[Lurking Libertarian]

3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English,

Sorry, no one in California takes the bus.

[The_Reader_David]

No one in southern Califorinia or the Central Valley takes the bus. Plenty of flakey 'Save the Whales' types in the Bay Area don't own cars, and there's a fair bit of SF, Berkley and Oakland that you've got to reach by bus, as it's too far from BART or the cable cars to reach conveniently by foot. (One reason I always rent a car when I'm there: I don't feel like wasting half a day on a bus to venerate St. John Maximovich--Holy Virgin is way west on Gerry--or get to Japantown.)