True. The dark street analogy is courtesy of Jesse Jackson, BTW, I cannot take credit for it (he made the "gangbangers" simply "black youths" so I made mine less ambiguous).
When I get on a plane with my family, I absolutely have a situational awareness I lacked entirely before 9-11 (like on 8-11-2001 when I was flying into JFK from Casablanca and helped a young guy fill out his immigration form and he didn't even know what college he was going to though that was his claim. Anyway, I look around, and have a rough plan just in case (including likely guys to get to help). I see other guys doing the same, there is usually a sort of guy nod when we realize what we're doing, lol.
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