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Sometimes the right thing to do is to walk away.

"You know, this isn`t the best place for unescorted women to come rolling up," said the man. "We`re not unescorted," I said, sensing the test in his words and refusing to play along. "We have Ben -- he`s in the backseat, where you can`t see him so well, but he`s there -- and we have a lot of guns. I find a semiautomatic makes an excellent chaperone under virtually any circumstances we`re likely to find ourselves in."

A bright smile on a pretty face can disarm just about anybody. It`s not a sex thing, at least most of the time. It`s just that humans are inclined to be kind to pretty things, and we read smiles as friendly, deserving of our attention and acceptance. It`s harder to shoot somebody who`s smiling.