simont | (no subject)

After the usual geek-pub-trip last night, I walked home on my own.

That doesn't sound like much of an achievement, but it's the first time I've felt psychologically capable of it since getting mugged last month. In the intervening four weeks I've either walked from the pub to a nearby taxi rank, or walked to the post-pub gathering with a large group of geeks and then phoned a taxi from there, because I didn't want to walk home alone.

Now I'm back at work, going to the post-pub gathering is no longer a sensible option (because I tend to need sleep by then), so I'm running out of options. I suppose I could still have got a taxi, but getting a taxi home from the pub five weeks in succession costs me as much as I lost in the mugging itself - so it seemed to me that even in purely financial terms, taking the risk was a better bet!

So I decided enough was enough, and walked home, although taking care to avoid the danger spot where I was acquired as a target. I'm moderately pleased with myself for that. :-)

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Hey cool, I'm really pleased to hear that. I hope you begin to feel more confident about it soon!

This is important. I had much the same after my little run-in outside the Q last year. It took a while, but I've calmed down about strangers on the street now. It wouldn't have done to end up permanently stressed about it.

I think more than moderate pleasure is in order. Well done.

My house and car were vandalised (broken windows, etc) as part of a mini-campaign of nastiness against me a few months ago. I still look over my shoulder as I get out of my car on my driveway in my street every single time I park at my house... waiting for something bad to happen.

It's no longer my home. Just my house.

So for you to have moved on a stage in your own 'dealing with it' is very, very good. Virtual back-patting is called for...

Regards,
Denny

*hugs* cool!

I really do think you should consider getting a bike, though - it's the only convenient, booze-friendly and at least reasonably rapid method of transport in this town..