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There are no limits to this woman’s productivity, everybody. Not even a crowded commuter train can hold her back, because this email is getting answered right now.
I guess the train is so packed that even if someone did try to snatch her laptop, the thief would have nowhere to run?
Okay, not really. That’s a misleading headline. On purpose.
But this bit of amazing landed in our submissions box recently, and had me smiling ear-to-ear.
Take it away, Matty:
I had a conversation with a friend not too long ago about the best way I’ve found to make riding Muni tolerable, especially during rush hour when it’s crazy packed with all of God’s forgotten children. Just look around and narrate in your head what’s happening as if it was a Stefon skit from SNL:
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“Get on the train. I don’t care what you smell!”
Leanne spotted this on what she thinks was an L at Powell Street Station:
I think the guy standing next to him is the owner, since he had a camera and might have been taking it on a shoot, but I love that he acted like it wasn’t his. Or maybe the owner was watching from afar. Pretty funny!
See, had it been me, I would’ve demanded everyone know.
We’ve seen this Chewbacca fella at a BART station, as the valiant Wookie with the heart of gold scared people into transit politeness. Just kidding, even Chewy can’t do that.
Photo by davitydave
Oh, men taking up too much space on the train (dot tumblr dot com). Patty sent this to us wondering who’ll create the SF version. It’s been a while, but we have addressed this infuriating, still-relevant phenomenon:
Yes, we should (and we do) say something [after we possibly document it for the Internet]. But, until we do and even if we don’t, please mind your balls and your manners, gentlemen, as this seems largely the domain of male ridership. Seat-taking ladies, though, that goes for you, too.
Oh, a gay friend says he, ever so slightly, will rub up on your macho legs until you clam up (and do you ever), but I think our gay brothers really have more important things to do.
Julian has a rad little illustrated comic for you. We applaud this rather accurate take on what the K-Ingleside as a human would be like. Here’s the caption:
“Let’s see. If I hand my NextBus tracker to that taxi, he can take it to the cable cars, who can put it on the actual cable for awhile before passing it on to a tour bus, which can hopefully meet up with an outbound J, which will be close but not too close … yeah I think they’ll never catch me then!”
You’ve seen Julian’s work on Muni Diaries before: In 2012, he came up with the then 100-year-old Muni system as a person. Nice work.
Via Tumblr.
We’d sure like to see the rest of this ad panel that Mitchell sent our way.
“If ants don’t go away, use crab spiders.”
Salient advice, yo.
Via Twitter.