Category: Funny: Muni LOLs

Photo by @rgreenberg: “This cat’s stylin a Stacy Adams suit on #muni 31 balboa”

The @munidiaries Twitter feed is a constant stream of amusing moments on the bus. This week the tweeple of San Francisco saw some wild animals and an accordion man!

Meanwhile, on @munidiaries:

Outbound J: Guy carrying caged wild squirrel that was eating his garden, en route to release it somewhere with lots of trees. (@mrfb)

Dude is playing songs from Amelie in Civic Cntr#Muni station. Thank you #accordian man, you just made my rainy day. (@HereInSanFran)

Overheard on the Muni: “Do you know who Rihanna is?” “Nope.” (@brenden)

I literally screamed “YES!!!!” out loud in the Muni after I saw people selling Girl Scout cookies by 19th and Holloway (@unfastened)

OH on the Muni: an 8 year old girl asking her older sister “what’s Minesweeper?” #wearefossils (@turnerator)

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Photo by Brian_Brooks

Over on the Muni Diaries Facebook page, Tammy left this amusing tale:

Dude boards thru bus back door. Mimes holding a card to the clipper reader and then fakes the payment beep by saying BEEP in a truly lousy falsetto. it worked.

Huh. Your falsetto game doesn’t even have to be on to win Clipper? Who knew?

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Photo by Jamison Wieser

Not quite. But that didn’t stop a gaggle of tweeters yesterday evening from fantasizing.

It started with a casual tweet from @murphstahoe:

Bars should be able to get a Clipper reader, and give $2 off your first drink if you rode Muni in the last 20 minutes.

We spawned a hashtag: #clipperbooze, and from there, imagination ran wild. Here are some of the musings:

and free rides over a certain BAC %! the drivers can get those portable breathalyzers 😀 — @cripsahoy

bars should just take Clipper. Would speed adoption! — @jcsnotes

I think the breathalyzers would be better used on the #muni drivers… — @duggi

They’d have to put a breathalyzer on the clipper card, though. #clipperbooze — @geekpondering

Yes! To alleviate IRS on pretax $$$, bars name drinks after lines “I’ll have a K-Ingleside straight up” #clipperbooze — @jcsnotes

Broken Clipper fare readers in bars = free drink! #clipperbooze — @LSH

Ah, San Francisco. This all reminds us of another creative use for Clipper Cards. If you’ve got other creative, alcohol-infused ideas for Clipper, don’t forget to use “#clipperbooze” on Twitter.

You might think Muni riders reign supreme when it comes to ranting about our public transportation, but rider Andy C sent over a tip: Bostonians put the T in hateraid. According to Andy:

The Metropolitan Massachusetts Boston Transit Authority recently started selling MBTA-themed gear (a way to close a budget gap?). Based on some rider suggestions to the Boston Globe, it would appear that Muni’s problems are unique.

In response to the MBTA’s online store, the Boston Globe challenged their readers to come up with slogans for transit-themed goods. The Boston Globe’s Top 25 Readers’ T Slogans sound a little like how we talk about Muni: “Raising Your Blood Pressure since 1964” and “America’s First Subway and Still Operating Like It.”

Ouch.

Got some merchandise ideas for Muni? Comment away!