You walk down the narrow streets, adopting a skulking gait and teeth-baring, feral grin so that would-be muggers might believe you're one of them and leave you alone out of professional courtesy. Everything is going according to plan until suddenly, an out-of-breath man staggers mazily from the shadows and into your path.
"Excuse me, but, but can you direct me to Lee-eye-sester Square?" he pants.
You can:
Say, "That's
LEICESTER SQUARE", you ignorant yank!
Try to
walk
right through him, pretending he doesn't exist.
Say, "Sure, it's
three blocks that way", pointing in a random direction.
Smile, shrug, shake your head, and repeat a few
foreign phrases
you remember from the opera.
You notice that in one hand he holds a painting wrapped in brown paper. His other hand is occupied trying to stop an ugly knife wound to his leg from gushing blood everywhere.