Missed Connection — Brainy Raiders Fan on the 45 10.12.09
Photo by Flickr user Photostat
Rider SlayerLady sent us her Craigslist Missed Connections ad, perhaps in hopes of finding this cutie who keeps up with football AND world affairs. If you’re out there and want to get in touch with SlayerLady, you know who to email.
Here’s my MUNI MC that I posted a few weeks ago–I just saw the ones that you compiled for your site. I only got a response from a Raider-hater but hey, at least someone read it. :)
original posting:
Raiders Beanie & Reading The Economist on 45 Union – w4m
You were sitting towards the back of the 45 bus around 9:30 AM. I spotted the Silver and Black beanie right away and was intrigued to see you also reading The Economist. (A favorite of mine, but I’ve let my subscription lapse in these hard economic times.) The combination of someone with the intelligence and inclination to read this publication paired with your preference for the “Hell’s Angels of Football” is an intriguing mix. And a few tattoos peeking out from your short-sleeve, button-up shirt too? Even better!
I would have taken a seat so I was facing you to smile and start up a conversation but you were getting off the bus at Union and Columbus just as a good seat across was freed up. I thought you might have been looking my way through your shades as I gave you the eye intently from the back row (Red-blonde hair, pink fleece jacket, blue hat). I don’t usually take the bus at this time of the AM so I hope you or someone you know reads this–or I’ll just have to have a delay of game in the morning again that leads to my relying on MUNI!
Got a Muni missed connection over the weekend? We’d be glad to play matchmaker.
Weekend Photos: What a week it’s been 10.09.09
Photo by Tangobaby
In Muni news, this week served up the following:
- Geary Bus Rapid Transit Project in Jeopardy? (Streetsblog SF)
- Newsom Parking Meter Story is Not a ‘False Controversy’ (Streetsblog SF)
- Savings from Muni Service Changes May Not Prevent Additional Cuts (Streetsblog SF)
- (Tuesday) Muni Service Disrupted After Post And Kearny Bomb Scare (SF Appeal)
- Better Real-Time Maps Coming Soon to All Nine Muni Metro Stations (Streetsblog SF)
- Painting Torpedoes (Part 5: Something Completely Different) (Market Street Railway blog)
- Second Melbourne Tram Joins San Francisco’s F-line Historic Streetcar Fleet (Market Street Railway blog)
- And of course, the one we helped thrust into the limelight: The Muni Fisticuffs
But enough news. Let’s look at pretty pictures as we get ready for the weekend, eh? These are all culled from the Muni Photos Flickr Group.
Photo by Flickr user justvisiting
Photo by Flickr user fred zilla
Photo by eviloars
Enjoy yourselves, and we’ll see you back here Monday!
Muni Mind Reader: The Cougher 10.09.09
Photo by Flickr user davitydave
It’s been awhile, but she’s back: The Muni Mind Reader, in all her extrasensory perceptual glory. This week, she explores the thought patterns of someone we’ve all witnessed (or been), especially this time of the year — the cougher. Cover your mouth, please!
Cough.cough.cough.
Sorry. This here cough, really, it’s nothing. It’s just the slightest [cough] tickle [cough] that [cough] I [cough] have [cough] in [cough] my [cough] throat [cough] at [cough] the [cough] moment. It’s ALLERGIES. I swear it’s just allergies. There is a LOT of pollen in the air.
Excuse me [cough], I just need to have a seat [cough] over here. I can’t stand up [cough] and cover my mouth [cough] at the same time. That’s better. Sigh. Let me see if I can’t find a cough drop here in my bag or something that’ll quiet this thing down. Oh look! A honey-flavored cough drop, this will most definitely do the trick!
COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH.
Whoa! Where the hell did that come from? Hey, don’t look at me that way. You saw that I put the damn cough drop in my mouth! COUGH COUGH COUGH. Dang it!
Thank you ma’am, I really appreciate your offer for another cough drop; in fact, cherry-flavored ones do happen to be my favorite, but I am sucking on it right now. See?! Isn’t honey supposed to be the most soothing lozenge of them all? No, please, don’t look at me that [COUGH[ way [COUGH], it [COUGH] is [COUGH] not [COUGH] nice!
OK LOOK YOU HAVE ALL BEEN HERE BEFORE! I really didn’t think this wee little tickle was going to turn into this! Imagine how I feel. I can’t even breathe!
