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This week, we're going to do a Very Special Edition of "Ask a Muni Driver" as our driver is going to give us his list of "Things That Annoy the Crap Out of a Driver." He's also asking submissions from SFist readers to list their "Things That Annoy the Crap Out of Muni Riders." We've probably beaten that into the ground by now, but either post a comment in the comment section or e-mail me at jon@sfist.com and we'll put together a list for next week.
Anyways, back to the show.
This week I’ve decided to go a little bit off the grid and throw some stuff out there that nobody asked for. Here’s my Things That Annoy the Crap Out of a Driver list (least annoying first):
--Money. Please, people, please: If you’re paying cash, get it out of your purse/backpack/pocket/shoe before you climb the stairs. It’s beyond annoying to see someone talking on a cellphone, carrying a purse or backpack that could easily hold the Grand Canyon, spending five minutes leaning on the fare box, blocking everyone else’s efforts to get on the bus, counting out pennies from the nether reaches of their bag.
--Kids and money. Even though parents seem to think it’s cute as hell to let their darling try to put the dollar in the fare box, the rest of us just think the little rat is an untalented genetic nightmare with dexterity development issues. Parents, if you need confirmation of this, just look at the driver’s face, or scan the frowning visages of all the other passengers and you’ll have your answer. Save the cute stuff for homemade videos and grandma’s house.
--Backpacks. Carry one. Love it. But if it’s too damn heavy for you to hold by the top handle using your hand, dangling it down around your legs where it can’t do any major harm, you have too much stuff in there and should consider simplifying your life a little (or a lot). Nobody appreciates being smacked in the face, crotch, or any other body part by your wildly careening, heavy backpack as you attempt to twist and turn your way down the length of the bus towards the one seat in the back you AND your backpack won’t fit into.
--Umbrellas. Close the damned things BEFORE you get on the bus. The risk of getting a drop or two of polluted rainwater on your hair as you mount the steps is negligible compared to the thrashing and/or lawsuit you may be facing for putting out the eye of the little old lady/certified maniac/card-carrying former Federal prisoner sitting closest to the door. Those hyper-fashionable umbrellas ending in seven-inch stainless-steel spikes? Point that thing at my face as you’re coming up the stairs one more time and I swear I’ll….
--Strollers. How can you need a conveyance that’s only lacking a Honda engine to be considered a car in order to carry a 12-lb. baby? And what makes you think you – or even you, me, and four of your sighing, straining friends – can get the damned thing up the stairs? Side question: how often does that creature evacuate its digestive tract, anyway? Do you really need an entire 24-pack of Pampers, 4 bottles, 27 toys, and three fresh outfits? If the eighty-year-old grandma from Chinatown can carry two babies slung over her shoulders one behind and one in front with a simple swath or strong fabric, and a pink plastic bag holding two diapers and 1 bottle dangling from one thin old arm, why can’t you?
--Crossing. Many of you seem to be genuinely unaware of this fact, but there is NO traffic law that prohibits cars from continuing to move forward in their lane, even if a bus is stopped and unloading passengers onto the sidewalk from its lane. This means that just because I’m stopped, it may not be a good idea from the survival/Darwin point of view to step nonchalantly out into the street in front of the bus under the assumption that all the traffic YOU CAN’T SEE on the other side of the bus either a) doesn’t exist because you can’t see it, or b) will stop because drivers know how important it is for you to cross the street right at that second. Man, am I tired of honking at dumbass passengers who are about to be roadkill in front of my eyes.
--Boarding. Here’s a simple math lesson: If you let folks EXIT the bus before you try to BOARD the bus, the odds GO UP that you will get a seat. If plain old self-interest doesn’t work for you, it’s a sure bet any lecture about common decency and simple good manners will fall flat. Sheesh!
--Crowding. Okay, most of you probably hear this phrase in your nightmares, but still: “MOVE TO THE BACK FOR CHRISSAKES!” Nothing back there is more likely to bite you than what’s up front, which is a driver who can’t bloody see and would really, really like to.
--Double-parked cars. If you ever think San Francisco could effectively enforce a no-smoking-on-public-streets law, consider this: I have NEVER seen a double-parked car sitting smack-dab in the way of a bus lane, or even in the bus zone, get a freakin’ ticket. I know the cops have better things to do, but so, my dear passengers, do you. And the rude bastards who double-park are slowing down the buses more than any other factor. I mean that. Nothing, but nothing, slows me down more than the incredible plethora of double-parked cars. “Double Fines for Double Parking”??? They could’ve saved the money spent on the signs.
