Muggings

If 'encourageable' - then its a wonder you weren't torn limb from limb.

They happen exactly a week before Christmas when you've only bought one present so far. They take your handbag, which contains your credit card (which you need for present buying), house keys and the shoes you have swapped for a pair of trainers in order to be able to run from people like them. You do not get a chance to run because they dash up behind you and one grabs you and holds you while the other pulls your stuff away from you. Nearly three years later, you can remember the smell of the bloke's fingers which he held over your nose and mouth. Being considerate mugger types, they leave you with the bagful of Tampax you bought because they were 3 for 2 in Sainsbury's. You have no way of getting into your house because it's Friday evening and your housemates are quite sensibly out on the raz. They flog your BT Charge Card to somebody who phones your parents and requests permission to use it to call Albania, leaving the old folks very stressed and unable to get in contact with their dear daughter. Even after all this time, you get extremely frightened walking home on your own. Count yourself lucky, Graham.

A bit down the street, another Asian guy on a bike rides up next to me and mumbles something quietly that sounds a bit like "Are you businessman?". I look bemused and say pardon. "Are you businessman?" (or something) again. So I say no. "Why?" he says. "What?". "Are you businessman?".I keep walking. "Your business mine?" it sounds like the next time. I say no firmly without looking towards him.
"Why?" he says, so I say "I don't understand what you're saying".

I'm not sure what he said next, something ending in "money", like "You have money" or "You give money" or anything really. I just keep walking. Then another guy rides past and I think shit, but then they go off kind of together. Can anyone guess at what he might have been saying?