Ok - I've noticed somethings on the Muni over the last few days and its time to call people out for the inconsiderate jerks that they are:

1) Give up your seat to the PREGNANT WOMEN.
2) Why do you insist on sharing the music you listen to with everyone else on the bus/train?
3) Deodorant would be nice, A FUCKING BATH would be better.
4) Hey ASSHOLE, even on an escalator, same rules apply - left side for people who would like to walk, right side for lazy asses. And that goes for going up and down.
5) When its crowded and obvious you can't get in unless you shove people, wait for the next bus/train.

Dennis, please amend 1) to include the elderly and disabled, as the goddamned signs all over the windows indicate.

And if a lot of people are trying to jam in - move your fat ass down the train.  I've had to just yell, please move down, and maybe one or two people will move, but most people just stand there obstinantly. So I barge right past them and make sure my bag hits their ass on the way.

BART is the same way too.

Especially people going to the airport. They hog up the platform and train aisle, like they think they have priority over everybody else. That is the actual story and everyday life of public transportaions, plus you get a bonus on BART.

also, people with huge roll-away luggage try to get through the narrow ticket gate with those huge baggage. C'mon use your damn brain and ask the ticket-agent for help or other arrangement to get the big luggage through the gates.

6) Don't sit and fart on a passenger's lap.

Some high school girl on the M Ocean View did that to me once as the train was snaking on Orizaba on the way to Balboa Park Station.

7.  Take off your huge stuffed backpack and drop it down - it's the commute, not the time to stake a position of annoyance.
8.  Cellphone - if you must use it get on and GET OFF!
9.  Speaking of getting off - let the people OFF and out first - you ignorant idiot - this will allow you to board in the space they vacated.
10.  Do not push me again.  Seriously - I might display the MUNI +1 anger I keep bottled up inside and be terribly late for work because of you.  Don't do it again.

11. people eating hearty meals and leaving the mess on the floor and seats.

Why narrow it down to Muni?

I had a guy tryingto push his way onto the BART train while we were trying to get off this AM.
I said, "Excuse Me" very politely and he said, "Yer Excused." and kept pushing on.

I said back, "No, that meant get the F**K out of the way and let people off"  and I pushed past him half spinning him in the process.  

He wasn't happy about it but he didn't say anything more either...

11. If the train is crowded, move to the middle of the train
12. If you have a big bag, you can stand and hold it or sit on it.  Your bag didn't pay, so it doesn't get its own seat.  If your bag is too big to manage, it's time to change your packing habits.

I was at the Embarcadero station trying to get on and people who crowd the door and don't get on until the right one comes by.  Seriously, people in back of you are trying to get on the train too...MOVE IT!!!

I'll add to the one where some people won't let passengers off before boarding is annoying too.

linda, couldn't you have put your contact in at home? i mean, i'm all for patience, but that story sounds like you weren't expecting patience so much as you were expecting people to accept the fact that you were rushing out of the house and so had to finish your basic hygiene in public. sounds a bit self involved to me.

i'm sorry, linda, my reading comprehension sucks today. i didn't realize that you explained why you had to take out your contact lens.

Speaking of personal hygiene - cutting your nails on MUNI?  Are you kidding me?!??!! When the fuck did public transportation = your private bathroom?

cindy, that's disgusting. i also get annoyed when i see people doing make up and stuff on muni. i don't need to see that shit. get up a few minutes earlier.

13.  I do not want to see you apply your makeup.  Get up earlier, do it at home.  (Stop making me wish for a MUNI type sudden stop and a poke in the eye for you and your liner pencil or mascara wand or eye shadow applicator.)

I hate to say it, but most times I've seen that, it's some wrinkled old asian dude. Next time I'd see my dad, I say "don't you go doing that in public, dad!" like it was his fault.

14. Do NOT clip your nails while riding public transportation.

I can releate to all of this...( I'm a regular BART user )...

cindy, your dad wears make up? and applies it in public?

primadonna sensitive muni riders, I am going to pick my nose and scratch myself while sitting down in the front of the bus while coming back with my checked luggage.

i always get the nail clippers - and the flossers

the worst are the urinators and defacators

I used to beg god everyday to get me out of commute HELL

now I thank Her everyday

15) Do not paint your nails on MUNI. Esp. not early in the morning.

Suge - well we don't really talk about it out loud...we just say don't do 'THAT'. Repressed asian family, you know...

ah, sorry, cindy, i have this crazy irish family that could use some repression so we stop making fun of each other and telling embarrassing stories in public.

14. littering

leaving newspaper on the seat.  there is a small chance that the next person will read it, but more than likely it will be thrown on the ground and no one will pick it up to read it or throw it away.

spitting sunflower seed shells onto the floor.  do you spit your sunflower seed shells out on your floor at home?  

i spotted someone's (i am guessing) empty jagermeister bottle on caltrain the other day.

basically it comes down to if you can carry it onto the bus/bart /train you can carry it off too.

Newsflash, many SF folks are some of the most uncivilized people I've ever seen. People have zero common courtesy here. And they say new yorkers are rude. The scene on Muni is just the epitome of it all.

oh i guess i should have number it 16

i totally remind people to take their crap with them, nicely of course.  oh excuse me i think you left something behind.  everytime they have picked up there trash.

alot of these complaints are applicable to elevators as well.  There is almost nothing worse than a co-worker stepping into an elevator smelling like they spent the night sleeping at Naan and Curry.

Just think riding muni as if going to a party every time. This will crack you up.

oops!  their trash

I have to say, I love it when tourists get on MUNI - they're all excited and giggly and talkative with strangers.  "OH MY this is a tight squeeze. HEE HEE!  Is it always like this?  Where's 9th? Is this 9th? Do we get off here?"

why do tourists insist on riding during commute hours? STICK TO THE CABLE CARS.

Public transportation sucks but with gas prices rising expect more freaks to join you............

i shared the secret of the express buses with a tourist looking to get from downtown to the richmond.

I have become very sensitive to smell lately.  My asthma kicks up when people have on the smelly deodorant .  It feels like someone had cut my oxygen supply!

i ride muni for the good manners. doesn't everyone?

Zhenyu L. says:

Just think riding muni as if going to a party every time. This will crack you up.

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i think i read that in a fortune cookie once.