Today we had just left our car to wait in the street for a guy who wanted to inspect and perhaps buy the car, when we suddenly found ourselves in a very dangerous situation, simply because of our clothes. ( Jan and I, both of us, wore some green singlets,  I  had put my new hat on and both of us wore sunglasses).  A group of 8 guys came approaching us and asked us whether we’d got any problems. First of all we thought they wanted to help us and we said „no thanks, we don’t have any problems, don’t worry“. But one of them, the biggest, became aggressive in his voice and wanted to know, whether it was us, who had chased one of his gang members with our green car last night. (Bad luck, we were standing in front of our car, and our car was green),  but we hadn’t been out at all, yesterday night, it was a misunderstanding. First of all I tried to tell those guys, that everything was a misunderstanding, that they took us for somebody else, but they didn’t believe us, and because both of us were wearing  green singlets, probably exactly as the guys they were looking for,  we really  looked like gang-members  ourselves :/ I hated myself for having bought this stupid hat, and we got really scared, when one of them touched his pants and we could see, that he had a gun in his pocket. 🙁 The same idea struck Jan and me: run away. But we couldn’t, there was no chance. So we stood still and neither said anything anymore. Some of the guys went away,probably looking for other possible members of a rival gang, searching in some gardens and stuff. I felt like a figure in a computer game, where gang- fightings are as normal as eating, but this was no game, this was real, and we got caught up in this damned threatening situation. After half an hour (which felt like two hours being scared to death) suddenly the police appeared and the guys did a bunk.  Still under kind of shock, Jan and I drove home to Paul’s flat  (hadn’t sold our car, the potential buyer had turned away when the gang appeared) :/ and we can only hope never to get involved in such a dangerous and frightening situation again. :/