Hiding in plain sight

Sometimes when something is happening right under your nose, it becomes

even harder to notice than if it were happening in secret.
Hiding in plain sight basically means so obvious that you don't see it, or pay
any attention to it, or it doesn't even cross your mind.
Examples
Imagine if someone was spreading gossip about you and you were confiding in
your best friend, but you had no idea who it could be spreading gossip about
you. Then you find out that it's your best friend who is spreading the gossip.
If a spy is on the run and is being chased the best thing to do is to find a crowd
and then hide in that crowd by acting like everybody else in the crowd.If the
spy finds a bush to hide behind that will look suspicious and he will be found
but if he is just wandering around in a large crowd he will be very hard to find.
He will be hiding in plain sight.
Act 1 there is something about marry

Mary Archbold One-armed woman. She was born that way. Pilates
teacher

There are the basics. She always wears long sleeves to cover her
prosthesis, so only the hand shows.

When she goes out on auditions for choreographers, she does big
gestures and expressions. And it's over so quick, they actually never get
a chance to notice that her wrist doesn't bend and her fingers don't
move. When she needs to demonstrate poses in Pilates class that would
expose the hand and arm and give her away, she just uses one of the
students as a model.

And in every situation, professional and personal. I stand on a certain

side so that they really only see my real arm.

Like at a party, I will not hold a drink in my hand. I will take a sip and put
it back down, because if I meet somebody, they're going to want to
shake my hand.

when some handholder comes at her and they try to take both of her
hands. She try to despite them giving a hug to

At her wedding, because she had a sleeveless gown, she got opera
gloves to conceal her arm. And she actually had them specially made to
be long enough to cover her prosthesis. And then, in the end, she
realized that everybody at the wedding already knew the truth. They
already knew and accepted her, and she didn't wear the gloves.

Act Two. Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear

Anton Disclafani her husband found a wallet on the front steps of our
apartment. It had $300 inside and a license-- Julian Vinegas, which listed
a St. Louis address a street away.

she tried to find this person to give him back his wallet. First she looked
for Julian Vinegas on Facebook and she left some message in his
facebook.

Then she went to Julian's apartment but he was moved to another place

When she got home, she checked Facebook. There was no message from
Julian, but there was a post on his wall about a concert he'd been to the
night before. She was so mad because the guy posted something but he
didnt answers her messages

Her husband told her You're getting obsessed. But I was just getting
started. There were other leads in Julian's wallet she found a receipt from
a record store called Vintage Vinyl, where he bought season six
of Weeds, a very faded student ID from the University of Puget Sound
and another kinds of card.

She called all these numbers but nobody knew who Julian vinegas was

I learned that he hung out with friends a lot. He partied a lot. He liked
music a lot. He didn't seem to particularly care about punctuation. And
though she had so much access to his thoughts she was unable to let
him know that she existed.

And then, Julian posted that he was going to a Raekwon concert at the
Gargoyle. So she planned to go there , she thought. "If he's not there, I'll
turn over the wallet to the police

She found Julian at the concert and she asked Are you Julian Vinegas?".
Before he could even confirm that he was Julian Vinegas, she returned
him his wallet. The guy was surprised and he tried to give her $40, but
she didn't take it . He seemed happy to see his wallet, but not euphoric

They talked for a few minutes Julian told her that he had moved two
blocks away from his last apartment and He said I lost the same wallet
twice before and it always return to me like a boomerang he just wanted

to get rid of that wallet And then she realized that she became obsessed
for nothing.

Act Three. Seven Year Snitch

In the early '90s, the Cali drug cartel controlled 80% of all the cocaine in the
world. It was a $7 billion a year international business. But the cartel collapsed
because one man told everything to the authorities.
Jorge Salcedo is engineer. At the time, he was doing well in Colombia. He ran
an assembly line that made car batteries. He was designing a way to recycle
motor oil.One day in 1989, Jorge was working at his battery factory in Bogota
when he got a visit from an old friend. The guy's name was Mario del Basto.
Mario had recently quit the military, and he had a request for Jorge.
When he got to Cali, Jorge was surprised to find that his meeting was not with
some mid-level guys, but with the cartel's four godfathers. They wanted Jorge
to help them kill him.The reason why they wanted to hire Jorge. While he was in
the Army Reserves, Jorge had come in contact with a group of British
mercenaries.
Jorge was their primary contact in Colombia, and the cartel knew that. So, They
wanted to hire these British mercenaries to kill Escobar.They were planning to
put a bomb in the prison where Pablo Escobar was but the attempt failed when
one of the helicopters carrying the mercenaries crashed into a mountainside.
Then, when a group of Special Forces in Colombia killed Pablo Escobar. Jorge
tried to leave the cartel but they didnt let him to quit.Then, the extradition
became official in Colombia, they asked Jorge to kill cartel chief accountant
Guillermo Pallomari because he was chilean and he could be extradited.
That was a turning point for Jorge he wanted to go to someone, but he didnt
even know on what door to knock. So, he waited for the chance to use a public
phone at a Cali telecommunications building. He dialed the CIA in Virginia.
Jorge told to the agents where the cartels boss was. Miguel was getting
paranoid becasuse one of him friend had been caught- he was so paranoid that
he didn't let his own security chief, Jorge, know which apartment he was
staying in. Jorge knew the building, but nothing more. But Jorge told the agents
that Miguel liked to work very late. They did some nighttime surveillance and
noticed that the lights stayed on in only one apartment.
And after two operatives they could catch him. The first operative failed
because when the cia agents got the Miguel Rodriguez house he was hidden in
one secret compartment in his bathroom and the agent couldnt catch him.
Then Jorge figure out the place where the cartel boss was and in the second

operative the cia agent could catch him .Today, Jorge is in the program for
witness protection here in USA.
Conclusion
For me these people were very smart because they could hide their disabilities
and identities to take advantage of the people with they worked.
If there are people that you don't want to meet you can hide in plain sight.
Some examples can be in the school, work, or if you're walking through a bad
neighborhood