If you can at all help it, never walk alone at night. If you must, take a solid, quick route, stay alert, and do whatever you can to mitigate risk. Feel like you are being followed? Cross the street. Go someplace public.
If you can at all help it, never walk alone at night.
Except, there are many, many times when it can't be helped. And frankly, I refuse to limit where I go and what I do because I am by myself, on the off chance the the boogie man is going to get me.
I've been walking a lone at night since I was a teenager in Milwaukee. I walked alone at night when I was a student at the UW. I imagine I will continue to walk alone at night until I lose the ability to walk, or they stop making night.
All of which I respect. I'm just talking from a statistical point of view - you are significantly less likely to be attacked when accompanied by another person.
I make it a habit to be certain to try to make eye contact with everyone around me when I am in an unfamiliar place. It is a show of confidence and familiarity. And now that I think of it, like you said, being alert of your surroundings.
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Except, there are many, many times when it can't be helped. And frankly, I refuse to limit where I go and what I do because I am by myself, on the off chance the the boogie man is going to get me.
I've been walking a lone at night since I was a teenager in Milwaukee. I walked alone at night when I was a student at the UW. I imagine I will continue to walk alone at night until I lose the ability to walk, or they stop making night.
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