i'm glad you qualified that. i was getting tired of the "yo, just be down like me and you won't get effed with" attitude being proffered here. that's probably because i used to have the same attitude right up until i got jacked by two fifteen year olds while on foot about five doors down from my (former) apartment.

how i wished i'd been alone (my asthmatic wife was with me and wearing flip-flops - couldn't run) or on my bike.

but i wasn't, and it happened, and i'm way more cautions (nervous? anxious? damaged?) now than ever before.

still, you have to live life.