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Thanks for the info, #sfmuni @sfmta_muni pic.twitter.com/v9F9nz6MbF
— brady (@peephole) June 14, 2016
I mean, not really. But maybe? Here’s another example:
#SFMuni getting pretty cryptic with their messages
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Do you speak this language? Can you translate for us? Should we be scared? Relieved? Help!
From the “I Wish I Loved My Job That Much” files comes the story of a Minneapolis bus driver who freaking loves the eff out of her job.
The Star Tribune has more about Angi Stevens, a five-year veteran Metro Transit transit driver:
“It’s been a hit,” said Stevens, 29, of Minneapolis. “Some people think I’m crazy. Others think it’s cool. Many people talk about it. I look down at this and say this is what I do and I’m really good at it.”
Stevens won Minneapolis’ bus “roadeo” (Muni started doing this again recently, btw—see here). The former bartender got the tattoo to celebrate her fifth anniversary driving the bus in Minneapolis. The whole Star Tribune story about Stevens is worth a read.
Stop everything and pick up your headphones right now, because this Michael Jackson impersonator is pretty much jaw-droppingly good. Watch his moves just glide across the BART station floor. Thanks to @msdominiquediamond on Instagram for taking this excellent video, guaranteed to make you smile and watch it a few more times.
I think I’ve seen him in other outfits busking near Montgomery Street station or Powell. Anyone know this incredibly talented performer?
Is that a banana in your hand or…OK, I’ll stop right there.
Whether it is LITERALLY a banana in his pocket or the oddly unsettling banana in the lap, the most phallic member of the berry family always sends our minds into the gutter when it shows up on Muni.
h/t @JeffElder
Ice cream carts can neither afford nor fit inside most Uber and Lyft cars, so…
Also, I’m thinking on hot enough days, dude should be able to sell his frozen treats right there on the train.
h/t Burrito Justice: “I’m liking this new ice cream BART car”
My skate muscle memories are firing in all directions. I spotted this rad Muni-themed skate deck last week, and had one of those “so happy I live here” moments. I remembered, growing up skating in Texas, watching great videos of SF street skaters like Tommy Guerrero, doing their thing on the crazy hills, sidewalks, and driveways of that mystical city I would one day call home.
Over on Instagram, Mike Richardson posted the photo: “One of the original 36 Muni skate deck graphics before the #sfmuni C&D and subsequent graphic modifications. #tbt #flowlab #2002”. Wow.
I got in touch with Mike to try and learn more about what had to be a great story. Here’s what he had to say:
That skateboard deck you inquired about was a 36″ Flowboard that we used to make and ride in Potrero Hill about 12-13 years ago. https://s-media-cache-ak0.
pinimg.com/736x/dd/5b/fa/ dd5bfa8efe4f88017b06cccca3fe9e 4d.jpg It had the Muni worm logo and we used to show them off to the Muni drivers who would drive us up the hills we rode down. At one point we got a letter from their legal department telling us to stop using the graphic so we modified the “muni” to read “flowlab” and printed that new version from then on. I can’t find an image of that board currently, but they come up on eBay once in a while.
Mike added:
You can read more details in this dated article: http://research.omicsgroup.
org/index.php/Flowboard (scroll down to Grassroots Activity)
Rad!