Always make sure your trunk lid is locked and check your back seat and floor before you get into your car.
And under the car, as you approach it.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Jan 10, 2005 2:57:43 pm PST #4552 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2005 2:57:53 pm PST #4553 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know I'm nobody's personal safety role model, but I hadn't realised precisely -- it's not that I'm looking to not get mugged on the way to my car, it's that I'm looking to not be startled by a mugger on the way to my car.
I don't do the key thing, since my remote unlocking device is a huge blocky thing that would throw my punch off no end. I am, however, likely to not make my purse too hard to get at -- I don't want to get in a tug of war about it. If they get it away clean, then they can have it.
It's not that I don't want to be robbed. It's that I don't want to get hurt (worse than my mugger).
Atropa - Jan 10, 2005 2:59:05 pm PST #4554 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I've deliberately broken someone's wrist with my purse.
Damn! I think your purse is bigger than mine.
The current one is a metal-frame leather purse I got at a vintage store, and it's about 9" tall and 11" long. The purse I used to break someone's wrist with was a box-type purse, but I'm pretty sure I could do it with this purse if I needed to.
Pix - Jan 10, 2005 2:59:31 pm PST #4555 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
And under the car, as you approach it.
This too. I didn't post it originally because I didn't want to sound (more) paranoid.
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2005 2:59:35 pm PST #4556 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And under the car, as you approach it.
You know, if I was watching a woman approaching her car, and trying do work out when to jump her -- this might be when. How do you do this without compromising your balance and increasing your dead space?
Pix - Jan 10, 2005 3:00:59 pm PST #4557 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
I just do it from a distance.
sarameg - Jan 10, 2005 3:01:36 pm PST #4558 of 10002
check your back seat and floor before you get into your car.
I think I learned that from spy or horror flicks. Or those gawdawful urban legends.
And lock your doors as soon as you get in.
Steph L. - Jan 10, 2005 3:01:43 pm PST #4559 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And under the car, as you approach it.
You know, if I was watching a woman approaching her car, and trying do work out when to jump her -- this might be when. How do you do this without compromising your balance and increasing your dead space?
My weird little Tardis car sits up higher off the ground than other compact cars and, actually, most sedans. So I don't have to do contortions; just eyeball it carefully.
Beverly - Jan 10, 2005 3:02:46 pm PST #4560 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
And under the car, as you approach it.
This too. I didn't post it originally because I didn't want to sound (more) paranoid.
Steph and Kristin are me.
If I can get a long view of the car as I approach, I do it that way. I'm not stopping to bend down and look. My car's low to the ground anyway. Anybody under there will lose skin when I leave. Also, my car has good glass area, and I can sweep the backseat and floor with a glance as I unlock and get in. No extra time, no loitering, no hesitating.
Emily - Jan 10, 2005 3:03:25 pm PST #4561 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
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