I can see why you miss that place, they made you feel at home there. ![Hug :hug:](http://www.intensitysquared.com/Smileys/default/hug.gif)
It was a fun lil place with lots of personality
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we used to sneak down to the bathrooms there, and roll joints. The staff would ask us what we were up to, but we wouldn't reveal
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We'd then sneak out behind, and puff it up. Later we were told a McDonalds worker right across the alley would regularily watch us, and sigh with longing to join in
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Ah! At the same cafeteria I also did my first (and only) pickpocket attempt
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Just a test of the theory! I did it the easy way, and snuck the wallet from the jacket of a friend of mine, but it was indeed remarkable how tunnel-visioned he was, once engaged in conversation
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You are so alert of yourself, and you then project that onto others "I'm alert, so they're alert" but countless experiments show that when people focus, you can _litterally_ walk elephants past them and they won't notice. Distraction is so deceptively easy! Also - clothes don't have nerves! You may think they're absolutely gonna notice cus it's "their body", and whenever you rumage around your own pockets - you are totally aware - and again, project "I can feel my hand in my own pocket. Surely someone else would feel my hand in their pocket." but they won't, cus THEIR hand, and their mind, is elsewhere!
It is... dangerously easy.. in reality.. to pickpocket someone
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So, took his wallet, relaxed, we left (here it's common to pay at the counter, not wait for the check), an hour later he suddenly stopped, and begun to frantically pat his pockets
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I feigned worry, and dragged it out, we ran back to the cafe, we harassed the staff, and we checked every corner :'D
After we got outside, and his hope was lost, I returned the wallet to him :] He was not amused :] I was :]