“It’s so weird,” I told my sister. “Whenever I go outside at night to turn off the Christmas lights, I feel terrified. I have images of criminals hiding in the bushes, waiting for me. When I lived at the old place, I felt nothing of the kind, even though the area was kind of shady and I even had police officers question me a couple of times about bank robberies in my street.”
“Oh, but this is obvious, ” my sister said. “The area where you live now is a very family-oriented space. And you perceive anything that has to do with family as inherently dangerous.”
My sister is a genius.
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I like your sister’s idea, but there is another explanation.
Most people don’t get scared about noisy spaces. It’s the quiet that fires the imagination. In the city you have lights and cops. In the suburbs, you’re harder to find, but if a criminal finds you, you are more vulnerable.
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Both of these areas were very quiet, though. I didn’t even hear those bank robberies. 🙂
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Suburbia is freakin’ creepy at night. I feel the same way.
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Where on earth did you move, the Cosa Nostra Country Club?
“Death before dishonour, deals during lunch” 🙂
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