Since leaving New York Mark and I have noticed a few things about ourselves. Out of many one we noticed recently is our heightened suspicion of those around us. Saturday night Mark was walking home from the church building (we live about 5 blocks away) and he grew more and more suspicious of some guy walking behind him with a grocery bag. He was convinced that the guy was going to mug him and take his electronics and put them in the grocery bag with all the other electronic devices he had taken. Mark got himself all worked up until it hit him that the guy was probably just walking home from the grocery store (there are 3 within those 5 blocks).
When he got home and told me about it I totally understood what he was feeling. There is something about walking alone down the street that makes a person really pay attention to anything that goes on around you. In New York you do that constantly. An empty street most likely meant that you were going to get mugged. Here people just don't walk around as much.
It's just one more thing we have to get use to.
Not a terrible thing to have to get used to. Bites to deal with it though.
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