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hdwhit · February 14, 2018, 01:59 PM

I am glad everything worked out well.

We have to strike a balance between going around expecting that through every door we will encounter a life-and-death situation and allowing the fact we don't encounter those life-and-death situations all the time to create complacency. In trying to strike that balance, we will occasionally call it wrong.

A guy waiting nervously in an idling car might be waiting on an accomplice or he might be waiting for someone to come back out with a can of infant formula. Either way the driver is likely to have a similar look of urgency and desperation and unless we're clairvoyant we're not going to always know.

February 14, 2018, 01:59 PM	#15
hdwhit Senior Member Join Date: June 22, 2017 Posts: 1,011	I am glad everything worked out well. We have to strike a balance between going around expecting that through every door we will encounter a life-and-death situation and allowing the fact we don't encounter those life-and-death situations all the time to create complacency. In trying to strike that balance, we will occasionally call it wrong. A guy waiting nervously in an idling car might be waiting on an accomplice or he might be waiting for someone to come back out with a can of infant formula. Either way the driver is likely to have a similar look of urgency and desperation and unless we're clairvoyant we're not going to always know.