Twice in the past week I have been approached by men totally unseen by me until trapped in my car, with the door not quite shut. First they say they aren't dangerous, then they ask for money for one reason or another. I'm sure the first guy was just a sad case, a poor homeless guy who needed change (that's all he wanted, fifty cents) but the fact that it happened again - though the dude used a different line this time ("out of gas") - makes me think it's the new racket. I heard a friend of a friend talking about having been mugged with this tact a few weeks ago, so maybe I'm on my guard. Anyway, I've never been mugged or anything like that, thus I'm perhaps less on guard than I thought I should be.

It bothers me that someone can approach me like that without my notice until (what would be) too late. And here I thought I was an international assassin waiting to happen.