Care to share your experience. I'm sure we'd love to hear what happened to you.
I will... but it’s a bit lengthy...
I was attending a large IT convention in Manhattan. I was on the very back row of a commuter bus taking us from Javitz to our hotel. The bus pulls over to the right in the middle of the block, but the hotel is on the left.
Like ducks parading to the water, ever single passenger got off the bus, walked in front of the bus (my mom always told me not to do this), across the street, and into the hotel.
I was the very last one off the bus. Right as I cleared the side of the front of the bus to walk across the street, just as some 80 people had done before me, I feel a sharp jerk on my backpack which is slung across one shoulder. The jerk is hard enough to spin me around to the right, away from the bus, and for the backpack to slip down to my hand.
My first thought is.. “great, typical NYC... I’m getting my backpack snatched”
As I spin around, I feel something bang hard into my left elbow, which has swung around now, clearing the side of the bus, and it spins me 720 degrees on the balls of my feet. I hear people scream, and tires squealing.
My elbow was struck by the rear-view mirror of a taxicab speeding down the street. Had I stepped out, I would have been flattened.
I am uninjured, and still more worried about the thief, so I look around.
5 PM in Manhattan. People jammed elbow to elbow on either side of the street in both directions, waiting to cross on my block.
The entire sidewalk I am standing on is completely empty of pedestrians. Completely empty, red light to red light.
It is SO obvious that I am meant to know that no one was there.
The other side of the story is that the taxicab driver jumped out of the cab, ran over, adjusted his mirror, and sped off again.