Mannerly must-have for Muni riders: letterpress etiquette cards

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letterpress bus etiquette muni diaries by huneymungerdontcare

Someone found a classy way to complain about a very annoying habit on Muni — those damn backpacks! Direct from the Muni Diaries Instagram inbox, artist Emma Munger sends us her very first letter press project:bus etiquette cards. Emma says:

My first letterpress project is something I can hand out to the dickheads of public transportation #takemycard

No, please, for the love of god, take her card.

Inconsiderate backpack carriers on Muni have been called a lot of names — turtles, for example — in our transit-riding community. You hate having backpacks bumping into you so much that our very first Spanish submission was about this universal pet peeve.

The powers that be assure us that they’re aware. A lot of ink has been spilled about how you should just take the damn thing off on a crowded bus. BART made a PSA about it. It’s the number two complaint from Muni riders (can you guess what numero uno is?). But that has yet to translate into common commute courtesy.

Check out Emma’s online store of her other very cool work.

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Photo Diary: Muni dystopia

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broken muni shelter by jwz

In the post-apocalyptic future, no Muni shelter is safe. This photo came from the blog run by Jamie Zawinski, proprietor of DNA Lounge, who says: “Every quality dystopia has a touch of neon.”

You might know the DNA Lounge as the all ages dance club (home of classic club nights like Bootie, Hubba Hubba Revue, and Deathguild), or hilarious quirky events like Mortified and Hoodslam. The word on the street is that this San Francisco institution is looking for funding support to keep it independent.

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Post-It artist brilliantly illustrates Hamilton on BART

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hamilton post it artist by andy lie

Bay Area creativity and our collective Hamilton craze were fiercely represented in a Post-It note artist’s work on BART.

As seen by @andylie1 on Twitter, someone brought brilliant cultural cachet to the fine station and city of Lafayette with some well-placed Post-It notes on this BART map. For those of you not (yet) in the Hamilton crew, Marquis de Lafayette is a character in the musical portrayed by Daveed Diggs. Here’s the video to said lyrics, and consider this your Broadway earworm of the day.

As if this is not cool enough: Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda full-on quoted the tweet for his million-plus following and gave it a big ole double tap regram on Insta. Dear Post-It artist, I think your whole life has been made.

lin manuel miranda regram

Thank you to Muni Diaries reader Deirdre O. for spotting this gem!

Other inspired uses of Post-Its on transit:
– “Don’t sit there”: Five things to be thankful for on Muni
– Mystery rider’s sweet Post-It reminder for all
– Using Post-Its to make the commute more entertaining

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Crack in the space-time continuum on BART

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past and future me by ronn vigh

Commuting on BART or Muni, as quotidian as it can be, can also be a trippy, deja-vu experience. Case in point — comedian (and former Muni Haiku champion) Ronn Vigh sends in this four-dimensional anomaly:

Wow, it’s like “future him” is standing just on the other side of the doors.

It’s an scene from Primer right in front of our eyes!

Got other important observations (in this spacetime interval or any other) for your fellow riders? Tag us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Our email inbox muni.diaries.sf@gmail.com is always open!

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Muni driver plays Jedi mind tricks on ‘14-Mission’

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When the sign on the 5-Fulton displayed the wrong line, the driver of said Muni bus opted to lightheartedly punk his passengers. Watch (read) the story unfold via @Bobakkabob37 on Twitter:

5 fulton driver by bobak

But first, he tries to convince riders that they are actually on Mission Street, but the locals aren’t buying it. Then…

5 fulton driver 2 by bobak

This is not the 5R they were looking for, nor was it the Muni ride these passengers expected.

Creative Muni signage is one of our favorite memes — who could forget the storied 3-Jacassus route? But this might be our first instance of a driver doubling down with an Obi-Wan Kenobi on his passengers.

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Minge inspector maintains on Muni

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muni wires from tara

At Muni Diaries HQ, we like to say that Muni is our collective living room because it is such a constant part of our every day. Though some things are better done in your actual living room, not everyone got the memo. Rider Dave sent us a story of one such example involving a useful hand mirror.

From Dave:

The Scene: the 14 just past 16th/Mission headed downtown.

A little old lady gets on the bus and sits down next to me. I am minding my own business reading a book on my phone. Every now and then I notice a slight flash to my left. I glance over and see she’s holding a small hand-mirror. I figure she’s putting on her make-up or something,… whatever.

The flashing keeps happing and I look over again and saw that she’d hiked up her dress, wasn’t wearing any underwear and the flashing (so to speak) was her periodically using the mirror to examine her private bits. I felt simultaneously like my breakfast was going to come up, and so relieved that my life is not nearly as messed up as what I was witnessing.

I figure the rest of my day will probably pretty tame, no matter what.

In her defense, haven’t you sometimes really needed to know if you have spinach stuck between your teeth, whether that awful zip popped, or whatever? Resist the urge, everyone. It can most likely wait!

Photo by our own Tara Ramroop.

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