How fateful? Calculating Almost-met Encounters

Ha, I think the same, Leslie. Everything we do is recorded or captured in some fashion. I still try to avoid such detection wherever possible (disable location, shields up, and so forth) but I know it's useless in the long run. We were warned about and resisted the surveillance state until we manifested it ourselves over concern for future threats, real and imagined. Truth be told, we are all in the clutches of state-accessible data capture.

Very true, Nancy. I have lived in a lot of different places, large and small, and find most people are creatures of habit when it comes to routes taken and timeframes met that are necessary to carry on with life. Knowing this, I purposely take different streets, come and go at different hours of the day, and shop and try services in different locations, just to see what and who I'm missing. I'm fortunate because I work independently now, but even when I had 6AM to 8PM jobs, I tried to find new ways of moving about. When I lived in Southern California, this was typically out of pure necessity, lol.