Desert Lobster
02-11-2004, 13:00
I had just taken a sidetrip to see the Antietam battlefield and was trying to hitch out of Hagerstown. It's a long, steep road back to the trail.
A white van slowly rolls by me. I had pretty much become discouraged at that point and figured I was going to have to walk the miles up the hill. I walk towards the van and get in. He doesn't say "hi" and seems a little odd. I sit down and he says that I can put my pack in the back. BAD VIBE, I want to escape quick with my pack. He is a big overweight guy, maybe 300 pounds, myself being a male at 190. As he drives he is getting annoyed at your regular housefly and has a flyswatter in hand to smack it. We get to the top of the pass and I mention this is where I get off. He pulls into a parking area and says something about his displeasure of there being someone else there because he wanted to be with me or talk with me alone, WEIRD . It was a couple guys working in an Electric company truck. I'm about to go and he wants me to stay cause he wants somebody to talk to until he has to deliver computer parts, or whatever he said his job was, after lunch. I talk for a few minutes with my hand on the door and then I leave even though he wants me to stay.
A few days later I get a ride to the Gettysburg battlefield with a lady and her teenage daughter. I maybe mentioned something about Antietam and then the young girl says something about being careful hitching around Hagerstown because of somebody folks call Crazy .... because he has been known to pick up young kids and molest them and he drove a white van. How odd is that??? Maybe this guy thought I was ripe for the picking cause I'm so pretty.
I feel lucky I didn't throw that pack in the back because when I went to get it, he could have trapped me in the back of that van. I might not be typing on this computer today!
A white van slowly rolls by me. I had pretty much become discouraged at that point and figured I was going to have to walk the miles up the hill. I walk towards the van and get in. He doesn't say "hi" and seems a little odd. I sit down and he says that I can put my pack in the back. BAD VIBE, I want to escape quick with my pack. He is a big overweight guy, maybe 300 pounds, myself being a male at 190. As he drives he is getting annoyed at your regular housefly and has a flyswatter in hand to smack it. We get to the top of the pass and I mention this is where I get off. He pulls into a parking area and says something about his displeasure of there being someone else there because he wanted to be with me or talk with me alone, WEIRD . It was a couple guys working in an Electric company truck. I'm about to go and he wants me to stay cause he wants somebody to talk to until he has to deliver computer parts, or whatever he said his job was, after lunch. I talk for a few minutes with my hand on the door and then I leave even though he wants me to stay.
A few days later I get a ride to the Gettysburg battlefield with a lady and her teenage daughter. I maybe mentioned something about Antietam and then the young girl says something about being careful hitching around Hagerstown because of somebody folks call Crazy .... because he has been known to pick up young kids and molest them and he drove a white van. How odd is that??? Maybe this guy thought I was ripe for the picking cause I'm so pretty.
I feel lucky I didn't throw that pack in the back because when I went to get it, he could have trapped me in the back of that van. I might not be typing on this computer today!