Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Muni rider Jason sends the photo above, and says:
ok maybe they couldn’t afford a real shelter, but at least now we can sit down in the rain waiting for a southbound 22
How are you coping with all the waterwater and ice falling from the sky?
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I love this photo by davitydave. And the wet weather continues …
Photo by Jennifer 8. Lee
Oh no you din’t, Ms. 8. Lee.
Also, I’m glad The New York Times has copy editors. (“Whats with all the brown?” What’s with no apostrophe, more like.)
Okay, you’re right about the brown. Most of us would prefer an orange something along the lines of 2010 World Champion San Francisco Giants or something. We’ll see what we can do.
Photo by @smiffleblurf
If you left your Valentine on Muni, @smiffleblurf found it:
Someone left a valentine on the floor of #Muni which read, “Jesus crazy for Renee”. Poor, Renee.
Photo by Mike Koozmin/Examiner
Who can walk faster than Muni? Intrepid SF Examiner reporter or Da Mayor?
You might remember another man attempting a similar challenge to best the bus. In September 1998, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Mayor Walks, Muni Runs“:
The race began at the Civic Center station at 7:40 a.m. Brown, stung by a Chronicle story on Tuesday that said walking down Market Street was as fast as riding beneath it, said he wanted to give the Municipal Railway another chance. He donned his sharpest Panama hat, Rockport wingtips and orange polka-dot hankie for the jaunt.
Looking at young Mr. Reisman, I can only surmise that his gait may be faster than the mayor and that he may be wearing footwear more appropriate for power-walking than Willie’s wingtip shoes. You can read more about Reisman’s trip at SFExaminer.com.
Photo by Tian Jiang
Eric forms a quick plan on the bus so he can meet his future wife:
I see the most amazingly beautiful woman ever in my life…Holy shit! What to do?! “Sit next to her, idiot!” I tell myself. Well, I don’t want to seem like a fool so I hold my paper out in front of me (turns out that it was upside down). I can’t stop staring at her hands.. they are long and sleek, so beautiful.. plus I can’t just stare directly at her, that would be rude.
Wil proves that he’s not just random guy on the bus:
It started, like most of my days end, waiting for the N-Judah outside the CalTrain station, reading, listening to my headphones. The train ambled up a couple minutes earlier than NextBus predicted (for perhaps the first time in history.) So, I scrambled to get my bag together and slipped onto the second car as the “door closing” warning chimed out. I looked up at the almost empty car as I pressed the back of my wallet against the Clipper terminal and saw a girl that made my heart immediately break into a hundred pieces.
Steven and Vickie met one day while riding the 22-Fillmore en route to the outer Richmond. Their initial attraction to each other survived a transfer to the 38-Geary:
People are finding Muni a perfectly romantic San Francisco place. We’ve even received wedding photos taken on the bus:
Heather and Ed had their wedding photo shoot at the Muni yard.
Photo by Jessica Palopoli, Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved.
Muni was Chantilly and Domonique’s wedding shuttle…
Photo by Lawrence Pan
…as well as for this happy couple in the back of the bus.
Photo by jennifer7people
If this post made you gag, my sincere apologies. Worry not: we’re only a few hours away from our regular programming of food fights, suspicious liquids, celebrity sightings, and cameos in adult films! In the mean time, if you have a Muni love story to share, today would be the day.