There's hugger-mugger for you.
He sat down next to me, asked me to roll him a cigarette and to "show him the time" (mugger language for "get your phone out").
Areas like Handsworth, in Birmingham, became stigmatised as breeding grounds for "muggers" from their broken, immigrant homes.
And Mr. Giuliani recalls the days when, as he remembers them, a New Yorker couldn't walk up Third Avenue without being on the lookout for muggers, of the blocks of dirty book stores and prostitutes, of public urination and pot-smoking.
It's a strange kind of surveillance, in which the father waits for the mugger to come to him.
'It's the perfect weapon for a mugger because it will put anyone down and they won't know what's hit them,' says one south London villain.
Muggers call for help when their victim collapses.
The areas you move into are almost always rundown and inhabited by students young and old - with the occasional mugger thrown in for good measure.
Bush may not be an intellectual powerhouse, but he has a mugger's savvy for gutting a political opponent, and also has speechwriters who have nailed Kerry's vulnerabilities.
All along, "The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim" yearns to unfurl into a theater of absurdity: on top of the G.P.S. voice with sex appeal, a stranger dies on a plane while listening to Max's story, and a mugger asks him for directions after the mugging.
Use the mugger's wallet for minor expenses.
