For those that don't know, the MUNI is the glorious
public transit system of buses and such in
San Francisco.
Service is so shitty that there's a weekly comic to mock it.
Base chance of getting a bus on time: 100%
- If the day is not a sunday: -15%
- If the time is between 7am - 10am or 3pm - 8pm: -35%
- If the bus needs to travel on a major street: -17%
- if the bus is electric: -18%
Odds that:
- You'll actually be able to sit down: 50%
- You will get to hear the tinny leak of noise out of someone's headphones: 85%
- out of more than 3 sets of phones at the same time: 50%
- more than 5 sets, with one of them so loud that you can actually hear the bass, too: 40%
- And this guy is on the other end of the buss: 39%
- One of the people wearing the headphones will be singing along with them: 62%
- This person will be a totally crappy singer: 95%
- this person will know only a third of the lyrics: 74%
- This person will cop attitude when they notice the whole bus is staring at them: 80%
- This person will stop singing: 0%
- There will be High School kids on the bus: 60%
- They will be loud and obnoxious: 87%
- There will be a person whose height in inches is less than or equal to their circumference sitting in thevery last row: 18%
- Said "Large Person" will not need to get off the bus until the thing is full of people standing in the aisle: 100%
- Said "Large Person" will act loudly indignant that they cant get off the bus in a timely manner because there isn't room to get by: 80%
- Said "Large Person" will cough or rub their greasy skin on you as they try to "slide by": 95%
- Number of seats by the door that were available when said "Large Person" got on the bus: MANY
...ok, so I was a little
traumatized by this whole event...
The bus stop I go to to catch the bus home from work is in the middle of downtown (4th and Market for locals). It is served by 3 bus lines, the 5, the 21, and the 31. These all stop within 3 blocks of my place, so I can take any of them.
These buses run every 7, 9, and 11 minutes during peak hours. Logic would dictate that these buses would be spaced a little, correct?
no.
- Average time I wait for a bus at said stop: 17 minutes.
- Chance that I will not get on the bus because in that 17 minutes a small army has gathered at the bus stop: 25%
- Chance that NOONE will get on the bus because the goddamn thing is chok full o nutz: 20%
- Chance that the next bus behind it will be completely devoid of human life sans the driver: 38%
Attitude towards doing anything when I get home from work: Piss-Poor.
so there's some bitching about MUNI for you. In perfect world, Willie Brown would read it and do something beyond trying to get elected to something else after his stint as Da Mayor.
No, really. The most Gentrified black guy onthehpeninsulaa was wearing a baseball cap saying "Still Da Mayor" when he got re-elected. Hell, I think My white ass may be blacker than him.