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by a-priori 5371 days ago
Maybe I'm overly trusting, but I just ask someone who has line-of-sight, "excuse me, would you mind watching my stuff for a minute?". I figure that the odds of picking the one person who would steal things is very low, and people see it as a gesture of trust. It's sometimes an opening for a conversation when you return, or at least for returning the favour.