I always brought a friend for safety, but my last solo mall walk taught me to trust my own gut more.

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Yeah baker.thomas, my gut is mostly busy telling me about the questionable food court sushi... not spotting mirroring creeps. It's a solid backup plan unless your only stress is choosing between soft pretzels. My solo mall walk gut feeling was just hunger for Cinnabon. Guess I'll trust it to pick a snack and keep a friend around to point out the guy copying my path to the cookie stand.

baker.thomas1d ago

At Westgate Mall last week, my friend saw a creep tailing us that my gut never noticed. I felt fine, but she pointed out how he mirrored our stops. Relying only on your gut is a gamble because stress or noise can mess with your instincts. A friend adds real time backup that intuition can't match. Skipping that backup for a solo feel good moment seems reckless to me.