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Comments

[rhoda_rants]

Haha--yeah, at night is the worst. But like, even when I look back and think "Wow, that was actually legit dangerous," in some situations--nothing happened. Ever. And in the moment, I never expected it to. Just going places by myself is too usual for me to worry about it.

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[conuly]

Yeah. Once I got it when I was taking some animals to the van to be fixed. The ASPCA van that day was parked at the Jersey Street projects, which - to be fair! - is legitimately a higher crime neighborhood. But I didn't think, and don't think, that a random passerby is particularly at risk at 5am on a Sunday. Everybody there was either out drinking the night before and is now asleep, or they're at church. And the people on that block let their kids run all over, I've seen them as I go by on the bus, so I don't think 3pm, pick-up time, is that much riskier or else they'd make their children stay inside more.

It's not like you open the paper and it says "Another three dead on Jersey Street", you know?

I didn't say all this to the person in question. All I said is that the same people who go "Oooh, Jersey Street!" think that we live in a dangerous neighborhood, and yet neither one of us felt it was so risky we shouldn't be out at dawn waiting for the bus.

The biggest risk on spay/neuter day is that you'll die of boredom. It's a long wait between when you gotta show up to be assured of a spot and when the van arrives!