Going on a Pleasure ClipFellow riders, we have a bone (actually a small, keratinized piece of hardened protein) to pick with you: as we refrain from singing (ER #9), and instead focus on the sights and sounds of our transit ride, we're irritated when the clang, clang, clang of the trolley is interrupted by the snap, snap, snap of your nails. We understand the need to be adequately equipped as you claw your way to the top, but we're manicurious about the need to subject others to your nail clippings. With 14% of the population suffering from nail fungus, why should we have to deflect your high-velocity shrapnel of dead tissue? Etiquette states that the occasional filing of painful or dangerously sharp nails is acceptable, but clipping your nails on mass transit is not. So, be a hygiene hero and fight foul fingernail form as you ride. You'll not only steer clear of irritating passengers, but also avoid exposing them to fungi, bacteria, and viruses - a strategy that has these Muni Ladies waking up on the right side of the cuticle bed.
Muni Manner: Clip nails at home to curb personal grooming on mass transit. It's the safe and courteous thing to do.
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so true. Muni Diaries recently ran a diary by Rob about his having witnessed this very thing. should be common sense, but as with most points of etiquette, that's sadly not the case.
After a few years of riding the N, I thought I'd seen it all. Nail clippers, that's a new one.
and then there was the man who had his shirt
pocket filled with Q-tips and he proceeds to
stick them in his ear AND, oh yes, then his nose,
without bothering to get a new one for separate
orifices??????? GIMME A BREAK. How I was hoping
for a typical MUNI quick jerk stop ;-).
As a teenaged San Franciscan who cannot yet drive, I take Muni on a daily basis. I was delighted to find this blog, because I have witnessed most of these situations and was a little disgusted. Keep up the good work!
-Zoe-
Wow, this reminds me of a flight from LA to Dulles years ago when a nearby passenger, after describing to her companion every detail of her wardrobe selection and when precisely each garment would grace her frame, began to paint her nails. The cabin quickly filled with the fumes of ethyl acetate. These fumes, I might add, are precisely what entomologists use to kill insects and why nail care professionals wear masks. As we choked on her gases, she continued to paint her nails, oblivious to her poor manners until a passing flight attendant stopped dead in her tracks. The fight attendant turned and firmly told this caustic passenger that she cannot paint her nails on board a plane. Any plane. Ever.
Seriously, you Muni Manners ladies should offer your insight, writing skills and plain common sense to the airline, theater and retail industries to name just a few. Keep up the good work. Your admirerers are legion.
Dan
how can that be? people making manicure on a bus?!?!? disgusting...
hmmm. hence the liquid ban? but perhaps the ethyl acetate would kill all the nasty lice, bedbugs, crabs, etc
on those filthy blankets they do NOT ever clean.
But no, they are now charging for a blanket and pillow, as of yesterday ;-). ahwell.
RIDE SALLY RIDE!!
personally, i like to clip on mass transit systems as an act of philanthropy. i consider the act as similar to tipping, but more personal. i have been doing this for years and am now quite disturbed to think that perhaps my display of generosity has been miscontrued. i advise that those offended consider the various uses of nail leftovers. One could create an entirely organic collage, feed a colony of cockroaches, or, more practically, bury them and collect the resulting fossil fuels
What's even more disgusting is, sitting in your cube working while you hear nail clippers clipping away in the cube next to you.
Better yet, when you're sharing a cube, and the person is flossing their teeth in front of their computer screen.
I'm all for personal hygiene...but there's a time and a place for it...and in public isn't necessarily one of them.
OMG.
YES.... flossing has now become the norm morning
routine
on the bus. and use of those little toss away
(on the floor, of course) 'one use' flossers.
and the gross little globules go flying...GROSS!!
I do not want your last night's dinner on me or
for artwork. NASTY..
and people complain about ciggi butts..
I swear I am going to take up smoking on the
MUNI now.
There was a guy using dental floss on the N last week and he left it on the seat. Disgusting.
The problem is that your etiquette rule will never be seen, and wouldn't be understood even if it was, by the people who need to see/heed it.
Is it un-PC to note that 99% of the people who clip their nails on MUNI are FOB Chinese?
I think that this blog is a class act. Its strength is that it addresses behaviors in an objective, humorous and light way and does not rant against people and groups. Sunset Mike may or may not be correct, but, in my opinion, moving the conversation in the direction of his comment will inhibit the momentum of this blog as a force for change.
Sights and sounds of the muni should definitely not include those made by the evil snip snip snip of the manners-free
Years ago, on an inbound N car, in the Buena Vista tunnel, I'd once heard the clip/clip....clip/clip sound from the seat behind me. A young woman was cutting--I shit thee not--her young male friend's fingernails in the seat behind me.
I was just waiting for one clipping to go flying on some random trajectory. Instead of a post-hike tick-check, my travelling companion and I did a post N-Judah fingernail clippings check which, fortunately, came up negative.
The individuals in question were Asian, so my racist assertion was that such conduct was deemed acceptable due to differing standards of personal space.
This is my #1 MUNI pet peeve. So disgusting.
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