Adventure Time!

[Madame Adequate]

Also, I suppose it does depend on the city. I don't think I'd feel safe in even Washington DC or Baltimore during the day alone, because sorry, but the bums there and any city approaching the South that I've been to are literally insane and will follow you and yell at you. NYC bums are tame.

I have this terrible and most likely 100% accurate feeling that you've never been to either of those two cities.

You know what they say. Don't assume. It makes an ASS of U and ME.

The countryside can be pretty scary at times, but so can the city. Either one is probably just as likely to have someone pop out and rape and kill the out of you. SWEET DREAMS RYE

Yeah but this isn't actually about what is statistically more likely to be harmful (Because if it was her greatest fear ought to be me). It's about where she FEELS safe or endangered. She didn't say cities were safe as a rule and rural areas were dangerous as a rule. On account of her having an IQ higher than single digits, she's well aware that both places can be dangerous.

Jesus. People need to gain some basic literacy skills around these parts, you're all acting like she's some spiteful creature who is just out to portray rural folks badly or something, when she actually said this terrible prejudice stereotype, so she's pretty well aware that just a blanket statement is unreasonable. Also yeah I can vouch for the fact that the road we were walking was pretty unsettling, and anyone with balls lesser than my iron watermelons would have been bricking it. It was dark, narrow, surrounded by creepy looking woods, and 90% of the way was not lighted, so unless a car was driving along you had all the light of the moon behind the clouds to see around you, ie. 20 feet.

Also someone needs to update me with the memo where fear is a rational response to, well, anything. Fear is useful in exactly zero practical situations. I didn't feel the same fear she did, but she was scared out of her wits, so yeah basically, some empathy and common sense would go down a treat in this here thread. As noted, she's well aware her feelings were not rational, but she included it to explain why it was so freaking scary to her. If she just said 'It was a little dark and there was some trees" it wouldn't exactly explain why it was one of the most terrifying experiences of her life.

ONTOPIC:

The scariest place I have ever been in my life is the Customs and Immigration section of an international airport. In another example of irrational fear, it's abjectly terrifying for no real reason. But the fear itself makes me seem suspicious (Sweating, shaking, unfocused on the matter at hand, extreme nervousness, etc.) and I often get dragged through an hour of secondary screening.

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