"Above and beyond - this is theoretical transportation! Don't try to use it if you're actually trying to get anywhere on time (under two hours).
"Interestingly enough, people actually seem to ACCEPT this state." - Anonymous - SF, CA.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Another Elderly Mishap
This is a conversation with a young woman who asked for some 'Bus Wisdom' advice from a bus support group. It went like this:
(W= Woman, G = Group)
W - "I need advice"
G - “you need advice”
W - "I need help"
G - “Okay, we’re all here”
W - "I don’t know if anyone here rides the L sometimes. 'the L train' Well for some yanno I think there’s some ethnic tensions yanno and that’s a very serious situation but for some reason, not once, not twice but THREE times I’ve had to break up senior citizens getting into it on the bus and I just don’t know what to do with them. I’m sorry but I’m not the kind of person who can stand by and watch a 70 year old woman try an clock a like a 60 year old guy. I find it upsetting. So if anyone has some inside words of wisdom – I know I should step back and just let them duke it out on the L and --- - it happens a lot on Saturdays. …"
G - “Are they fighting over seats? what are they fighting over?”
W - “They’re fighting over, ‘you didn’t move over an inch for that woman to get off. You’re horrible you’re innately evil’ and yelling at them. It gets a little ugly”
G - “And do you just break it up or do you swoop in with some words of wisdom?”
W - “I say you’re too old to be doing this”
G - “And does this stress you, out? Or do you enjoy it a little bit?”
W - “I enjoy it.. I, I”
G - “Okay then, I think… you know what I think? I think you’re doing a damn good job.”
- Anonymous - SF, CA.
(W= Woman, G = Group)
W - "I need advice"
G - “you need advice”
W - "I need help"
G - “Okay, we’re all here”
W - "I don’t know if anyone here rides the L sometimes. 'the L train' Well for some yanno I think there’s some ethnic tensions yanno and that’s a very serious situation but for some reason, not once, not twice but THREE times I’ve had to break up senior citizens getting into it on the bus and I just don’t know what to do with them. I’m sorry but I’m not the kind of person who can stand by and watch a 70 year old woman try an clock a like a 60 year old guy. I find it upsetting. So if anyone has some inside words of wisdom – I know I should step back and just let them duke it out on the L and --- - it happens a lot on Saturdays. …"
G - “Are they fighting over seats? what are they fighting over?”
W - “They’re fighting over, ‘you didn’t move over an inch for that woman to get off. You’re horrible you’re innately evil’ and yelling at them. It gets a little ugly”
G - “And do you just break it up or do you swoop in with some words of wisdom?”
W - “I say you’re too old to be doing this”
G - “And does this stress you, out? Or do you enjoy it a little bit?”
W - “I enjoy it.. I, I”
G - “Okay then, I think… you know what I think? I think you’re doing a damn good job.”
- Anonymous - SF, CA.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
LOL (little old ladies)
"A little old lady rang the bell to get off at the next stop. She was tiny and looked as if she wouldn't harm a fly. We were on the #5. She got up and said in a very loud, stern voice, 'gettin' off, gettin' off, gettin' off - ' A very tall man was getting on at the same time. Towering over her, he thought he was in her way so he started apologizing profusely. She turned sharply to the man and said, 'I wasn't talkin' to YOU - get outta MY WAY! Gettin' off!' She practically pushed the man over and she exited the bus." - L.Kohne - SF, CA.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
COMIC: Banana Manifesto
Comic, by Lauren Kohne, based on a true story told by -Emma and Vince Kingston - SF, CA.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Smells
"If I get this job, I will dred taking the #27 Bus to "Cro-Magnon" and Market...it's really Cyril Magnin, but Cro Magnon is pretty descriptive.
People on this bus stink. It smells "homeless" (you know, that homeless smell). This morning smelled like dirty rag and ketchup.
Other smells reminded me of the RTD days in LA, like: eau-de-urine-bus smell and gin-on-the-breath bus smell.
If people have high sensitivities to taste (like those with Geographic Tongue) then I must have a sensitivity to smell. For example, my body acted pretty adversely to the smell of vomit on the street so much so that I almost felt like vomiting.
And god knows, I surely wouldn't want to vomit on the #27.
(But it might add to the wonderful smells nevertheless)!" - Anonymous - SF, CA.
"I got on the bus I was sitting in the back and it smells terrible and it was not just like someone farted – it smelled like someone took a shit on the bus it was that rank. And everyone was looking around thinking and saying 'what the hell is that??' No one could figure it out – and there was this guy you might have seen him around he hangs out in the lower Haight, some homeless skinny Hispanic guy and he’s really animated. He’s really funny, nice – he’s been around for years always dancing and silly. So he gets up to get off the bus and he’s carrying this plastic bag and all of a sudden I notice this bag was dripping with shit! Wet disgusting, covered wet… and everyone sees it’s him and they say 'oh it’s you! it’s disgusting! Get off the bus!' and he goes “who? What? Me?” and starts doing this pantomime gesturing all over the place – I don’t know if he was drunk or what but he was going to get off the bus but now that he had all this attention he stayed on the bus. And everyone is saying 'NO YOU GET OFF THE BUS!' he has no idea that his bag is full of shit and everyone on the bus is hysterical and he is eating it up!" - Aaron Novik - SF, CA.
People on this bus stink. It smells "homeless" (you know, that homeless smell). This morning smelled like dirty rag and ketchup.
Other smells reminded me of the RTD days in LA, like: eau-de-urine-bus smell and gin-on-the-breath bus smell.
If people have high sensitivities to taste (like those with Geographic Tongue) then I must have a sensitivity to smell. For example, my body acted pretty adversely to the smell of vomit on the street so much so that I almost felt like vomiting.
And god knows, I surely wouldn't want to vomit on the #27.
(But it might add to the wonderful smells nevertheless)!" - Anonymous - SF, CA.
"I got on the bus I was sitting in the back and it smells terrible and it was not just like someone farted – it smelled like someone took a shit on the bus it was that rank. And everyone was looking around thinking and saying 'what the hell is that??' No one could figure it out – and there was this guy you might have seen him around he hangs out in the lower Haight, some homeless skinny Hispanic guy and he’s really animated. He’s really funny, nice – he’s been around for years always dancing and silly. So he gets up to get off the bus and he’s carrying this plastic bag and all of a sudden I notice this bag was dripping with shit! Wet disgusting, covered wet… and everyone sees it’s him and they say 'oh it’s you! it’s disgusting! Get off the bus!' and he goes “who? What? Me?” and starts doing this pantomime gesturing all over the place – I don’t know if he was drunk or what but he was going to get off the bus but now that he had all this attention he stayed on the bus. And everyone is saying 'NO YOU GET OFF THE BUS!' he has no idea that his bag is full of shit and everyone on the bus is hysterical and he is eating it up!" - Aaron Novik - SF, CA.
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