I really like the M muni stop at Eucalyptus Drive in San Francisco. Every day, probably more than five hundred students from Lowell High School pass through there before walking the seven blocks down to school. It's a funny little neighborhood. On one side of the stop, there's a dentist office and the other side a house.
Last night I printed a note and outlined the electrical wires of the bus stop on top of the words. I found a way to put one of the May 2007 bus passes to use that I found on the floor when they became outdated a few days ago.
So this morning I got there early armed with duct tape and the sign, and I stuck it to the bottom of the pole that holds the electrical lines. There weren't many people around.
I walked back up to the bus stop to go home two hours later. I thought it might still be there, but when I got there it was gone. Only one strip of duct tape was stuck on the pole.
It made me a little sad that it was gone so quickly. I don't know why anyone would want to rip it off. It's not harmful; it's a public appreciation. It's celebrating something that usually gets overlooked. So why would it get ripped down so fast?