Muni Gear: ‘Fe-MUNI-st’
Rider Jon sent us this baseball cap: “FeMUNIst — Information gladly given, but safety requires avoiding unnecessary conversation.”
This message is also available in the form of a tank top or maternity shirt (?!)
Category: Funny: Muni LOLs
LATFH+Muni=Hilarity close to home
Daily source of hilariousness Look at This Fucking Hipster posted this photo today, along with the caption:
Look at this fucking headphones connection.
Like we said, hilarity.
Tutorial: How to speed up boarding on Muni
Photo by Flickr user Nick.Fisher
Doug over at Ice Tubes blog got tired of trying to stuff crumpled dollar bills into Muni boxes and posted some tips for the days when you don’t have your Fast Pass/Translink/dollar coins/pocket full of change. Now you have something to do while you wait for the bus. — Eugenia
With the recent fare hike back in July, the cost of riding a bus/light rail in San Francisco has gone up to $2. Now you either a) use a pre-paid bus pass, b) have eight quarters ready, c) contain a fist full of dimes, nickels and quarters adding up to $2, or d) have two $1 bills.
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Photo diary: A virtual world aboard Muni?
From Muni rider Anthony:
If Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 was a kid, this kid would be him.
*Scratches head*
Who?
A little internet search showed that Cloud is a young man with what I previously thought was an impossible-in-real-life hairdo, which this cool young man has replicated to perfection.
Thanks, Anthony!
No Green Buses Today
Photo by Telstar Logistics
But we’ve seen a few noteworthy St. Paddy’s Day-related tweets cross the wires, including:
I’ve already been pinched twice by total strangers. Is everyone on my commute Irish or just jerks?! by @Hilary_Laurie
priest on the muni isn’t wearing green. hmm. by @rachelpartdeux
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, folks. Party people, do me a favor, do not get on a muni metro between 11pm and 12am please. Just let me get home. by @rnaglejr
I’m guessing the drunken, stumbly man in a green t-shirt on Muni at 4:30 pm is related to St. Patrick’s day festivities. by @pui_ling
What about you? What did you see/who did you pinch today on Muni?
Muni Metaphors
Photo by Flickr user anitakhart
Within a span of 12 hours, I’ve seen two people on Twitter compare shittiness in some other system to Muni.
(via @troy) i think AT&T & Muni have the same biz model: over promise and under deliver. raise prices, lower SLAs. i hate them both equally.
(via @whole_tost) Damn you firefox, you used to take five minutes to load, now it takes 20! Starting to become the next Muni…
I’m not going to pretend to scratch my head over this phenomenon. Instead, I’m wondering how many other metaphors we can come up with. I’m thinking:
Dude, this elevator is taking as long per storey as Muni does per mile. Ouch.
Or:
The sidewalks on Valencia are all Muni’d these days.
Or something. Got any other Muni metaphors? Let us know in comments please.