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Sometimes avoiding eye contact and plugging your headphones into your ears just isn’t enough to stop people from talking to you on Muni. This rider has solved the problem with an oversize hoodie made just for Muni. I respect the sentiment.
If you really don’t want anyone to talk to you on Muni, I guess you can always go the bed sheet route. But that’s a little much, don’t you think?
Photo via Telegraph UK
A London tube passenger nearly suffered the most painful commute of his life last week when he discovered a scorpion hitchhiking a ride on his bag. According to the Evening Telegraph, the man was in the Victoria Station and began screaming when he spotted the arachnid, alerting London Underground staff. The creature was captured in a plastic box and has since been identified as a Centruroides, a particularly venomous species that may have come from the Carribean. The article quotes a London Zoo expert who said the discovery was bizarre and lamented the fact the scorpion “has been exposed to such a stressful situation.”
Stressful for the scorpion? I would have probably lost my lunch. Thank god we only have bedbugs on BART to deal with.
h/t Telegraph UK
Remember the Muni toilet seat cover we saw on eBay? Well, lookee there. It turns out a Muni Diaries favorite, Josh Ellingson, ended up with the thing.
We talked to Josh about his recent acquisition. Here’s what he had to say:
Muni Diaries: How did you find out about the toilet seat cover?
Josh Ellingson: A friend of mine saw a post about it and passed it along via email. She knew I’d want it and she was right.MD: What prompted you to buy it?
JE: I’ve lived in San Francisco for fifteen years but only recently have been getting into the history of the place, particularly the SF Railway. Last year I started riding the F Line a lot and became interested in all the different historic streetcars. I collect odd things too, so when this came along, I couldn’t pass it up.
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This is my little friend, Pedro, perhaps the most inspiring reason yet to take Muni. You know how everyone says, “Fuck Muni forever, I’m driving?” He says the opposite. Though no fan of a moving car (even when it’s headed to the dog park), he loves him some Metro.
I, for one, am motivated to put car keys away for a while. If he can do it, we can do it.
The tiniest Spider-Man is scaling the impossible climb that is every Muni ride. Photo via @andrio9000 on Instagram.
This isn’t the first time we’ve found little friends alongside us in transit. In January, someone spotted this pipe-cleaning stowaway on Muni. We named him Stromboli.
Are balloon animals on Muni so two years ago? I think there’s room for everyone, personally.