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To give you a perspective of how alien everything you just said sounds to me, allow me to explain this concept.
We have several restaurants near our college where we students can use our discount cards to eat. When you enter a restaurant, you usually pick up a tray and go to pick your food and wait for cashier to charge you.
Sometimes when I'm with friends, me or somebody go beforehand to find a free table and leave my backpack, phone or maybe jacket/coat on it to let people know it's occupied so we have a place to sit later when we're done waiting in line. Also with a laptop bag but I don't carry it often.
I think it's safe to say we live in slightly different atmospheres.
Both have their plusses and minuses.
Population of Pitomača is 10.5k.
Population of Croatia is 4.3 million.
Population of NYC alone 8.2 million. ~1.6 million in Manhattan.
Population density of NJ... 1,170.64. Population of the town where I live is just under 33k. Nearest large city which is literally 5 minutes away by car, and has some pretty rough areas, is 146k.
Population density of Croatia 196.3.
If I go out for the night in new york (which I used to do a lot, not so much now) I generally speaking bump into at least a few hundred people, and end up in a close vicinity of thousands.
I don't know the vast majority of them. Some are good. Most are ok. Some are not so good. It's those not so good that concern me.
So yes, you can consider me paranoid...