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Photo by –Mark–
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Category: Funny: Muni LOLs
Best Muni Tweets of the Week
Photo by @rgreenberg: “This cat’s stylin a Stacy Adams suit on #muni 31 balboa”
The @munidiaries Twitter feed is a constant stream of amusing moments on the bus. This week the tweeple of San Francisco saw some wild animals and an accordion man!
Meanwhile, on @munidiaries:
Outbound J: Guy carrying caged wild squirrel that was eating his garden, en route to release it somewhere with lots of trees. (@mrfb)
Dude is playing songs from Amelie in Civic Cntr#Muni station. Thank you #accordian man, you just made my rainy day. (@HereInSanFran)
Overheard on the Muni: “Do you know who Rihanna is?” “Nope.” (@brenden)
I literally screamed “YES!!!!” out loud in the Muni after I saw people selling Girl Scout cookies by 19th and Holloway (@unfastened)
OH on the Muni: an 8 year old girl asking her older sister “what’s Minesweeper?” #wearefossils (@turnerator)
Follow us on Twitter, tweet your ride to @munidiaries, and let us know what’s up!
Clipper tagging as performance art
Photo by Brian_Brooks
Dude boards thru bus back door. Mimes holding a card to the clipper reader and then fakes the payment beep by saying BEEP in a truly lousy falsetto. it worked.
Huh. Your falsetto game doesn’t even have to be on to win Clipper? Who knew?
Our Facebook page is just one more place for you to share your Muni stories. Go for it!
People I See on Muni — from Tales of Mere Existence
“38 Geary, 6 a.m.: I see this guy on the bus every morning when I used to work at a coffee shop. He’d always sit in the front of the bus, and when I would get on, I would sometimes thumble a bit because I never had an easy time getting my dollar bill to fit into the fare machine. Anyway, this guy would watch me, close his eyes, and shake his head, because clearly I was the biggest moron who everwalked the earth.”
I love his animation and storytelling, so I highly recommend checking out his short clip above. The Rumpus also did an excellent interview with Yilmaz last year.
Hat tip: Milk and Cookies.
Bring Your Own Seat While Waiting For Muni
Photo by Jayne
Kind of reminds me of this photo that we’ve seen before of a man waiting for the bus on his own comfy seat:
Photo by davitydave
And this sodden couch for anyone waiting for the 22-Fillmore:
Photo by Jason
Or if you’d like to swivel around while you wait…
Photo by Danny Howard
Some people aren’t satisfied with the seating once they get on the bus…
Photo by @amber_kit
Photo by Tina
Photo by John C
These crafty knitters in Philly took it a step further (via Wooster Collective)
Wow. Well, I guess even though Muni seats are less gross than BART seats, you can never be too careful!
Free drinks with Clipper Card?
Photo by Jamison Wieser
Not quite. But that didn’t stop a gaggle of tweeters yesterday evening from fantasizing.
It started with a casual tweet from @murphstahoe:
Bars should be able to get a Clipper reader, and give $2 off your first drink if you rode Muni in the last 20 minutes.
We spawned a hashtag: #clipperbooze, and from there, imagination ran wild. Here are some of the musings:
and free rides over a certain BAC %! the drivers can get those portable breathalyzers 😀 — @cripsahoy
bars should just take Clipper. Would speed adoption! — @jcsnotes
I think the breathalyzers would be better used on the #muni drivers… — @duggi
They’d have to put a breathalyzer on the clipper card, though. #clipperbooze — @geekpondering
Yes! To alleviate IRS on pretax $$$, bars name drinks after lines “I’ll have a K-Ingleside straight up” #clipperbooze — @jcsnotes
Broken Clipper fare readers in bars = free drink! #clipperbooze — @LSH
Ah, San Francisco. This all reminds us of another creative use for Clipper Cards. If you’ve got other creative, alcohol-infused ideas for Clipper, don’t forget to use “#clipperbooze” on Twitter.