SUBMITTED BY TIMJERON891
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this took place during the early 1990s i was 10 or 11 at the time my family and i lived in a rural area near kansas city this particular area is very different nowadays compared to what it was in the 90s back in the day it had a very country-like atmosphere we lived off of a gravel road and traffic was very sporadic typically the only people who drove down our road were the people who lived there and there were only a few houses on our street at the time across the street from the house that we moved into was a cornfield with a few trees beside the road there were a couple of boys my age who lived in the same neighborhood and we all thought it would be fun to build a treehouse or a fort of some kind i was across the street almost every day my friends would usually walk to my house and then we would go across the street to play in the fort think of that scene in the 1990 miniseries of stephen king's it where the losers club was building that dam in the river outside of derry yep it was a lot like that one day i was across the street with one of the other boys we noticed a small blue car driving up and down the street slowly since our road was very narrow and gravelly it wasn't unusual for cars to drive down it slowly but this car in particular was driving extremely slow i noticed that the driver would look out his window and sort of eyeball us every time that he drove by i saw him at least two or three more times that afternoon i remember thinking that he was probably curious about our playhouse or that he was lost and was contemplating on asking us for directions after a while my friend had to take off leaving me there all by myself not long after my friend had left i saw that same blue car driving down our street once again but this time he came to a stop the driver just sat there and stared at me for a while and i got this uneasy feeling about him even at that age i knew all about stranger danger i began to feel like something bad was going to happen i could hear my dad's words echoing in my head if a stranger tries to grab you you run as fast as you can and scream your head off i started thinking about which direction to run off to i knew that if i ran off in the opposite direction that i would be running into a cornfield that was at least a mile wide in every direction if i ran towards my house i would have to cross the street meaning that i would have to pass the creepy guy in the car the situation terrified me and i could feel my heart be escalating as i decided what the hell i should do while deciding which direction will give you my best chance of escaping i saw the guy reach down for something i never saw what he was reaching for but something told me that if i didn't take off in that moment i would be history i then saw the driver's side door open just a crack i knew that my dad was home at the time so i decided to make a break for it i knew that i was going to have to cross the street and make it past the man's car so i began running as fast as i could alongside the road opposite of where the man's car was facing i could see out of the corner of my eye that the man had closed his driver's side door whenΒ .............................
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