You simply have to carry on with your life.

Fear is actually one of the worst thought-patterns you can allow into your mind.

I was nearly killed in cold blood by some drug-crazed maniac about eight years ago. That put me into 'fear mode'. I have managed to get over that and be comfortable walking around outside again.

From your description, he sounds like a homeless old man, probably an alcoholic or drug addict. Don't worry about (or even think about) him. Get on with *your* life. :)

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Perhaps get a can of mace so that if someone approaches you and is intimidating you, well, you spray them with the mace.

If your life is in danger, that would just be an act of self-defense.

Maybe you should get a book on Chinese, or Japanese, or some other Asian culture's drama and read it and find out. Wouldn't that be smarter than asking random strangers to give you answers that may or may not be correct (and that won't have any sources or footnotes, so you can't even tell whether they are correct)?

Stop being stupid. Learn to do simple research like a grown-up.

Elevators, while being touted as being extremely safe, can fail. The odds of a failure is small, however, the odds go out the window if you are in the elevator when it fails. While they have safety measures to prevent them falling from upper floors to the basement, it is more likely that the elevator might become lodged between floors due to mechanical failure or a power failure and one is trapped in the elevator until rescued.

As far as stairs, the elderly are more afraid of those. Old joints don't work as well as young ones. Also, balance can be effected by age. The elderly are afraid to fall. Especially down stairs because old bones are quick to break and slow to heal. A broken hip on a person over the age of eighty can be a death sentence.

Hope I helped.

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