Your place to share stories on and off the bus.
Every day on Muni is a WTF moment, so you know these 10 WTF moments that we’ve picked out from 2013 are the cream of the crop. If the photo above is any indication, our standards for WTF are pretty damn high!
10. “Moon over my shoulder” on Muni. Via Gary Whitta, who says, “I often see people on my Twitter feed complaining about their fellow bus patrons. It is to them that I present this.” Um…thank you, I think?
It’s Monday. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I think we can all agree that more sleep is a good thing. And when sleeping on the floor of a bus perfectly framed by Crate and Barrel and J. Crew bags, well, even better.
Via @gpmacklin
Photo by frankfarm
We threw this in the WTF: Weirdness on Muni category, but it’s not so much weirdness as what theeeee fuck. Via submitter “Ms. Over It,” we remember and wish everyone taught their kids to be good people, even when said kids get chest-puffy with their friends.
This story, unfortunately has it all: the worst of teen-on-woman harassment, theft, and what sounds like a lot of other scared passengers who sat on their hands.
I boarded the L train inbound at Taraval and 25th ave. yesterday evening after work. At the next stop a group of 6 or 7 teen boys boarded bringing foul language and disregard with them. They fought among each other, hogged multiple seats relaying emasculating phrases and homophobic accusations in the highest sound volume…this continued all the way to Forest Hill Station. When I departed the train I thought I was done with that ruckus but to my dismay the boys departed the train as well. We all boarded the elevator with a couple of other random people and half way up they hit the emergency stop button causing the elevator to jolt to a stop. They laughed and pushed each other around then hit the up button and the elevator began moving again, we were almost to the top when they did it again! I let out a frustrated sigh as I have a fear of falling and glanced at the other 2 adults on the elevator whom were also showing annoyance which I think the boys picked up on.
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“Muni rider Rebekka was minding her own on the 43 heading toward the Marina, lost in her book, when …
The weirdest noise interrupted my immersed state. I turned around and saw a man and two women running downright towards the front part of the bus. And what I saw then was embarrassing for basically every commuter in this bus: In the last row a guy just emptied his entire stomach. And obviously he hit a huge area of the windows, the seats and the floor. But worst of all, he hit those three people who just escaped.
“In that moment I was trying to figure out whom I should feel more sorry for: The girl who looked like as if she just freshly showered under partly digested food and drinks or the poor man who obviously must have felt incredibly sick. We all stared shocked at each other and nobody was able to talk for the rest of the ride, hoping for the next bus stop. After the first stop, the poor man was gone and stop by stop the bus got emptier. I was the last guest at the last stop and told the bus driver the whole story. She had to stop her bus ride.”
Time of day matters, here, but. Too many appletinis?
Here we go again, folks. Maybe we should all start wearing our work gloves when we ride Muni.
Seriously, though. Why are so many Muni doors not closing? Some kind of metaphor or something?
Via @carguybikeguy
Basically, DIY terrariums are so last week.
“Botanical boots…upcoming trend?” asks submitter @boZannical—interestingly, a self-described gardener and urban ecologist.
You heard it here first, via this photo from the 43-Masonic.
Don’t be so quick to dismiss trends on city transit. Thanks to you guys, we discovered the bold new way to handle male-pattern baldness, and cat on a backpack, which never goes out of style.