i check my pockets any time someone in the street/bus/train/pub/bar bumps into me for any reason.

Meh, if you get any of my credit cards to give you cash more power to you.

kbronsito: i check my pockets any time someone in the street/bus/train/pub/bar bumps into me for any reason.

me too. if any stranger ever touches you, there is a reason. women who like who (who are also worth talking to) will not randomly hug you. they will act like a normal person and start a conversation. keep in mind, women are people too, they also fear rejection, when their feelings are at stake. they don't fear rejection when it is a con or a solicitation.

I have different strategies. In particularly dangerous settings, I take my ID and credit cards out of my wallet. I keep a $10 or $20 in the wallet, and keep the real cash with my ID and credit card in either my front pocket or socks (if it's a really sketchy part of town).

That way, I have a dummy wallet with enough money so that I won't get beat up for not having any money. also, people trying to rob me will likely be satisfied by the wallet and leave me be, while I lost nothing of value (but for the $20 and a cheap wallet).

untaken_name: Subby, check you pronouns.

the second person pronoun remains consistent enough throughout.

i think a missing verb is the issue.

i will assume subby made a typographical error. however, it may be the case that he was going for some zero or implied being verb. without a proper introduction, that type of behavior is frowned upon. and even with proper introduction, there better be some deserving reason to zero your being verbs.

for example: "that cat is crazy. That cat... crazy!" I have implied the being verb, I zeroed it out to emphasize my flabbergastedness. it is a swarmy technique to show you that I'm thunderstruck, so thunderstruck that I've failed to speak the language.

only saying "that cat crazy" is stupid. It sounds like something is missing. I'm not flabbergasted, I'm perturbed, annoyed, and ready for my afternoon nap.

I don't carry valuables with me, so hey! Free hug!

Maud Dib: Savian: If a man approaches me for a hug he's getting a stiff-arm.

If I don't know you, you better give me a 3-4 ft. cone of comfort zone around me if there is no reason to be near me.
Some young punk was walking beside me in a grocery store parking lot, there was no one else around. He was behind me, and as he got closer and closer, I gripped my car keys in my fist and prepared to jab his frikkin' eyeballs out.
Don't get me started on old Asians in the checkout line. F*ckers have NO sense of personal space.
I usually fart on them when they get too close.


So... basically, you're saying "I'm warning you! If I don't know you and you get too close, I will get very tense and nervous and my mood will generally decline, and I'll probably post about the stuff I was completely ready to do any minute."

/*hovers over you*

When I travel in sketchy places I use a money belt and keep a cheap wallet in my back pocket that contains expired gift cards and old business cards and crap. It's my version of a honey pot. But no one has ever pick-pocketed me! I was even swarmed by gypsies in Tuzla, Bosnia and none of them tried to steal my wallet. They just begged like usual.

Darn it.

thelordofcheese: pute kisses like a man: kbronsito: i check my pockets any time someone in the street/bus/train/pub/bar bumps into me for any reason.

me too. if any stranger ever touches you, there is a reason. women who like who (who are also worth talking to) will not randomly hug you. they will act like a normal person and start a conversation. keep in mind, women are people too, they also fear rejection, when their feelings are at stake. they don't fear rejection when it is a con or a solicitation.

I have different strategies. In particularly dangerous settings, I take my ID and credit cards out of my wallet. I keep a $10 or $20 in the wallet, and keep the real cash with my ID and credit card in either my front pocket or socks (if it's a really sketchy part of town).

That way, I have a dummy wallet with enough money so that I won't get beat up for not having any money. also, people trying to rob me will likely be satisfied by the wallet and leave me be, while I lost nothing of value (but for the $20 and a cheap wallet).

Altoid cans are the perfect size for standard cards.
/for when I used to go to clubs

good to know. but, although i go through all these measures, I'm not terribly afraid of pickpockets. A pickpocket goes after what's available and disappears. I'm not going to enter into despair if I lose some materials.

My real fear is armed robbery. It's the more popular crime where I live. an armed robber won't leave until he's satisfied that you've coughed up your possessions. Also, he may become violent if he doesn't get satisfied. Again, I'm not too concerned with the material, but I don't like violence, especially violence against me. It's a particularly distasteful affair.

Since armed robbery is the fear, I want to appear like I have nothing in my pockets but my wallet. that way, they go for the wallet decoy and score and easy $20. That $20 should be enough for one more fix of whatever this guy is after. He should leave satisfied with $20. If I have a bulge from a tin can, he might ask what's in my front pocket. then I'd lose the one thing I don't want to lose, my ID.

Credit cards can be replaced, and you suffer nothing for fraudulent charges. Cash is lost, but the amount of cash to lose in a robbery is relatively meaningless in the scheme of things. However, losing your license or ID requires a visit to the DMV. I hate the DMV almost as mush as I hate violence. In fact, going to the DMV is a violence. a violence against the soul.