--Coffee shops. Okay, this is kinda a continuation of the above, which apparently bothers me even more than I thought. So here goes: Dammit, I know your coffee is important to you in the morning. But you don’t have the right to stop bus traffic (and other cars too, stuck behind me and cussing MUNI) just so you can avoid the parking space halfway down the block and dash into Peets or Starbucks, where you will inevitably wait in line for 10 minutes before obtaining your fix. We all love caffeine, but if you can’t even think through parallel parking your SUV so you can get your joe in a civilized manner in the morning, maybe you could spring for a really good home espresso machine. You can afford it. Rudeness this breathtaking really makes me long for the phaser setting marked “destroy”.
I would love to hear your “Things That Annoy Me About MUNI Drivers” list.
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Word on the double parkers, YES THAT MEANS YOU UPS! There needs to be a major DPT jihad on this.
Do you really want to read that "Things That Annoy Me About Muni Drivers" list? Sounds like you've got it bad enough already.
Backpacks on the bus are my pet peeve. I commute to work on a bus line that also serves students traveling to and from several area schools. Thanks to the elimination of school lockers, these young commuters are forced to lug an entire semester's worth of education around on their backs. Unfortunately, your average schoolgoer has not yet grokked that his/her enormous European hiker backpack extends a good 18"-24" beyond his/her spine, making it impossible to pass, especially when he/she stands in the aisle just behind the farebox. If the kids weren't all wearing iPods or talking on cellphones, it might be possible to let them know they're in the way.
If strollers are one engine short of a car, those damned double-wides are the Hummers of strollers! There ought to be a law...
What annoys me are the herky-jerky drivers -- the ones who are not aware that the gas and brake pedals can be pressed to different degrees, and are either going pedal-to-the-metal or slamming the brakes. The worst is when they are inching forward at a stoplight, and they go gas-brake-gas-brake-gas-brake in succession, jerking everyone forward and back and giving everyone a headache.
I completely agree with the comments above. As one of the students who had one of those back packs and rode with it the thing i hated most was that it was more painful to put it on/take it off than to just leave it on for the bus ride.
i dont really have many peeves about bus drivers, except there are some that i wonder if they cant slow down gradually. there have been times when i have been jerked on buses when there is NO OTHER TRAFFIC. do the buses need to be tuned?
i think my biggest pet peeve about other passengers are ones who work very hard (ie all that makeup, young clothes, plastic surgery) to look under 50 and then GET ANGRY when you do not give them your seat. im sorry, but if you want to be a senior citizen OWN the title.
Given how often we read about MUNI's financial woes and the ever present threat of increased fares, it's terribly annoying to see drivers allow multiple riders to get on the bus without paying or showing a pass. I'm talking through the front door, people. They just walk right on by and no one says a thing. I see this almost every day while taking the 48 line to and from the Mission to 22nd St Caltrain.
Oh my god, herky-jerky drivers are the worst. C'mon! Keep it smooth!
Inconsistency between drivers in regard to back-door boarding (I know, sounds dirty) is a problem as well. One driver will scream at back-door boarders to get off and re-board through the front, refusing to move until every Fast Pass can be inspected, while a different driver will encourage passengers to squeeze into whatever doors are available, fares be damned, gotta get back on schedule. MUNI can't count on passengers obeying the rules if they're not sure of them themselves.
Sorry - I have to agree with the drivers who rightfully fear for their lives if they confront certain demographics for not paying a fare. That's why I want POP on the buses - let the professionals deal with the fare evaders.
That still didn't stop the lovely 50-something female driver I had two weeks ago on the 6 from refusing to move the bus until everyone who got on the back door got off and entered through the front door. You go girl!
The rest of this list was spot-on! I seethe at the women who act all surprised that they're supposed to pay a fare when they get on the bus and then spend 5 minutes digging through their black hole of a purse for change. Sorry, ladies, I've never seen a man dig through his murse for fare.
One other thing I'm surprised you didn't mention is drivers who hit the gas to get past a bus re-entering traffic, just because they don't want to get stuck behind the bus. I see this happening all the time on AC Transit and it's really dangerous.
