Thursday, July 30, 2009

Not on a Subway, But Still Fun

Was at the North Beach Festival, overhead this conversation between two dudes and the girlfriend of one of the dudes.

Dude One: Dude, You are SOOO INDIFFERENT to strippers.

Dude Two (with arm around girlfriend: Silence.

Dude One: "You are sooo indifferent to strippers, you're BORDERLINE GAY!"

Hmmm, in the girlfriends position, should she be happy her man isn't into strippers, or worried that her man isn't into the sight of a naked woman.

Stuff to ponder.

Dude, Where's My Weed...

Was riding home from Oak-town one night. I was tired and frustrated by work, in no mood to stand up riding the BART back home.

While walking through the car looking for a seat I saw a girl sit down then immediately get up from a 4-seat cluster. Tired and not thinking, I went straight to where she was sitting. Then I saw why she left.

Sitting there, half open, a plastic sandwich bag filled with marijuana buds. Some pothead had dropped their stash on the train!

I did what the girl did and left.

On instinct I shot a glance in the direction where the girl went, she shot me a knowing smile.

At the same time, some dude (or dudette), probably in Berkeley, was probably saying;

"WTF, where did my weed go."

Probably went home with some BART maintenance worker....

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog.

I've spent many years travelling the subways and city buses here in the San Francisco Bay Area. While on the bus and train I couldn't avoid listening in on some of the odd conversations that occurred around me. Besides the conversations there were the random things I'd come across -- odd scenes, unusual situations, strange people.

This blog is devoted to the random oddities that I come across. I hope you find this as amusing, or as shocking, as I find riding the rails everyday to and from work.

Note, I see this as a community blog. If you have a story you would like to share, your own oddball public transportation story, feel free to contact me. We'll figure out a way you can post on this website.

Enjoy...