same here hippie, i learned in prison, it pays to have a watchful eye to your surroundings. you are correct about softer targets, i see people with earbuds in, in a bubble. they let folks walk up behind them, around them. once a person gets within 20 feet of you, you would have to be on point to be able to have time to defend yourself in case of attack. i keep a buffer whenever i can. i've had folks come up to my truck window and gets scared when they saw i was unsheathing a fixed blade knife, getting ready to get wild if they was so inclined... maybe paranoid, but i know what kind of hateful people are around me..