As for the passenger stuff, most of it could be nicely summarized in one little maxim: "Passengers need to realize that buses are PUBLIC transportation, and riding them requires being considerate of the PUBLIC around you as well as your own needs."
I 4th (5th?) the herky-jerky driver problem -- for that very reason, I will only head towards the back either when the bus is stopped or it's not so packed that I have to worry about careening into anybody, let alone step on their toes (and yes, I learned the hard way).
My peeve is regarding those few but all-too-memorable drivers (almost always late at night) who will pull over to the stop, look like they're going to stop, look straight at you, and then pull away very quickly, leaving me to either wait for the next bus or start walking - if it's late at night, it's generally the latter. It's bad enough they don't stop, but do they really have to mock you for it?
I suggest a column about pet-peeves about our fellow muni passengers. I think that most muni drivers are doing their best and am not that peeved with those that are. Of course, there are those few bad apple drivers. As for the herky-jerky, my guess is that some buses are more sensitive (i.e. have controls that can't be sensitively modulated, and it's less the driver's fault than the bus's (i.e. muni maintenance, and/or age of the buses themselves -- I rode one of the new buses the other day, nice and smooth, except for the extra strong braking action that perhaps the driver wasn't quite used to).
Bravo, Muni Driver! They were all great pet peeves and as a passenger I share every one.
Things that annoy the crap out of this Muni rider are mostly other people, but not entirely:
1. Dudes who think the bus is a great place to air out the ol' sack and fling their thighs wide, ignoring the squirming damsel squashed into the middle seat.
2. Dudes (often the same ones) who pretend not to see the little old ladies or moms with groceries or people on crutches who are standing up right in front of them.
3. Tall dudes (sometimes the same ones) who lean their entire backs against the upright posts on the N-Judah, during rush hour, pretending not to see the five-foot-tall chicks dangling helplessly from the overhead parallel bars (which are really way up there if you're short).
4. That horrible squeal that the LRV doors make when they really want to close and some choad's backpack is frustrating their desires. I think I've lost about ten percent of my hearing after riding Muni for three years.
Muni drivers seem just fine, except for the ones who let people out a block west of Carl & Cole and then blow right through the real stop. Look, if you just let some people off, then you clearly have room to let some people ON at C&C! Running late or something? Congratulations, you just made a hundred more people really late. I bet SF businesses lose at least ten productive man-hours every time that happens.
-moe
I've posted it once and I'll post it again, double parkers, bus stop blockers, and other private autos that block Muni should simply be towed. Towed vehicles would be taken to the city appraiser to assess their value for public auction, and if less than $5000, crushed and recycled for material new buses and/or trains.
We recycle garbage in this town, no?
I've been guilty of the backpack rudeness many times. Like bornandraised, I just find it a pain to take it off. Not a good excuse, just the truth. Tonight on my very crowded 2-car L, I did take off my pack before entering the train.
I really wish we had POP on all vehicles. Vancouver is heading in that direction and is trying out all-door boarding on its very busy 99-Bline to UBC. They are testing it now, when school is out, to work out the kinks.
We need a site like BART RAGE for Muni.
http://www.bartrage.com/
A friend once told me about a time when she had on her backpack during the whole bus ride (while she was distractedly talking to her friend as well), and a pickpocket swiped her wallet from the front pocket of the backpack.
That's another reason to take the damned thing off -- or at least keep your valuables well tucked away!
My biggest passenger pet peeve was mentioned once on the N-Judah Chronicles--EDGEHOGS. Those bastards who take the aisle seat and refuse to move over. Instead, they expect you to levitate over them or somehow fit into the 2" of legroom they have to get to the window seat. Maybe I should stop trying to be nice and just "accidently" whack 'em with my bag.
And a second to the woman who complained about tall passengers hogging one of the few vertical bars on the streetcars. I'm 5'3" and can only painfully reach the top bar that runs horizontally through the car.
You know what I hate about some Muni drivers? It's like 10:30 or 11pm-ish at night, I'm on the M and they decide to stop at a liquor store, leaving the doors completely wide open in a not-so-safe-at-night neighborhood. I'm usually the only person on the M, too, so of course my comfort level goes to a negative ten. They don't just do it at night, but also around the 11am-12pm hour, when there aren't too many passengers. I sat in a train for almost ten minutes while some lady did her grocery shopping. I also liked that she didn't say anything (but one driver once actually said to me, "I'll be back. Is that okay?"). Seriously?!!@!!!!! That's why I LOATHE the M: late trains AND lame drivers.
