I think I've written about this before---but the guy who cleaned our carpets was really interested in backpacking, and when he saw our equipment, he had a ton of questions.

The main one being: what kind of sidearm did we carry.

We don't.

And we asked him what kind of sidearm he carried when he worked in the various towns and cities in our area.

He doesn't

So somehow he was far more worried about meeting someone in the High Sierra than on a side street in Vallejo.

And my fears run the other way.