So, we were just on the Muni underground. Miraculously, it was operating on time and only a little bit jerkily, but then again it isn't rush hour yet and we all know those trains like to have their biggest meltdowns right around 8 a.m. or 5 p.m. But we happened to notice this weird poster by the door saying "Riding with despair prohibited" and "keep dreams" and "it's better to have guts." What gives, Muni? Since when were you in the self-help business?
We're pretty sure our greatest despairing moments aboard Muni have occurred while trapped in a tunnel for 20 minutes, lurching forward by inches through a station while the doors fail to open for no rational reason besides backwards engineering, or standing on a crowded platform looking at an empty tunnel at rush hour. But apparently this campaign is in conjunction with the Gross National Happiness Index, and we're not sure what ends Muni thinks they're going to achieve with this partnership. Trying to make us less sad when the system breaks down?
