Friday, July 07, 2006
Trains and Thangs
This morning one of my friends sent me an email about some crazy guy in New York attacking and mugging people with 2 power saws on the train system. The same friend also sent an AP story about a tourist getting stabbed on a New York train last month. Now we all know that New York is big and bad but I’m starting to get a little miffed. Why do they have to rule the craziness of public transportation too?
Everyone who’s anyone knows that San Francisco has the best public transportation crazies. Our crazies are the most well known and are the most eccentric. Case in point: When I had some friends visiting a couple years ago, we saw a fight on a very crowded bus between a teenager and a man about 50 because he sat on her Chinese takeout. In his defense, the bus was crowded and she only paid for one seat. In her defense, well there was none. Needless to say once the fight was broken up and Chinese food was splattered all over the back of the bus, a homeless man made the priceless comment “I could’ve eaten that!” Mind you that’s the most BORING story about riding public transportation in SF.
So what does New York do? They up the ante by getting violent. That’s just great! The crazies out here in SF take pride in being the wackiest on the trains and busses. So now our kooks will be attacking people. I just hope that when they do attack, it’s all the tourists here from NY.
Everyone who’s anyone knows that San Francisco has the best public transportation crazies. Our crazies are the most well known and are the most eccentric. Case in point: When I had some friends visiting a couple years ago, we saw a fight on a very crowded bus between a teenager and a man about 50 because he sat on her Chinese takeout. In his defense, the bus was crowded and she only paid for one seat. In her defense, well there was none. Needless to say once the fight was broken up and Chinese food was splattered all over the back of the bus, a homeless man made the priceless comment “I could’ve eaten that!” Mind you that’s the most BORING story about riding public transportation in SF.
So what does New York do? They up the ante by getting violent. That’s just great! The crazies out here in SF take pride in being the wackiest on the trains and busses. So now our kooks will be attacking people. I just hope that when they do attack, it’s all the tourists here from NY.
