in the right direction, though.
Teenagers who get on buses near or on Fillmore (and there are many!) have to be the worst people in the world.
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I’m confused about the last sentence of the 4th paragraph. Who said “It was for us”? it couldn’t possibly have been the 2 drunk kids who got off the bus.
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