How often you think about you might get randomly jumped, stabbed, or shot?
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I ride the DC Metro in to work. I typically ride in the last car of the 8-car trains (when they're available), which I prefer because usually no one's on it...but the flipside is you never know if someone who's mentally ill, strung out, or just looking for trouble hops on, and it's just you and them.
And Metro's had some serious incidents over the years, including just a couple months ago when a Metro employee was murdered inside one of the stations (one that I sometimes disembark at, depending on how far I feel like walking), totally random. And a tourist(?) was stabbed to death on the Red Line on July 4th some years ago. Metro crime in general has really picked up lately.
So yeah, I worry or at least think about it, but don't usually dwell on it. My attitude over the years has basically become Que sera, sera.
I do carry pepper spray and have a stealth tactical keychain. I'd rather not be caught slippin' if, heaven forbid, anything ever went really sideways. Hopefully I'd be quick enough to react though - I ain't getting any younger...
And Metro's had some serious incidents over the years, including just a couple months ago when a Metro employee was murdered inside one of the stations (one that I sometimes disembark at, depending on how far I feel like walking), totally random. And a tourist(?) was stabbed to death on the Red Line on July 4th some years ago. Metro crime in general has really picked up lately.
So yeah, I worry or at least think about it, but don't usually dwell on it. My attitude over the years has basically become Que sera, sera.
I do carry pepper spray and have a stealth tactical keychain. I'd rather not be caught slippin' if, heaven forbid, anything ever went really sideways. Hopefully I'd be quick enough to react though - I ain't getting any younger...
Nothing to be scared of, since you can be touched anywhere, anytime.
I've been at peace with myself for a-long time, never even thought id see it past 21.
I'm just living life righteous, when that day comes im ready.
I'll never go out without a fight
I've been at peace with myself for a-long time, never even thought id see it past 21.
I'm just living life righteous, when that day comes im ready.
I'll never go out without a fight
My biggest fear as a paramedic is going to a shooting scene and someone spins the block or it’s multiple shooters and we get caught in the crossfire
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I also have a fear of someone spiking my drink with something nefarious too and I actually have a legit reason for that.
Story time: I was sophomore in HS and had Drivers Ed class and on days when we weren’t learning how to drive, we were teacher aids. I picked the science teacher who was also the baseball coach. Anyway, there were a bunch of kids in that class that I knew or somewhat knew and one day I left my water bottle unattended while I helped the coach with something. I came back later and the day went on and I luckily never drank anymore of it. The next day two idiots in the class turned to me and asked, “Did you have the shyts yesterday? We put eye drops in your water as a prank.
” I told them no and l was silently relieved I didn’t drink any of it.
A decade later I was reading through an article about myths and one just so happened to be about for spiking drinks with eye drops. Apparently the myth is it will just give you a bad stomach ache and send you to the bathroom when in reality it could hospitalize or downright kill someone.
Those morons could have killed me. I guess that’s why today one of those idiots isn’t even out of his 30’s yet and he’s already a grandfather and as for the other guy, he always appeared sauced/pilled/coked out of his mind in pictures that I saw of him on Facebook and he’s got a bunch of domestic charges against him. I actually unfriended him because he started saying a lot of out of pocket
shyt.
So anyway, I’m now iffy about someone possibly spiking my drink because you never know when a dumbfukk or two will try to pull a prank on you and it could end up killing you.
Story time: I was sophomore in HS and had Drivers Ed class and on days when we weren’t learning how to drive, we were teacher aids. I picked the science teacher who was also the baseball coach. Anyway, there were a bunch of kids in that class that I knew or somewhat knew and one day I left my water bottle unattended while I helped the coach with something. I came back later and the day went on and I luckily never drank anymore of it. The next day two idiots in the class turned to me and asked, “Did you have the shyts yesterday? We put eye drops in your water as a prank.
” I told them no and l was silently relieved I didn’t drink any of it. A decade later I was reading through an article about myths and one just so happened to be about for spiking drinks with eye drops. Apparently the myth is it will just give you a bad stomach ache and send you to the bathroom when in reality it could hospitalize or downright kill someone.
Those morons could have killed me. I guess that’s why today one of those idiots isn’t even out of his 30’s yet and he’s already a grandfather and as for the other guy, he always appeared sauced/pilled/coked out of his mind in pictures that I saw of him on Facebook and he’s got a bunch of domestic charges against him. I actually unfriended him because he started saying a lot of out of pocket
shyt.So anyway, I’m now iffy about someone possibly spiking my drink because you never know when a dumbfukk or two will try to pull a prank on you and it could end up killing you.