Honorable mention: when they say stuff over the loudspeaker and they whisper. Only when the doors open is when you realize they want you to get off and board inside the West Portal terminal. Lame AGAIN!
I actually HAVE gotten a ticket for parking at a bus stop -- because it was a double stop, there was no street parking, it was for five minutes (of course, right?), and because double parking is MORE disruptive to traffic. Of course, the cop who gave it to me had been parked at an adjacent bus stop, and then parked behind me in the bus stop in order to issue the ticket.
What actually annoys me more than getting that ticket is that if all buses (or hell, even a MAJORITY of buses) actually pulled into their stops all the time instead of offloading in the traffic lane, I would be somewhat less bitter about the large contribution I made to SF this year.
BTW, a ticket for double parking, which arguably blocks traffic just as much, if not more, is about a quarter of what the bus zone ticket was.
Being 5'2", I'll 3rd the hogging of the vertical bars by those who clearly don't need them...
Signed,
The guest who 4thed the herky-jerky drivers...
Doesn't the it all boil down to the "me me me" attitude so many people especially "the younger generation" have today?
MY backpack- who cares that it hangs 90" behind me and slams people unconscious as I bang it into heads of people seated?
MY coffee, who cares if it spills and scalds the flesh off of someone. Damn- I have to by another one.
MY baby stroller. After all, the most beautiful child in the world must be wheeled regally. Those who object are just plain insensitive to what breeding brings.
It's MY seat. Who cares if a 90 year old blind man is standing in front of me. I got here first and it's hard to IM while standing.
Speaking of cell phones, who cares if I subject everyone else to my aural vomit. Gotta talk REALLY loud when I stay in touch.
Could we import some judges from Singapore, and start whipping guilty people in public?
Awesome suggestion, mariconsoy. Or as an alternative, send offenders to live in Singapore for 6 months. Hope they remember not to chew gum or drink bottled water on the train!
The reason people don't take their money out before they get on the bus is that they get panhandled if they do.
I'll totally admit to being guilty of a couple of these crimes (i.e. the digging for change in the bottom of my bag) but in my defense I was purposely the last to board (so while I dug my change out, the driver was already moving on.)
That said, why the hell do people need to scream on their cellphones? I'll answer my phone or place a call if I need to but I murmur the entire time. I swear guys.
I agree about the aisle hogs who act as if you're killing their first born child when you try to get past them to the window seat on a crowded bus or train. That's almost as annoying as the change-digger-outers.
My other most annoying pet peeve - the multitude of obviously unemployed people who feel the need to travel at 8 am from the Sunset to get to the best deals at the Chinatown produce market or the soup kitchen in Civic Center. Oftentimes, these are the same individuals who are horking the aisle seats. Would it really kill them to wait until 9:30 to head out on their errands and/or panhandling?
I get tired of the "Wall of China" that stands lined up in front of the MUNI Metro doors when I'm trying to exit and just the hell off the train. I try to be kinda nice and say "Excuse me," but anymore ... I take advantage of being built like a mack truck and just bust right through the fuckers.
Alright ---
The thing I hate most about MUNI drivers is when they run the red just because they have some momentum. I've almost been killed a couple of time on Oak St with the timed lights, when some bus crusies through at 35 MPH against the light.
At 5'0 I'll 4th the vertical bar hogging peeve.
Relating to drivers, I hate it when they (usually the late night buses) smoke on the bus during their downtime! It's nasty stepping into the bus and being greeting with a big billow of ashtray smoke.
hey if you want to complain about th ebackpacks dont complain about the kids wearing them (okay well the small few of us who really werent trying to be jerks by doing it), complain about the SCHOOL DISTRICT who makes us lug all of that home! NEWS FLASH most of those students would rather not be wearing those huge things as well. were on your side!
to mariconsoy's comment:
MY life that cannot be disrupted by students who have been forced to wear huge things. why cant they just go overturn the school district on their own!
Maybe a better question is why there's no dedicated school bus service in San Francisco -- don't most other cities that require students to attend schools on the other end of the city from where they live provide a fleet of yellow buses to get them there?
