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I'm not completely certain, but I think three teenagers were briefly contemplating mugging me and Rhi tonight.
Emphasis on *briefly*.
We keep a bowl near the front door, and every night I dump the coins from my pockets into it. Since it had filled up tonight, we decided to take the coins up the hill to the store where they have one of those machines that totals it for you (for a small percentage) and lets you convert it into bills.
I took the voucher from the machine up to the service desk to get my money (just over $100). Once the lady had given me the bills, I went to put them into my wallet, stepping aside from the window as I did so, to let the person behind me talk to the lady at the desk.
Doing this placed me in view of the front doors, and I saw three teenage boys come in, look around, and stop for a moment by the same change machine I had just used -- although they didn't put anything into it. In the time it took me to get out my wallet, put the money into it, and return my wallet to my pocket, they had gone back outside and were standing outside the doors -- two on the left side of the doors, on one the right. They were not acting particularly aggressive or anything, but there positioning was such that if they decided to jump someone coming out of the store, they could.
Nothing happened... but I'm not sure if that's because they noticed what I was wearing (my old Kung Fu school jacket), or if they realized that Rhi and I definitely do *not* carry ourselves like victims, or if it was because one of them got treated to a look my students used to refer to as "The Sleepy Eyes of Death".
Now I'm mostly curious whether they'd actually intended anything, or if their motions were just coincidence.
Emphasis on *briefly*.
We keep a bowl near the front door, and every night I dump the coins from my pockets into it. Since it had filled up tonight, we decided to take the coins up the hill to the store where they have one of those machines that totals it for you (for a small percentage) and lets you convert it into bills.
I took the voucher from the machine up to the service desk to get my money (just over $100). Once the lady had given me the bills, I went to put them into my wallet, stepping aside from the window as I did so, to let the person behind me talk to the lady at the desk.
Doing this placed me in view of the front doors, and I saw three teenage boys come in, look around, and stop for a moment by the same change machine I had just used -- although they didn't put anything into it. In the time it took me to get out my wallet, put the money into it, and return my wallet to my pocket, they had gone back outside and were standing outside the doors -- two on the left side of the doors, on one the right. They were not acting particularly aggressive or anything, but there positioning was such that if they decided to jump someone coming out of the store, they could.
Nothing happened... but I'm not sure if that's because they noticed what I was wearing (my old Kung Fu school jacket), or if they realized that Rhi and I definitely do *not* carry ourselves like victims, or if it was because one of them got treated to a look my students used to refer to as "The Sleepy Eyes of Death"
Now I'm mostly curious whether they'd actually intended anything, or if their motions were just coincidence.
