Category: Photos

Local-ish author. Nice touch

Some people like to read books while riding Muni. Muni rider Kristin is one of them.

Sometimes I ride the bus just to read. Set up camp on the back right window seat with apples and peppermint tea. ride a line all the way down and back again… There is comfort in being alone in a crowd; wearing strangers loose around my shoulders like a handmade shawl in winter. Tuning in and out to the steady hum of engine grumbles, passenger mumbles. Looking up between pages to notice secret street art alleyways and quirky cafés. Feeling my seat mate’s arm absently meet mine as he checks the time, and I just leave it there. Enjoying this straddling two worlds, in motion, heel to toe with no place to.

Besides this website, the Muni Diaries Facebook page, and our Twitter feed, what do you like to read while riding Muni?

Sure, Muni shows up in weddings, giving several big days that extra-special San Francisco touch.

But we had little in the genre of bachelorettes on Muni until rider Lynae stepped up to the plate with this. Wishing the bride-to-be cherished photos on that camera, the finest blurry memories, and a most delicious hangover breakfast.

Muni rider Susan noticed these bunches of bright-green celery on the floor of the Muni Metro she was on. She then posted it to Twitter, concerned for their well-being: “Why was there celery on the Muni floor and why didn’t anyone else notice?” Good question!

I can only hope that this celery met their fated jar of peanut butter somewhere, after a good scrubbing-down, of course.