       C
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| Figure 2.  Missing the Bus, Again
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| A  =  Arriving bus situations,
| B  =  Best case situations,
| C  =  Current situation,
| D  =  Decoration situations,
| H  =  Holiday situations.

I think that this pretty graphically says what I've been striving to say
in the last thousand words or so, and I am tempted to leave it at that,
but temptations to desist, you will have observed, are the sorts of
temptations I can easily resist!  So let me attempt to sum it up
all over again, this time once agai