Poll: Do you run for Muni?


Photo by thecourtyard

I was leaving SF State to head home. I saw the train at 19th and Holloway picking up passengers. My light to cross 19th was about to change, so I decided to run for the train.

You know that really lame thing that happens, where sometimes when you’re walking and your ankle randomly buckles under the weight of your body? Yeah, that happened to me. While I was running as fast as I could. Across 19th Avenue.

I bit it hard. Bit it for all the students and people in cars to see. And the Muni operator had the best view.

I got up and hobbled my way up the platform, jeans torn, one ankle out of commission. And, big shock, the Muni operator took off without me.

It was that day that I decided never to run for another bus, streetcar, or LRV ever again. Under no circumstances. No way. I don’t even run for BART.

But what about the rest of you: is it worth it to run to catch your bus? Tell me I’m not the only one.

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Another Take on Muni’s 100th Birthday

If Muni were a person, this is what he would look like.

At least according to Seismogenic, who has drawn Car 1 into an earnest-looking fellow.

The original official centennial logo by SFMTA:

Seismogenic draws “strange comics of personified inanimated things” (or in the case of Muni, is it “personified comic of strange inanimated things”?). Check out his take on Coit Tower and the Filbert steps. And don’t forget: Muni’s centennial celebration gets under way on April 5 (next Thursday!).

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