Dark Unknown Streets

Walk with a cigarette in your lips and glare through the smoke like cold wind burns your eyes. When it's cold out, bring your collar over your neck and hunch your shoulders, hands deep in pockets, smoke streams behind. Never look cold, but look like you are hiding something among your torso. Wear your dead Great Uncle's old Fedora on a cold night, never when it is warm; and this can never be replaced with a new one - no trends allowed walking dark empty streets alone. Stride easy, never look sluggish. If tired, appear crazed from too many long nights kept awake by using of some kind. Hold your cigarette in your teeth, roll it with your tongue, grab it infrequently. Don't turn your head, keep your ears behind you, and look at others quickly with piercing glances moving only your eyes. Even when lost, go, any direction, as if you have lived there forever, long before anyone else. If anyone approaches you, speak friendly and briefly. If approached cruelly, act crazed. This is how you will survive.