.#22 Fillmore Bus – Seating Beating
"October 2009 San Francisco
Ok chilrens, lets get back on our favorite bus line, the rolling home of all that is unsavory about public transit, the #22 Fillmore. Today the theme is Beat-Downs.
Recently, I rode home with the evening after-work crowd: office workers, students, working men and derelicts. Not as colorful as the late-night crowd, just a standard cross-section of urban rush hour in the city. A leathery old black man was sitting up front in the handicapper section, with his light-weight aluminum walker folded up next to him. He would not shut up. He talked loudly and repetitively about anything and nothing, and generally made a crowded ride less bearable. Clearly he was undermedicated and overserved, a common sight in an idealist town that rolls out the red carpet for all of America’s marginal populations. No way to hush this guy without a big free dose of methadone, right?"
Housefly
Ok chilrens, lets get back on our favorite bus line, the rolling home of all that is unsavory about public transit, the #22 Fillmore. Today the theme is Beat-Downs.
Recently, I rode home with the evening after-work crowd: office workers, students, working men and derelicts. Not as colorful as the late-night crowd, just a standard cross-section of urban rush hour in the city. A leathery old black man was sitting up front in the handicapper section, with his light-weight aluminum walker folded up next to him. He would not shut up. He talked loudly and repetitively about anything and nothing, and generally made a crowded ride less bearable. Clearly he was undermedicated and overserved, a common sight in an idealist town that rolls out the red carpet for all of America’s marginal populations. No way to hush this guy without a big free dose of methadone, right?"
Housefly
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