AHHHHCOUGHCOUGHCOUGHACKCOUGHCOUGHACKCOUGH.
All right look, I understand where you are coming form. Who wants to get sick, right? COUGH. But I swear this [COUGH] is about to [COUGH] pass. Save your judgments for someone who is really sick.
Oh, for crying out loud. Hello people, it’s not like I have swine flu, OK. Or maybe I do, it’s like, it was summertime, and all the kids were out of school, so obviously the number of reported cases decreased significantly, and I heard that taking the vaccine could pose more severe side effects than the actual H1N1 strain, and like, I once had a tetanus shot and my arm was sore for days…but I am sure it’s nothing!!! And I am sure if you just look the other way you will be fine. What would you like me to do anyway, wear one of those stupid-ass masks so I look like I am living in a post-apocalyptic world where robots have replaced humans, but we totally don’t know it unless we’re really good computer hackers?
I still need to take the bus just like you do. You don’t expect me to walk around in the cold do you? My swine flu…COUGH, I mean this tickle in my throat would just get worse.
Phone call! Hey [cough] [slurp]. No, I’m [cough] [slurp] just on the bus. I might be [cough] [slurp] getting a little bit of a cold. I think it’s just [cough] [slurp] allergies. It’s a cough drop [cough] [slurp]. Oh hell yeah. I have had a rough week at the office [cough] [slurp] and I am ready to blow off some steam. Sweet, let’s just take BART [cough] [slurp].
Faith in Muni Restored — at 6:30 AM 10.09.09
Photo by Flickr user Octoferret
I walked up to catch my bus this morning but saw it pull in to the stop just as the light changed. I was going to miss it, and that was oddly okay with me today. I wasn’t in a rush, no one else would be at work for a while, it was fine.
The light changed in my favor and I crossed, wondering why the bus was still idling in the stop. Then I saw the driver, one of my regular drivers, gesturing for me to hurry up. I ran across and climbed in.
“Sorry,” I said, “I didn’t think you would wait.” “Well, you’re one of my regulars, honey,” she said, smiling. “I wasn’t gonna leave you.” “Thanks a lot,” I told her.
When I got out of the bus at my stop I waved to her to say thanks again, and she waved back, a whole body kind of wave, like you’d do at a sporting event or a big concert, with both her arms.
If you read this, jaunty-fedora-wearing-38L-driver, you made my day.
Muni Fisticuffs (update with partial translation) 10.07.09
Update:
Got a partial translation from a Chinese-speaking source. According to our source:
The two women started having an argument about an available seat. As the clip progresses with both women arguing, saying “Fuck you” and “you’re stupid,” a bystander said in Cantonese something akin to, “Don’t get excited, talk to her slowly.” According to our commenters, more than one bystander could be heard saying, don’t fight, don’t fight. As the argument escalated and the women begin physically fighting, a second bystander said in Cantonese, “Hit her, hit her, hit her, hit her until she’s afraid.” Then a third bystander pulls them apart as you can see in the video clip.
This whole exchange is really disturbing. Can anybody else verify what was being said?
- Eugenia
Original post:
Okay, this is really ugly. But we couldn’t not post it, could we?
We’re working on getting a translation for the lady not speaking English. We’ll update this post as soon as we get that.
(Thx: @ActionNewsSF and @pereljon)
Obviously, Muni thinks Muni sucks 10.07.09
Photo by Flickr user Jonathan Bowerbank
Just happened to stumble upon this gem from the SFist tips while looking at Flickr photos submitted to SFist:
On the N-Judah around 5:40pm Monday, the train fills all the way up at Embarcadero then at Powell or CC there is no room for anyone else to get on. The driver makes several announcements that if you can’t fit in then step back so the doors can close and everyone else can get home for dinner.
There is a pause while someone near the front (presumably) says something critical about Muni’s scheduling ability or lack thereof.
The driver, over the PA: “Yeah I think so too. Tell the CEO that”.
Another pause.
Still on the PA: “Call the Muni information desk and they will give you his number.”
Find any juicy Muni nuggets (ewwww!!!!) online? Send them here, please.
Rug for Muni Lovers 10.06.09
Muni rider Chibbs alerts us to this must-have area rug for Muni Diaries headquarters: A $3,000 wool rug bearing the image of a Muni transfer.
