Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Cute, cool, rad, awesome, bitchin’ … I could go on, but I’ll just step back and let Muni rider Beth take over:
Normally I don’t like loud music on the bus, or funk, but an old dude was blasting this today and singing along and saying “welcome aboard!” to new passengers and it was kind of perfect.
I take issue with Beth’s use of “kind of” here, but that’s just me being all literal and shit.
Have a great weekend, fellow Muni voyagers!
As loverlykiki on Instagram says, “Put your best foot forward.” Especially on Muni, when half the time we end up staring at our own feet or others’ feet.
Props to loverlykiki for sharing an important message, and props to this phat skateboard deck. Could it be half of an original Santa Cruz Screaming Foot?
Anyone who has taken a bike on BART knows it means hovering over your bike while trying not to crash into anyone else while the train is moving. BART has a new idea for you: straps that hold your bike in place. SFGate reports that a new test program has installed two types of fabric straps (either velcro or a buckle) in 60 BART cars.
Cyclists: Have you tried these new straps and how are they working out for you?
Photo courtesy of BART
*Deep breath*
Ahhhhh … remember when? When, you ask? Back when we eagerly upgraded from clunky (but oh-so-awesome) Walkmans and Discmans to Apple’s shiny, sleek, magical “iPod”? Back when, well, first of all, back when we read books. And there were these dinosaurs roaming our cityscape called “bookstores.” And we could morph into Scully or Mulder with a freakin’ flappin’ flip-phone.
Those were the days, indeed.
Muni rider Jack rode a 6-Parnassus last week and his bus had ads for ALL. OF. THE. ABOVE. A true mobile museum, that.
If you had to peg a date for these ads, what would your guess be? Mine is late-2004. Like, maybe right after Bush the Younger was re-(but really for the first time)-elected*.
Jack says:
I saw these ads on a 6-Parnassus yesterday. Yep, in 2016. It hit me right in the feels. If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be listening to From Under The Cork Tree.
Thanks, Jack!
*Or not?
File this one under “things being where they’re not supposed to be.”
Via the Muni Diaries Facebook page, Muni rider Jack sends this:
Hey Muni Diaries, my brother sent me this photo of a J-Church Breda car that accidentally turned right onto Market yesterday. It makes you wonder—after the new trains come, will the Bredas be historical F-line material?
Today becomes tomorrow’s yesterday. Or something.
@chuinonthis on Instagram reminds us to stop and smell the roses.
“Totally smells like” isn’t always the, um, tastiest or most nose-positive Muni meme we’ve encountered in our travels, but we like being reminded of niceness to be had right in front of our noses. Like strawberries.
Tell us what your Muni smells like, won’t you? We’re @munidiaries on FB, Insta, and Twitter.