Lets assume that this isn’t a bad episode of Magnum PI, you don’t have a sound track of cheesy '70s guitar riffs, and that your car could end up damaged/stolen, you could end up beaten (and for all you know… killed).
Q: Do you go…?
On the one hand you can’t live your life in fear.
On the other, stupidity as a lifestyle isn’t much of a game-plan. Assume that I’m going to post this and that the Poll function could possibly work
Trust your instincts. I wish I had done that when this happened to me in the past. My instincts said don’t go and I ignored them.
Answer: God no don’t go. Being bored is a million times better than being traumatized.
Missed my 40th birthday surprise party because of this. Got to the place my buddy had set it all up and got a “hinky feeling” about the place and situation – so I bailed and went to dinner elsewhere. Found out when I got home and hit the answering machine button. Just as well since I hate surprise parties in general.
You go. Bring a fake thumb drive that will explode when the bad guys plug it into the laptop.
In the meantime, you arrange for Fiona to be the sniper on the roof in the building across the street. Jesse and Sam are the cavalry that break through the wall in a large construction vehicle and come in guns a blazing.
If not, shoot him in the leg in the melee and then interrogate him creatively about who’s behind this ambush. Then save his life before he bleeds out. Now he owes you one.
Yep. Then later “undead Larry” became “really and truly dead Larry”. I was placing my scenario somewhere in the middle of the show.
I always thought Brennan was one of toughest opponents for Mikey. He always seemed to be way ahead in planning. (The less we talk of Ansen, the better.)
In real life, I’d be trapped in a loop like Vizzini: “I sense the set up is a trap. Clearly I cannot go. But, they knew I’d spot the trap, so it clearly cannot be a trap, and the trap is somewhere else. But, they know I’d know the trap was not a trap, so it actually is, so I cannot go to the set up safely. But then…”
I thought the OP was talking about friend innocently introduce you to “X” with the secret hope that you two might find a romantic connection.
Either way, no.
Life isn’t a Hollywood movie and its not a video game, there is no ‘reset’ button, there are enough unavoidable dangers in life without actively inviting them.