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Category: Story Archive
Got Gold Spray Paint, Will Ride Muni
Photo by @TheJoWo
This is our second reported sighting of the metallic guys on Muni Diaries, if you recall.
Here’s Silver Man getting off of a long day of work, spotted by @genejo.
Muni Art Diary: Mural at 21st and Mission
Here’s a wider view for some context.
Funny, because it kinda looks like the LRV is emerging from West Portal, though that’s nowhere nearby. And correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve never seen people playing music on streets out there.
Also, it is still strange not hearing and seeing buses on Mission Street.
Other murals with Muni appearances: the dearly departed 15 bus; 52-Excelsior; a Muni bus in Clarion Alley; and a Sirron Norris gray Muni bus
Clipper (Clipper) Trip (Trip)
For context, Matt doesn’t ride Muni that often. It’s like going to Disneyland for the first time!
Anyway, he enters the Embarcadero station and sees signs for Clipper. “Hmm,” he thinks. Clipper. New ticketing service, perhaps? No matter. He gets on an outbound train and sits across from this woman on the left. After a bit of chatter with her riding partner, she produces fingernail clippers from her backpack and (you guessed it) starts clipping her nails — shrapnel flying every which way — while continuing to chat. Making little effort to control his facial expressions, Matt silently scans for brothers and sisters in arms. He sees one other noticer looking back at him, shaking her head and smiling that, “Yep, I see what you see and it ain’t pretty,” smile.
Since Matt just saw signs for “Clipper” and is now seeing a woman clipping her nails, this is starting to feel like the strangest trip. Not literally, but, yeah, also literally.
He takes this single frame seconds before she leaves the bus, leaving behind her fingernail detritus and Matt’s indignant disgust. I personally wouldn’t groom in front of the guy holding full camera gear, but I also wouldn’t clip my nails on Muni. (Can you imagine if I did and got shamed on my own website?)
Welcome, Matt. We’ve been waiting for you among the clippings.
Itching (scratching, even) for more? Nail clipping on another Muni Metro. Nail clipping on the bus. Muni driver nail clipping on break, what?!
Don’t Be an Effin’ A-hole on Muni!
Yes, yes, yes, 100 times yes.
Humorist Streeter Seidell posted this on his website yesterday, and I think Muni should hire him to make similar ones in San Francisco. He describes his project simply:
I’d like to launch an awareness campaign aimed at rude New Yorkers, written in a style they’ll understand, so that one day, maybe, they won’t be quite so shitty.
Among the offenders called out:
- Skateboarders on the platform.
- People who lean on the poles so others can’t hold on.
- The very-special bag that gets its own seat.
I’d say we need something about step down/back door, but if the LARGE RED LETTERS already on the doors don’t work, well…
What are your suggestions for not being a fucking asshole on San Francisco public transit?
Urban Camo Man Takes Muni
On the other hand, there was this guy and his four-leggers. As @girlinchucks says, “So, um, there is a man on the F Market dressed up like his dogs. What an eff’d up day for Muni. Just sayin’.”