Category: Funny: Muni LOLs

I hate to be the one to say this isn’t a real transit ad, but this isn’t a real transit ad. It should be, yes, but it’s not.

Patricia called our attention to these brutally honest parody ads via Happy Place. The ads explain how you can easily not be an asshole on Down Undah’s Queensland Rail. They’re meant to mock the exceedingly polite — and accidentally passive-aggressive, right? — Queensland Rail etiquette tips. Have a look at what Happy Place describes as, “…five examples that much more closely resemble our subway experiences, plus or minus a few breast-gropers and/or gibberish-spouting homeless women.”

My favorite Bay Area transit etiquette rules: “Don’t give your giant Styrofoam its own seat on crowded trains,” “BART isn’t your living room, mister,” and “It’s impolite to take up extra bus seats and flip people off.”

What are yours?

Photo by David Lytle

Someone decided to add a pair of eyes to the Muni emergency button. From photographer David Lytle:

Someone put googly eyes on emergency car stop button casing turning the forbidden red button into something much more hilarious. They also transformed the usual monotonous morning commute into a carload of passengers who briefly broke their silence and laughed together. Well played, witty vandal!

Well played indeed! Thanks, David!

Photo by sarahdopp

Sometimes you get what you asked for. We found this real conversation via ang in SF.

Muni Bus Driver: (After 10 minutes of yelling at passengers on her overcrowded bus, and becoming visibly irate) Wanna trade jobs?
Muni Passenger: Yes! In a heartbeat! I’ve been on unemployment for months.

Well, there ya go!