I might well have called home from the car so that the door would be open when I got there. Whether your fear was *fair* or not is irrelevant. I know I've explained to Rob that if he's walking behind a woman on the street late at night, it may well be a lot less scary for her if he crosses the road and walks farther away from her, and he was surprised by that and has been careful to cross away from lone women since then. He doesn't want to contribute to anyone's feeling of fear, even if he's not a potential attacker.