Has anything bad happened to you when out?

It was at night and I was out shopping for heels and when I left the store, I was followed through the parking by two guys in a van. They followed me from the store to my car. Then waited for me to get in and drive off. They did not follow but I was very scared.

Another time, I was in Orlando and very lost. I stopped to ask for direction and asked this woman just outside the store. She told me to stay away from her and told the sales clerk, whom followed me back to my car and tried to stop me from leaving the parking lot.

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Originally Posted by Nicki B

But that's where your logic falls down - because the risk cannot be the same every time, unlike the roll of the dice - each situation/encounter is different - it depends on where you go and who you might meet?

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Hold up. Your stretching the analogy without stretching the rest of the paramaters accordingly.

Going to different places is effectively the same as playing different gambling games. If you change where you go of course you change the odds just like the odds are different between normal (non-casino) Blackjack which is like going to an upper-middle-class shopping mall in a very open-minded area with 5 other people compared to going for a walk alone at 3 AM in the bad part of town in your raciest apparrel.

However if you go to the same place each time your odds are the same. Who you may meet is variable... but thats the element of chance so of course that changes. Thats not the chances changing, it's the results of the chance, the variable outcome, the roll of the dice.

And tragically what country you live in will effect this.
:hugs: Sosoft.

Thus far the odds of harm for those in western developed democracies are very small indeed.

If it drops much lower we should be more afraid of an Asteroid destroying all higher lifeforms on the planet within our lifetimes.

Batty, I'm not stretching any analogy - simply saying you're comparing events which cannot be compared.

A dice can only fall in one of six ways, wherever it is thrown, whoever throws it - the probability therefore stays the same each time, however often it is thrown. However every time you go out the potential for trouble is different, because there are so many variables.

And - don't you get bored, going to the same place over and over again? I would.. ;)

Got pulled over by a cop, the second time out, over three yrs ago. He was professional, non hostile.