I have another interesting story to tell you. This really happened to me about a few hours ago. I just got back from having dinner tonight with my colleague at a Japanese restaurant. We had sushi and shashimi for dinner. As we were were walking back towards our cars, we had to walk through a section of a deserted neighborhood that had abandoned buildings in a darken area with just a light emitted by a single lamppost. We saw three thugs hanging next to the lamppost and they looked like they were up to no good. My friend and I didn't want to turn back because that would given hint to the three young thugs that we know what was going to happen, so the both of us decided to walk passed the three thugs. I grabbed a broken leg of a chair that was discarded in a heap of trash, and held on tightly with my hand in case I have to react quickly if the thugs were going to pull out a knife on us. My colleague grabbed something from the heap of trash too. And then we walked slowly towards the three thugs. I had my eyes staring at each of the thug letting them know that I was ready for some action tonight. My friend and I passed the first shirtless thug, and he stared right back at us with one hand inside his left pocket and the other hand holding a cigarette. He didn't do anything to us, but I was certain he had his hand on a weapon in his pocket. And then as we approached the second two, the first thug followed us. I was getting ready to spring into action and defend myself if these guys planned to mug us. I wanted to make sure they knew we werel not going to be easy targets for the mugging. When the other two thugs saw that I was holding a table leg ready to pound on them, the second two thugs walked away from us. The thugs knew we were not going to be easy victims to a robbery, so they let us passed. I was so relieved that we did not get mug. I tossed the table leg away when I got to my car. My colleague tossed something away too. I asked my colleague what he was using as a weapon. He looked at me and said, the first thing he saw in the same trash heap where I found a discarded chair, he grabbed a discarded soup spoon. What! Was he going to fight the three thugs with a discarded soup spoon? LOL...,