Save your time and IGNORE the riffraff.
G, why waste your time on this? If others are dumb enough to follow this so called "advice" then just let them. I'm kinda curious where I'm supposed to lock up my valuables as my rides don't have a trunk. Maybe I should leave everything on my tire along with my keys?
BTW, it's PATTING your pockets to verify your stuff is safe and NOT "padding". To sum it up, I just love that a 6 post newbie is telling us what to do. LOL.
[QUOTE=Gansett; 1587102]Paragraphs and not chapters huh?
You keep making deals thru the window and let us know how that works out for you. Now I need to buy a piece of krap car too?[/QUOTE]
SW And Your Decison Making Response, It
Eighteen years of doing it this way, and zero pinches, arrests, close calls, or robs, or SW's going mental in my ride. Upsells won't work because they don't know how much money I have on me and I never reveal that, I just pass if I'm not interested, or if it's more than I have. I say "too much", not tell her what I have. Or if I just don't want to pay them that much, because she doesn't turn me on or I just don't feel she is worth it (which is usually the case,) I drop them off. Most of the time, they change their mind while heading back though, and settle for my offer!
The selectivity by asking a few questions, getting a good look at them, and feeling them out per se, on a side street with the window down slightly and doors locked, is the reason why I've been successful. I don't just let anyone in, they have to seem sane and safe to me, and if not, I drive off. I'm not making a deal while talking to them through the window, I'm merely having a small talk type test and making a judgement in 30 to 45 seconds or so, and doing this has kept me safe all these years, because I know how many that were impaired or seemed like trouble, that I passed on and drove off.
Leo not once ever snuck up on me doing this, so try it and you will see it works and is quick, and as long as it's a wide enough side street and somewhat dark, you can get away with it and save yourself a lot of agony and cash too.
Also, I only do night dates so the patting of my pocket while she is busy with the act is completely safe and not a signal, and unseen by her. My post was for the newer mongers anyway, not the dinosaurs, who interestingly were the ones to oppose it and criticize, which is okay and doesn't rattle me. I know what I know and that's all there is to it, and I merely wanted to help some of the lesser experienced folks, particularly a couple of people who posted some horror storries on the Worcester thread recently and this one. And someone having a low post count means nothing, they could well be the most experienced person on this or that subject, and nobody would know difference. Don't go by that, go by the quality of the advice.