When I first came to the US to study 20 years ago ,my TOUGH 75 year old auntie (who lived in the US since she was 15) took me for a walk in Manhattan.
When we reached the Path train station (she lived in New Jersey) I reached for my wallet to pay for the tickets .
When she saw that I was carrying a wallet she snatched it from my hands took my money out of the purse folded them in a small wad and placed it in my FRONT jeans pocket,than she threw my wallet in the nearest garbage can!
"Nicky she told me this isn't Athens you are living in now, this is New York,no real New Yorker carries a wallet!!!" she told me
I have followed her advice until today & I have never had anything stolen from me...
On the other hand a few years ago my former girlfriend took the car for service and she forgot her keys of our house in the glove comp.
Three days later after a night out we have returned to a practically empty home.....
a month later we got a call from the police that they have cought a former employee of the service station with our belongings