Category: diaries
Tourist/Vandal with a “Heart” of Gold
The look on the face of the woman behind Kissyface McGreta Garbo here is priceless. Without price.
“Tourist is drawing a heart in lipstick on the window of #sfmuni to pose for her friend’s picture. :/”
Via @nthistlethwaite.
Shoelace and Trashbag on Super Secure Muni Emergency Exit
Photo via Sergio CrazyPants Riccetti-Schubert
That’s the emergency exit hatch on a 22 Fillmore bus being held closed with a plastic shopping bag and a shoelace.
You might remember the SFWeekly report earlier this summer that detailed the maintenance issues at Muni, where fixes included the use of garbage bags. Pretty good advertisement for Glad bags.
Thanks for dropping this off on the Muni Diaries Facebook page, Sergio!
Muni’s a Topsy Turvy Mixed-Up World
This obviously means we should be Spider-Man-ing in the back half of the bus.
Good find from the Tenderloin Geographic Society. It’s no Please, Ho, but it comes pretty close (<– It gets me every. time, two-plus years later.)
Rules for Avoiding People on Public Transit
Photo by /\/\ichael Patric|{
Kim’s totally unsocial rules:
- Avoid eye contact.
- Lean against the window and stretch out your legs.
- Sit on the aisle seat and listen to music to pretend not to hear people asking for the window seat.
- Place a large bag or multiple items in the empty seat to make it time-consuming to move.
- Look out the window with a blank stare to appear crazy.
- Pretend to be asleep.
- Put your coat on the seat to make it appear already taken.
- If all else fails, lie: Say the seat has been taken by someone else.
While much of Kim’s research was done on long-distance bus rides, some of the same conditions apply to intra-city travel. And this rang all sorts of bells for us:
Kim found that the greatest unspoken rule of bus travel is that if other seats are available you shouldn’t sit next to someone else. As the passengers claimed, “It makes you look weird.”
Read more about Kim’s work, including what people tend to do when drivers announce a full bus, here.
How do you handle strangers on Muni and BART?
Weekend Photos: Ready for My Close-Up
Photo by @theartchives
We’re less than a week away from our second live show of the year, where you can hear true and hilarious Muni stories on stage. We’re always amazed and honored to see so many of you at our shows, but we know that occasionally the shows can become as crowded as a 38-L in the morning. So this time we’re aiming to do a lot better in terms of crowd control — we’re getting more chairs and staffing the door better so you have more breathing room to hear funny transit tales and share a drink or three with your friends and fellow riders.
Tickets are on sale now, so grab yours. We can’t wait to see you!
Enjoy these photos and your weekend!
Photo by @verodorozco
Photo by Daniel Hoherd
Photo by mgrace1201
Photo by Chantel Williams
And a bonus:
Photo by @fogcitykittie