@gungasnake,
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Martin doing a sort of a slow walk in the rain and looking at and into houses had something to do with it. Most people try to get out of the rain as quickly as possible.
It was only raining on and off, which is one reason he probably had that hoodie on--because of the rain--and he was talking on the phone and not in a hurry to get home until the NBA basketball game started on TV at 7:30.
And he didn't live there, he was a guest in someone else's house, and he might not have felt all that comfortable just sitting around in that house, so he was walking around outside until the basketball game started. And his unfamiliarity with that complex, which he had only visited a handful of times, and always with his father, might explain why he was just looking around. It is also possible that, in his attempts to evade Zimmerman, who was following him, that he might have become somewhat lost or disoriented about how to get back to where he was staying--it was very dark, and all those houses look alike.
If Zimmerman thought there was something odd about Martin's behavior, when he first spotted him, why didn't he drive over and ask him if he was lost, or ill, or needed assistance? Why did he jump to the conclusion Martin's behavior seemed criminally suspicious?
