Coffee and Paranoia
It’s not like he was a secret agent or anything. He was never in the military, the CIA, or some secret assassin group. Maybe he just watched too many hitman movies, so he always had to sit with his back to a wall at restaurants. He’d say things like, “I’m not trying to get murdered here,” and, “if you're going to make me sit with my back to the door, then you have to let me know if someones coming up behind me with a knife or gun.” As joking as it was, there was of course some seriousness to it.