August 6, 2008

One last MUNI story (or "Take my dignity. Please.")

There won't be too many of these anymore, so I felt like I should get this one down for posterity.

I was on an overcrowded 38 Geary recently. It was about 2am, and the bus was jammed with twentysomethings making the drunken cross-town ride home after the bars closed. Admittedly I've been there once or twice, but tonight I wasn't drunk. I was just going home late and, for reasons not worth going into, I had a thin little black mustache penciled onto my face.

It made me look decidedly creepy.

Because it was so full, I didn't have a seat. Instead, I stood in the aisle holding onto a rope handle that dangled from the ceiling. I swayed and jerked with the bus's movements and tried in vain to keep the straps of my bag on my shoulder.

As we paused at a stoplight, I needed to give my arms a brief break from being up in the air over my head. I hadn't even let go of that rope strap for five seconds when the bus suddenly lurched forward and I was caught off-guard and went to the floor. On my knees. In between the legs of a surprised young Latino man sitting nearby.

I'm sure I flushed bright red. "Excuse me," I mumbled from under my little mustache. He didn't say anything. My eyes met with those of an elderly Asian man staring at me unsympathetically from a nearby seat. Because all the seats were full, there was nothing to grab onto as I was getting up. My shoulder bag and I bumped the knees and ankles of those standing around as I struggled to get to my feet while the bus was bouncing around.

Just as I was nearly in a completely upright position and reaching up to reclaim my rope strap, the bus lurched again. And I was sent to my knees in between the legs of this man. Again. This time my chin actually bounced off of his thigh.

"Oh, my God. I'm so sorry," I gasped. He shifted around uncomfortably and looked out the window.

"Dude, if you wanted to suck him off so bad why didn't you just say so?" I heard one young guy snicker to his friends.

So, um. Yeah. Did I mention I have a car now?

2 comments:

Yannie said...

Well, I hope the Latino guy is at least a little of cute.

Bree said...

OK, so now that you have a car, you think you won't be taking MUNI ever again? I hope for your sake you won't, but isn't it a bit unlikely, given: traffic sucks, parking sucks, and, most importantly, you might want to drink late at night and not want to operate a motor vehicle afterwards. So get prepared for further indignities, and the inevitable redemptive blog entries!