Saturday, November 18, 2006

Week in Review - Part 2

Being a True City Dweller - Public Transportation

Tuesday

That morning, I was quite stoked to find a seat on the Muni. I was seated next to an African American boy (Punk 1) who appeared to be in his early teens. His friend (Punk 2) was seated behind us, and had his legs sprawled across one of the adjoining seats. At the Forest Hill Station, a man in his late 40’s tried to sit down on the empty seat next to Punk 2. Punk 2, refusing to remove his legs, started to yell “Yo brother, who the f*ck do you think you are?” The man, trying to be polite, asked Punk 2 to remove his legs so that he could sit, to which Punk 2 responded “This is a free country, I ain’t gots to do anything for you brother.” At this point, his friend sitting next to me, Punk 1, got into it as well. The two delinquents continued to spew their ghetto garbage to the poor middle aged gentleman for about 5 minutes, when a concerned gentleman called the driver to inform him of the situation. Upon hearing this call, Punk 1 walks up to the gentleman and states “Yo fool, do you know who I am. I can f*ck over your whole family man.” Other patrons started to speak their mind and were confronted by the same in-your-face treatment. At the Castro Street Station, the driver comes to our train and tells the boys that they need to take the next train. Punk 1 then proceeds to scream, “Woman, my stop is the next one. I need to go to school and get educated.” Punk 2 then walks up to the driver and bellows “You only picking on us because we black. If we white, Latino, or Asian, you would leave us alone.” The driver, who may I add is African American, rolls her eyes and reiterates her request. After much bickering, the two boys leave the train, thank goodness.

Thursday

Somewhere in between the Van Ness and Civic Center Station our train encounters a malfunction involving the breaks, resulting in an abrupt stop. Upon the sudden halt, bodies were flying, and one man actually flew from the middle of the bus all the way to the front. Luckily, no serious bodily harm came from the incident.

Public transportation…one of the joys of City living!

posted by: SF Housewife @ 11:40 PM

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