My biggest fellow-passenger-pet-peeve? That most people don't help self-police some of these minor inconveniences. The driver's way up at the front and is jaded from seeing all this crap before. And, for example, when 20 people are trying to crowd into a one-car inbound L at Church Station at 8:43 in the morning, and you can SEE the passengers between the doors who have about 4 square foot of space in all directions... that's the tragedy of the commons, not the driver's fault.
How about a grassroots campaign to RAISE AWARENESS (gently) among our fellow passengers? A few possible suggestions - in a polite but firm tone of voice:
(To non-movers) "Please move to the center of the car, we are very crowded here by the doors! Thanks."
(To a school kid) "Excuse me, could you please take that backpack off - it's getting in the way of the people around you. Thanks."
(To a slow-payer) "I don't mean to be rude, but it really speeds things up for everyone if you get your fare out beforehand."
Of course I'm NOT suggesting anyone get hostile or, for that matter, get into it with someone ELSE who looks hostile. But if we all got a little more comfortable with gentle confrontation, the world would be a better place.
The funniest part of a drivers' yelling, "MOVE To the REAR," is watching the reaction of passengers standing in the aisle.
Every time they will look around at each other as if to determine which of them the driver was speaking to.
Be nice to the kids - at least they're not being driven to school in SUVs.
In defense of the baby strollers-- I babysit sometimes and the stroller thing is tough. I usually fold it up before I get on, which means I have to awkwardly get on and off holding both a toddler and a heavy-ass stroller -- even the cheap, easy to fold ones suck like that. And trying to get around town with a toddler WITHOUT a stroller is utter hell.
Also, the aisle seat hoggers-- I always consider them mere seat-holders for me when there aren't any others available. I have no qualms about climbing over them, when hardly anyone else will. Actually, I love taking those seats, just like I love flat-out saying "NO" to panhandlers, petitioners, and Scientologists--although they've never dared look me in the eye.
As a 6'4 person, I sit on the edge because my legs don't fit...I'll never give you guff about trying to get in or out, but I'm not gonna slide in and contort myself for you. (Of course I will move if someone really needs the seat)
The worst is when people get on at Duboce and start indignantly yelling at people on the train to "Move in, PLEASE! We're just trying to get to work!" when we're all already packed in and have been kissing each other's spleens since 19th and Judah.
6'4 guy again. I should add that I'd never make you climb over me.
I hadn't read through all the prior comments, so please pardon if this was already brought up. Regarding Backpacks: I visit New York City fairly often, I once remember that they have this print PSA on their subways and buses (like the ones overhead on our Muni) that ask you to hold your backpack at your side, instead of carrying it on your back.
The bottom line is that so many people are annoyingly oblivious and uncaring of the hazzards and discomfort they cause to others.
I'd like to second Mo's comment:
"Dudes who think the bus is a great place to air out the ol' sack and fling their thighs wide, ignoring the squirming damsel squashed into the middle seat."
That has puzzled me for years. I'll be squashed into a seat next to a reasonable normal looking guy who will insist on having his knees three-feet apart for the entire ride.
My biggest pet peeve is the passengers who will physically push other passengers out of the way to be the first one on the bus. WTF?
I agree with everything Muni Driver said, and my only real pet peeve about the drivers, is when an elderly or disabled person boards the bus, and the drivers won't wait ten seconds or so for them to be seated.
I watched it happen for the millionth time today on the 12 bus. A very frail woman in her eighties boards, flashes her fast past and the driver steps on the gas. I know the drivers are under pressure to keep on schedule but it always seems so heartless and cruel to see these poor folks hanging on for dear life.
Lisa
I think seniors and handicaps need their own bus for door-to-door service. With the population trending older (and more disabled due to aging), efficiencies won't get better ... and besides, folks don't travel on a bus to go from one bus stop to another bus stop ... they want to get somewhere.
OK, tried to sign in, but this new system is not working for me! And I'm with most of the posts above about passengers rudeness. And the "wall of china" that board in China town - can Muni produce any material on how to be a not-rude passenger in the dialects for them?
