A Night to Remember...

There is a God! Or at least Knights in Shining Armour...

I can laugh about it now, but really the night could have turned out very, very badly...

So I'm glad that this story has a happy ending :)

So to start from the beginning...

Craving fresh air, I decided to crash the night at G's by the beach...the only problem is as I was half way there I realised...shite! I think I left my balcony door open...recalling the time I lived 5 levels up and had Spidermen thieves take off with my TV and VCR and remembering that just this week some thugs had broken into my neighbours garage just to steal his bike I thought hmmm...leaving my balcony door open? I'm So asking for it!

So I decided to go home...just to clarify it was not so much out of concern for my personal possessions getting nicked- my MAJOR concern was actually contemplating the loss of data on my laptop- specifically the 1.5 years of HARD SLOG in my study files which I will always need for future reference! LOL I am such a nerd!

So anyway after a late dinner, a bit of a yarn and some point location practice I got the last bus home figuring...Saturday night lots of people about should be okay right and besides I'll just get a cab for the bit to my door. WELL. Whaddya know? I spent about 5 minutes impatiently waiting in the freezing cold and then thought eh what the heck it's only a 10 minute walk I'll get home way before this cab queue will ever progress...

SO. Hmmm...it's been a loooooong while since I was right in the heart of the big city by myself reasonably late on a Saturday night...what really struck me was the incredible LACK of Decent people with any Class around(and how refreshing my friends are by comparison)...and wondering sheesh am I just a snob? then concluding, "No, Definitely not!!!"

The chicks all seemed to be wearing butt hugging skirts right up their ass and they actually had the bimbo nerve to complain about how cold it was(!) and the men were yelling at me out of cars and the ones propositioning me on the street stunk of booze and cigarette smoke :P

urgh...EXACTLY why I'm antisocial and reserve the right to STAY this way! I'd rather stay home by myself than have to put up with that kinda crap every time I go out!

In any case just as I thought the worst was over, another loser propositioned me but this time he wouldn't go away and realising this I was like oh shit what to do? I turned around and started walking from where I had come, the guy kept following me and was getting aggro that I was walking away...looking across the road I chanced to spot a hefty looking security guard so I decided that was my best option. I heard the loser guy hit the car at the junction and swear(sorry to whoever's car got dented cos of me)...then I apologised and explained to the security guard:

"Sorry I'm following you cos that guy was harrassing me and wouldn't leave me alone"...and how I was being stupid by not waiting for a cab and that I had forgotten the dangers of big city life after being in the country the past year...

He immediately offered to walk me home knowing full well what a target I was considering full grown men get bashed up!

So anyway we got chatting for the rest of the walk home and it turns out he was the very same security guard who was on the scene when my neighbour got bashed up a year ago: What a coincidence!

And what I learnt is that in Australia the security guards are not allowed by law to lay hands on thugs- they have to call the police. Being Leb, he said he'd already taken the law into his own hands and bashed about 6 guys up "on the job" but got off on "self-defence" LOL. He also told me that in Lebanon- by law you're allowed to KILL anybody if they try to break into your place etc-it's very much a civilian law where people take justice into their own hands...he told me a funny story of how he knows people that applied this "civilian justice" here to a would be thief...they got a spear fishing gun and shot the would be thief right through the leg! And not only that the guy also had to go to gaol!! LOL exactly like that saying, Crime doesn't pay!

Anyway...it was definitely a memorable night...it's so sad how dangerous the city has become- that I can't go out without requiring the services of a personal bodyguard and escort service right to my door every time! In any case, at least now I know where there is a good security headquarters with round the clock guards near my place so I know where to go if I ever get caught out again...but I think I learnt my lesson enough this time round to not be so blase and daring about my personal safety ever again!!