Walk with a purpose.
Keep eye contact to a minimum.
Use mirror, reflections and shadows to tell movement without looking directly at it.
Don’t use headphones, you need your senses.
Don’t listen to strangers.
Trust your gut.
In the United States, the most common street name is second Street. That’s because some municipalities have first Street and some municipalities have main Street.
If someone asks you a question your answer is always “no.”
“Do you know the time?” “No”
“Do you want a free bottle of designer perfume?” “No”
“Can I ask you a question?” “No”
“Do you want to help starving children?” “No”
“My name is James, what’s your name?” “No”
There’s no upside to interacting with people on the street. Don’t be polite because they’ll use it against you.
“Do you have drugs?” “No” “Okay you are innocent.” “No” “Want money?” “No” It always works and agree with them
When someone stopped me to ask if they could ask something, I used to say yes because I always thought, maybe they need directions or something. After moving to the city I quickly learned to stop doing that and to either ignore people or to give an excuse and keep on walking. It has happened exactly one time that someone actually needed my help getting somewhere - every other time they just ask for money.
Don’t look tough, look crazy. People don’t bother me in the street. It’s because I dress like a hobo and mutter / silently move my lips talking to myself while walking down the sidewalk. If they do manage to get me to make eye contact, it’s intense enough they wish they hadn’t. A wallet and groping my ass aren’t worth losing an eyeball or testicle to what looks like a tweaker.
If you did that in my town you’d be on the local crime watch group and be called a drug addict and have your local image tarnished
just saying all your thoughts outload is a fantastic way to keep people away from you, also acts as a sort of…humility check for yourself and as a socrates check for everyone else
If someone asks you where you’re from say “nowhere”
I normally say I’m from Pain-Town and offer to give them a tour if they keep being nosey
“brass city” as you spit near their shoes is good too!
Don’t put a climbing rope on asphalt the oils will mess it up.
I remember hearing about this, so I tend to avoid yardsaling my climbing gear all over the parking lot. But at the same time, I don’t really worry about it. If leaving nylon on asphalt actually caused a strength reduction to the point where the gear would fail, we’d hear about a lot more climbing deaths due to snapped ropes - which we don’t.
The don’t survive to tell the tale.
I assume this is a joke, but people don’t just die and disappear off the face of the earth. When someone dies in a climbing accident, people find out, and the death is documented in climbing accident journals.
Maybe Big Rope is silencing people.
That’s the good shit.
If you really need a pee and can’t somewhere to go, put your hand in a bowl of warm water.
If your arm falls asleep, put water on it it’ll wake it up