Biggest pet peeve #1 about drivers... when they have a perfectly good, empty, long, bus lane to pull into to pick up/drop off passengers, but they don't seem to want to loose their place in traffice, so they just nose the front of the bus sort of close to the curb... blocking traffic down the street, making passengers leap up to the steps. If the drivers don't want bus lanes, turn them into parking (see posts about double parking!) and let more people ride the bus.
pet peeve #2 - when they know their route ends mid-way on the route, but can't seem to communicate that to passengers, in english. If you get on the 30 downtown, and it's going to end at the VN turnaround, explain that to passengers at the stop before the end, so they can get off & wait for the next #30! Just stopping at the end and saying everyone off isn't winning you any points!
Lisa, drivers should always wait for seniors to be seated but it is really annoying when they pass up all the seats in the front and head stright to the back then two blocks later ring the bell and shuffle all the way back to the front to exit and more then likely cross in front of the bus. Say good-bye to that bus being on time
guest #43, I can do better, maybe.
One (or more) of the #5 Fulton drivers is in the habit of pulling into a bus zone, then pulling partway out again, blocking the lane on Fulton with the left front corner of the bus, while passengers get on and off.
This is directed toward drivers on the 43, 44, 6, and 66 lines, but could apply to any line: When approaching the stop at the southwest corner of 9th & Judah, pull *as far forward into the stop* as possible!
Time after time after time I see a 44 who is fully aware that a 43 and/or 6 is at the light, or vice-versa, pull up to the shelter, not the front of the zone, therefore blocking the next bus from pulling up. Trailing busses are forced to stop in the crosswalk (consequently blocking one or more lanes of traffic) because the driver in front of them didn't give any breathing room. Oh, and the 66 drivers need to park as far forward as possible - if they have 20 feet of space in front of them when they park, they only make the situation worse.
It seems like some drivers don't want to cooperate with *each other*. Must make for some tension back at the depot... "Hey, jerk, thanks for the lack of teamwork!"
I'd like to see drivers given permission to rip the shit out of the sides of cars illegally parked on Judah, on the southeast corner, right in front of the liquor store, too. Turning onto Judah from 9th is a bitch as it is.
One thing they are talking about at the CAC is to put cameras in the front of Muni buses and start handing out tickets by mail to double parkers.
Great idea and should raise some more revenue for Muni as well.
I admit that I sit on the outside of a pair of seats: it's a habit I learned in a self-defense class as a teenager, because if you sit on the inside some perv could block you in and give you no escape route. (Not that this has ever happened to me, but for a 13-year-old girl in a big city, empowering tips like this were helpful.) As an adult, I am fascinated by people who would rather stand and fume in passive-aggressive silence than simply make eye contact or say "excuse me."
Guest commenter #48 -- I also hate when people sit on the aisle, but at least I have heard two good excuses. But can they (or you) at least stand up when you are trying to pass them so you don't have to climb over their laps? Even better, offer the seat to a standing passenger rather than make them ask for it.
My one main driver peeve is the ones who let on a passenger who stinks to high heaven, thus making the ride unpleasant at best, sometimes genuinely nauseating, for the rest of the passengers for eternity, or until the bus is washed. I am compassionate toward the homeless, but this is really asking too much.
My daughter and I rode MUNI back to our hotel from a Giants game. First the bus was incredibly full and then the driver stopped for a maximum of 28.5 seconds at each stop. With 7000 people on the bus, that just isn't enough time to wade through the drunks, cell phone talkers and idiots to get off the bus. Many people were stranded, doomed to ride the entire route again. Others, like me revolted and screamed at the driver to stop at which time he slammed on the brakes so hard that I went flying into the 80 year old man in front of me. I caught a fistful of his nether region but I didn't care because we were able to get off the freaking bus.
On a lighter note, we rode many more times with little fan fare. Your bus system rocks compared to the crap we have in Austin!
Please don't turn SFist into ActLocallySF's stupid pet peeves forum.
i am a total muni girl. my lines are the 71 Haight, the 33 Stanyan and the 14 Mission.one of the things that really annoys the shit out of me is when the bus drivers leave you behind after they've been waiting for you at the bus stop to run 3 city blocks to catch it, plus they leave you with a smile. i friggin hate that. i respect my elders. i go out of my way to make sure seniors get seats. what i hate is when bullies fuck with people for no apparent reason. like grown men bothering little old ladies for change. that shit is annoying. or when the tourists get on the bus and look at me like i am some goddamn attraction. they obviously have never seen a transsexual riding public transportation.
i just want to scream out
"welcome to esseff!" then charge them 10 bux a pop for photo ops... see you on the bus!