Okay, so if you're one of... five people in the world, you may have an idea of why I was riding a MUNI bus this morning.
It's been a while since I've ridden MUNI, but I AM a San Francisco native (third generation, if you must know) and have spent my fair share of time "on the bus."
Anyway. I walk into the Citibank branch on Van Ness at Clay to get change for the bus, and there is this guy turning over a hundred dollar bill for bus change. I mean, I was just there with a twenty, okay?!
So this same guy walks out of the bank a few steps ahead of me, and consequently we wind up on the same eastbound 1 California bus. We both sit down, coincidentally, on opposite sides of the bus in the front-most inward-facing seats -- the ones reserved for elderly and disabled passengers. He, by the way, has been on the phone since leaving the bank. And he's one of those who sits in a sideways seat but tries to face forward, so his elbow is on the seatback beside him and that same hand is holding his cell phone, into which he is speaking rather boisterously. One stop down the road, at Clay and Polk, a bunch more folks get on the bus, one of whom, an unfortunate young Asian woman, makes the unwitting mistake of sitting down next to hundred-dollar-bill-changing-phone-talking guy. Recall now his seating arrangement as I described it above, which is a complete encroachment upon the seat our young heroine has taken. She is now forced to lean forward in order to avoid contact with his elbow on the back of her seat, and furthermore she is subjected to his TALKING INTO HER EAR due to the angle at which he is propped, with his cell phone right behind her head. MISERY!!! The one upshot of this story is that the scowl on this woman's face from Polk Street to Grant Ave., where she disembarked, was PRICELESS.
Next up, on my way back from my outing (again, if you know, you know), I'm sitting again in the same general area when ANOTHER obnoxious white man boards the bus with a Subway soda. As the bus lurches forward - as MUNI buses are wont to do - my boy trips in the aisle and a spurt of soda shoots out from the top of the straw in his cup, landing treacherously close to my kicks. Um... I will refrain from drawing the facile analogy and suffice to say that I'm not sure when MUNI gave you the go-ahead to drink soda on its buses, motherfucker!
All of which is to say, white men, please try to curb your obnoxious behavior in public places.
Oooh... it's good I don't have comments active here!
Peace out.
