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We take these things for granted in San Francisco. But there aren’t too many other places in the world where @trivia_tidbit‘s tweet would make total sense.
"You arouse my curiosity. You are a girl, aren't you?" – quotes from the 71 @munidiaries
— Cassie Becker (@trivia_tidbit) June 22, 2012
And it probably really didn’t even matter. Which it shouldn’t.
Then, last week, @funtobehad told us she heard the singing Muni driver on the 27-Bryant crooning away. She sent the video above. Anyone know the story on this guy? He gets radness points for saying the transfer lines.
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Think you’re being clever with your less-than-high-brow novel? @genaweave is on to you.
Woman on #sfmuni is reading her book upside down. There is a 95% chance that she’s secretly reading#50shadesofgray. – @genaweave
Oh snap.
Side story: When I saw 50 Shades of Grey at Green Apple Books, at first I thought it was a book about being black in America. Another friend thought it was a book about aging gracefully. How wrong we were.
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In a memo to top executives, including the CEO, Muni’s chief information officer detailed the accounting maneuvers, called “quirks,” that were boosting the numbers reported to the public by as much as 18 percent.
Muni has been under pressure to improve timeliness since 1999, when San Francisco residents voted to require the transit agency to be on time at least 85 percent of the time. For years, bonuses for the Muni chief have also been tied to performance measures, including on-time performance.
There you have it. You can read the rest of the report at The Bay Citizen.
Here, the cringe factor has been dialed up to 11. The same awk off-camera eye angles for the professor are accompanied by Judy and Jerry, the model Muni citizen and her polar opposite.
Proceed with caution (apparently, SFMTA disabled video embeds for this one. Good call?) … video is here.