Foot Tapping

I like performing subtle social experiments when the situation presents itself. I was on the bus from Seattle to Everett today (for Thanksgiving), and there was a couple on the bus that kept looking over at me. I was the only one sitting in an isle seat, so I kindof stood out from the rest I guess, and they were sitting on one of the side seats that faces the isle.

Anyways, I was rocking out to my iPod as usual, tapping my foot on the floor, and drumming with my fingers on the iPod. They sat there quietly looking around, making comments from time to time. Their feet still. I noticed that whenever one or both of them looked over at me, they slowly started to tap their feet. Hmm... an experiment.

So I kept an eye with my peripheral so as not to creep them out. Anytime they were looking forward, or where we were going, their feet stood still. But again, anytime they looked my way, I began to see a foot start to tap. Sometimes it would last a few seconds, sometimes just a couple of taps. This went on for the entire hour bus ride. The traffic was terrible.

Then I thought to myself, whenever I see someone rocking out to their music, as far as I can recall, I end up thinking of a song or whatever and start tapping my foot. It's almost like yawning I ugess. I theorize that you have to have a pretty musical/artistic mind for this experiment to work. I also noticed the guy sitting next to them, had been listening to his music and sitting still for quite a while. After a while, a couple of glances my way, he began rocking out.. haha. My foot happened to be out in the isle, the only foot showing...tapping...drumming. It was all pretty subtle, I wasn't drumming with pencils on my legs or anything. Just lightly tapping my foot. Interesting.. Good times.