From the dark corner of the internets, Chibbs found Swedish artist and interior decorator Carouschka Steijffert, who designs this rug as well as rugs bearing the image of the Milan and Copenhagen transit tickets. Muni historians out there, help us out: Is this a transfer from the days of yore?
And also, dear, dear reader: If you or someone you know purchase this rug, please, for the love of God, let us all know. A photo shoot would be in order, stat.
Tagger arrest (from outside) on the 14 10.06.09
Photo by Troy Holden
We’ve had plenty of public speculation as to SFPD’s patrolling of Muni, or lack thereof. Monday, though, the Ingleside police station chief’s daily report included a tagger getting arrested by a cop who wasn’t actually on the bus at all:
7:59 pm Mission @ Trumbull Graffiti arrest
Officer Hurwitz was on undercover patrol. The officer was stopped at a red light next to a bus. The officer looked up and saw a suspect writing on the rear window of the bus. The officer quickly stopped the bus and took the suspect into custody. Report number 091022362
Newsom-Muni-Parking Meters: It’s getting ugly in here 10.05.09
Photo by Flickr user myelectricsheep
SF Weekly has a nifty play-by-play of sorts detailing the long, drawn-out drama involving our broken public transportation system, and suggested studies of ways to keep the thing afloat.
Muni Diaries isn’t taking sides in all of this, of course. We’d simply like public transportation to be affordable. That, and we feel like good ideas are worth exploring further. Good ideas like extending parking-meter hours in an effort to let those who choose to drive help pay the way for those unable to do the same, which his Gavination seems to be against. Even studying the aforementioned.
Oh, and the obligatory Gavin joke: Wait, he’s still the mayor?
Black Stripe Tattoo on the 31 – is this you? Muni Missed Connections of the Week 10.05.09
Photo by Flickr user ashleyniblock
The weekend brought a round of amusing Craigslist Muni Missed Connections, courtesy of tattoos and LoveFest.
Black glasses, black stripe tattoos on arms… – m4w (31 Muni Bus)
“You only got on the Muni briefly, and got off at the college. Your left arm has one fairly solid, wide black stripe tattoo on it, the right arm had what looked like 2 or 3 thin solid black stripes, and you were wearing a white tshirt, jeans and black glasses.
You’re beyond cute….like, way beyond cute!!!
I wonder what it’d take for a guy like me to take you out for a drink or something….”
I really love it when Missed Connections are, like, long, semi-drown-out conversations.
“You and I held the same bar… in that crowded muni. I think you are beautiful. I doubt if you noticed me. Coffee?” (italics, ours)
The same bar??? Uh, cute.
Girl in the red hat – 71L at 8:30 am – m4w (haight ashbury)
“Normally I pass on MUNI, but this morning I took the 71L downtown. We sat next to each other, eventually. I’m groggy in the mornings, but wanted to say I thought your nail polish — a funky blue color — was pretty cool. That’s all.”
Could a chance ride and some funky nails be the seeds of romance?
29 Bus – Sunset/SFSU – m4w – 22 (sunset / parkside)
“I see you on the 29 bus a few times a week, both in the morning on the way to SFSU and in the afternoon on the way home. More often than not, the bus is crowded and we end up at opposite ends, so I figure this is the most convenient option for the time being, since it doesn’t require me yelling over the heads of fellow muni riders at you, a girl I’ve yet to meet. I’m not sure we’ll ever talk, but you’re almost excessively cute and catch my eye every time we ride.
Here’s to seeing you tomorrow!”
College love. Charming.
“You got on the bus, I forget where, I had 2 of my buddies with me, and we all had bikes. I saw your friend, who I thought was cute, then I saw you. I normally am not attracted to redheads, but you are gorgeous. Perfect face and beautiful hair. Cute style, and red painted toenails with white snowflakes or stars? lol not sure. I looked up at you a couple times, and we made eye contact, but just felt weird that you were with your friend and I was with mine. Then as I was getting off the bus you definitely gave me an amazing smile through the bus windows. Doubt you will read this, but you are amazingly beautiful. So if you do. I’m Shaun. Tell me what I was wearing and what I looked like.”
A night of browsing for Muni Missed Connections simultaneously makes me believe in both chance encounters and total wastes of time. It’s the romantic/cynic in me.
If you’ve spotted a hottie, attainable or not, on Muni lately, let us know.
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