I have arranged my notes into easy-to-spoon 'tendencies' for the pleasure of the reader. You're very welcome.

1. The tendency to stake out territory: No matter how many stops are between the staker's destination and the present location of the bus in linear space and time, the staker may feel it necessary to stand right in the path of any who wish to use the exiting facilities. Of course they will move when someone tries to escape the vehicle, bu then they will move right back into the same precise spot. Also, there seems to be a direct relation between the size of the package one is transporting, and the inconvenience of where they place it.

2. The tendency to talk about lobster: For some reason, I have been a direct observer of conversations involving the quality, size, price, and etymology of all things lobster-related at least five times now. I just felt like I had to mention that.

3. The tendency to run into one another: People run into other people who they've known before more often than proper health guidelines recommend. You know who you are. If you aren't sure if you are at risk, I'll let you know the next time I run into you.

4. The tendency to interrupt others involved in perfectly nominal activities such as reading, formula derivation and manipulation, mental ice-hockey, recording of human observations, etc ... with meaningless banter about the effects of an increasing state of global hostility, the new Denny's commercial, socks, etc...

5. The tendency to talk out loud (to yourself or otherwise) on the bus in the presence of the rest of the people on the bus about your belief that they're all either (a) not listening, (b) not caring, (c) not conscious, (d) too scared, or (e) too involved with playing their own mind games to realize that you don't really care whether or not they're listening anyhow to your conversation about your belief that the rest of the people on the bus are all either (a) not listening, (b) not caring, (c) not conscious, (d) too scared, or (e) too involved with playing their own mind games to realize that you don't really care whether or nor they're listening anyhow to your conversation about your belief that the rest of the people on the bus are all either (a) not listening, (b) not caring, (c) not conscious, (d) too scared, or (e) too involved with playing their own mind games ...