Photo Diary: 9-San Bruno/Garbage Truck
@Smiffleblurf says, “Help! I’m on the 9 San Bruno and this lady blocked my seat with her 5ft tall wall of smelly trash. Phew!”
There really is no getting used to the smells aboard a Muni vehicle, is there?
Category: Funny: Muni LOLs
‘Take One,’ Muni Insists
Molly sent us this one from the 47-Van Ness, clearly keeping it classy as always.
No, really, take one.
Sal Castaneda’s ‘Bad-Ass’ Muni Moment
Safe work with headphones.
Thanks, Sal!
Who you callin’ ‘dummy,’ dummy?
Photog David L. describes the following scene:
The woman behind me was talking on a cellphone the entire trip (Yapper alert!) with a creepy ventriloquist’s dummy on her lap. Not only was she talking on the phone, but she occasionally was talking in what I assumed was the dummy’s voice as well.
Quelle horreur!
We’d have that look on our face, too, if confronted by such a tragedy. Thanks, David!
Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You(r Muni neighbor)
Jesse was recently, well, bemused on Muni. Here’s why.
Crazy guy and I both went to sit in the sideways seats at the front of the bus. I noticed there were two quarters on his seat just as he sat down on them.
I said to him, “Hey man, you just made 50 cents,” as I pointed to the quarters. Without looking at them, he reached back and grabbed them from practically under his ass and held them in his tightly closed fist. He said “Here, I can tell you the dates on them.” Then he seemed to concentrate for a second, and said “1977…1995.” He opened his hand and we looked. He was right on both accounts. “I can always predict dates on coins,” he explained. That was just the beginning.
Other topics of conversation covered:
- His Superior Court murder case was dismissed.
- He is turning 41 next week.
- Everyone has transistor radios.
- Fuck his dad.
- His family is trying to kill him.
- He can predict the date on coins. (see above)
- His mom died at 57.
- This is his first day without heroin or methadone.
- He only wears Element shoes but doesn’t skate anymore.
- Fuck his dad for ducking him for his whole life.
- This city is pissing him off.
- His last name rhymes with Bolinas.
- The guy sitting across from us might be his dad.
- He’s got to leave this city before he kills someone again.
- His family is everywhere, even in City Hall.
- Theres photography studios everywhere, and that’s how he knows how to find his dad.
- He can tell that he and I are on the same wavelength.
- Oh, and fuck his dad.
There’s a little something for everyone in that story, we think. What’s your Muni story?
How familiar is this Muni scene?
Even when your Muni driver isn’t MIA, as they apparently were in @xt1an‘s photo above, it sure does feel that way sometimes, dunnit?
Says he: “hello? does someone want to come move this train? the driver is nowhere to be found”
We hope it got better.