Diary submitted by Muni rider Michael.

I was waiting for the train in the Montgomery station at 11:00 on a Thursday night.  Not too many people waiting – a couple sitting together, huddled and talking, a handful of individuals spread out doing their thing.

Down the escalator came a businessman – late forties/early fifties, wearing a suit, drunk but not blatantly trashed.  He meandered his way across the space and stopped in front of the seated couple.

“Oh, that’s beautiful….that’s beautiful.”  He wandered away as the couple looked at each other.  A few moments later, he wandered back.

“Excuse me. Can I apologize to you?”

“Uh…why?”

“Do you really want to know?”

“Errr…..”

“I thought she was retarded and you were being the good guy.”

The couple looked back, speechless.  The train was rolling up as this interaction was taking place, so without responding to the businessman, the couple got up and made their way to the train.

Sensing a failure to communicate, the businessman yelled after them, “I thought she was retarded!  I thought you were being the GOOD GUY!  GET IT?!”

I boarded the train as speechless as the couple.

Photo by Flickr user striatic.

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