Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Photo by David Lytle
We heard about a skateboarder making the most impressive exit on Muni yet. Via @robertranting:
@munidiaries #sfmuni 27 bus stuck in traffic. skateboarder thanks driver, jumps out emergency exit window, rides off #LaterDude
— RobertRanting (@robertranting) August 13, 2013
God, I wish I were that cool. Double points if his skateboard looks like this.
Photo by torbakhopper
Muni rider Jesse James wore his Little Mermaid backpack on the 38-Geary. What followed his backpack was a story that we wish didn’t happen, but it did.
Lately I’ve been called a “faggot” with much more regularity than I appreciate. Having the f-bomb lobbed at you in San Francisco is the definition of unexpected. Like a sunny afternoon in August, it’s just not something you plan for as part of modern city living. And yet, it happens. To me it seems to happen with a frequency that is beginning to trouble me. In fact, it just happened the other day. On the bus. On a Wednesday.
The morning was chilly and damp and the 38-Geary was completely packed, as per its usual wants. To combat the elements, the driver had taken it upon herself to crank the heat up to its upper limits. When matched with the panting exhalations of the four to five thousand passengers crammed into the coach, a Floridian, sub tropic humidity enveloped us all and created an environ that left my brow sweaty at 9 a.m. I’d been on the 38-Geary for less than five minutes when I felt a gentle tug on the strap of my Little Mermaid backpack. Wondering why someone was touching me on the 38 this time, I turned slightly to see who was molesting my belongs only to find an adorable, child-sized little girl grasping to the dangly bits of my pack. Read more
Found this great photo by Stephanie Tan on Tumblr. If I stare at it long and hard enough, maybe it’ll transport me to a day that’s not Monday?
Photo by Julian Walker
Showing out-of-town visitors around the city on Muni can be a mixed bag: Will this be the day when projectile vomit forces evacuation, or when a stranger brandishes the banana in his pocket? Fortunately, it was neither for rider Clay S.:
This weekend was the last weekend of my summer internship here in the city, and a few of my friends from college were in town. They were staying at my friend’s place a little north of the Haight, right on the Panhandle. I wanted to show them around town a little, and Dolores Park seemed like a good place for us to go, so I met up with them over there, and we walked over to the Haight to catch the 33.
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Photo by dlebech
BART won’t be striking on Monday, or for the next two months, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Today a San Francisco Superior Court judge ordered a 60-day cooling-off period requested by Gov. Jerry Brown.
More from SFGate:
The order, which will stay in effect until midnight, Oct. 10, blocks any repeat of the 4 1/2-day walkout in early July that snarled traffic and disrupted the commute of hundreds of thousands of workers across the Bay Area.
The cooling off period expires on October 10.
