'Never Leave Me'
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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.
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.
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?
I just do it from a distance.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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Yep.
I have to say, though, that most of the major harassment issues I've had have been at social/public gatherings (parties, bars, etc) and have resulted in being felt up, pushed against a wall, and other general nastiness.
The walking-to-car thing is just a habit. The "come to close to me and you get a spiked heel in your eye" thing at bars is a learned behavior.
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.
And this is what makes you our ita.
Me, I try to park under a light. I've never checked the trunk and back seat, although God knows I should. (Is this still an issue if you lock your car?) I keep meaning to take Model Mugging and I really, really should; somebody on my LJ friendslist teaches it.