Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Muni muses are kind of the best. Especially those prompting us to do more than wish we were in a car. Like, perhaps, to be a superhero in our own way.
Sez Muni sketcher @katyatch:
today’s bus sketch inspired by a girl on the 38L wearing a super hero backpack. POW!
We know it’s now Thursday, but go get ’em today, too.
What inspired you on Muni today? Be cool like Katy and send them to us on Twitter @munidiaries.
Photo: Silver Tusk
@tomcarmony found some next-level sleeping on Muni Metro, and we wish there was a photo to go with his evocative description and, um, how-to:
I never realized you could just lay down on the floor of a Muni train, across the full width of the car, and just go to sleep. Good to know!
Aisle-horizontal is brave, though arguably more polite than, oh, taking up seats. Where do they think they are, Japanese transit?
Per Adam, who snapped this around Kearny and Sutter:
Rotten day to have to hook a bus up to a tow truck; I tip my hat to the tow-truck driver.
Thanks, Adam. We do, too.
So, for whom does this suck most?
Mull that over while wishing for a drier commute home. I’m personally crossing all fingers and still-damp toes.
Ed note: I know, it’s not exactly weirdness on Muni, especially on a 49-Van Ness/Mission. But it’s pretty squarely WTF with a side of, “Really? Really.” Muni rider Chaz draws a distinction between beloved street art and your everyday tagger drawing on the bus:
I watched this shitstain and his crew get on the 49 northbound at Turk or so and proceed to very obviously and obnoxiously scrawl his handle on the ceiling of the bus. I was a few seconds too late to capture him in the act, but you can see the purple marker in his hand and the matching color of illegible text above his head. If the bus had played the “if you see graffiti in progress…” announcement or I just remembered the number I would have notified the authorities; instead in my powerlessness I turn to the internet hive.
You laugh, but something tells me this works sometimes. Picture it: a crowded commute-hour Metro train, and not one person sits here because of the message.
Instagram photographer @dusteallen asks, “A fair Muni warning?”
Well, is it?
First, there was Asylum, then there was Poltergeist, then there were probably some other movies with creepy dolls, and then there was this.
Jesse says: “There were a TON of people at the stop (Divis and Geary) AND it was raining, but no one was sitting down…everyone was keeping a healthy distance from that little monster.”
Jesse always makes us laugh—especially when he’s performing at Muni Diaries Live—but this is the first time he has for real creeped us the eff out.