[ SECRET POST #2099 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2099 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

Danger! Warning!

[(Anonymous)]

Ever have one of those moments that, for no really good reason, your self preservation bells start jangling?

I had one today. Standing at the bus stop, waiting for a city bus, and there's a light breeze blowing. Not thinking much of it, since it's barely noticeable.

Then I get a faint scent of a big wet dog. Having lived within 3 miles of a dozen coyote dens, I knew the scent pretty well, and I guess the association was what set me off.

I look downwind expecting to see a big dog off it's leash (plenty of those, unfortunately), but what I see instead is a rather large middle-aged guy, a couple hundred feet away from me, whose scent I had picked up from the wind. He was walking a little weird, and was dressed in baggy, dirty clothes.

NOPE.

So I stepped off the sidewalk and onto the grass between the road and the curb and hoped I didn't attract his attention. He walked off past me, and the scent was so powerful it kind of gagged me.

Before anybody starts on me for discrimination, I know these types of guys. I grew up around them. I was taught to stay the hell away from them, and he was sending up some danger signals for a young woman standing alone on a street corner.

Re: Danger! Warning!

[demishock]

Always, always, always trust your gut! I've had a few moments like that before, and I've always found that that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach was entirely justified. Always better to be cautious, ESPECIALLY when you're alone. Discrimination be damned; if you're feeling endangered, definitely err on the side of protecting yourself.

I'm glad for you that nothing came of it!

Re: Danger! Warning!

[forgottenjester]

I've had a moment like that. It ended up with me alone, hiding in my mother's bathroom in my house, holding a huge meat carving knife. A grown man stalked outside my house trying to get in, screaming the name of a woman who does not live at my house nor any house on my street that I know of.

While it's great to say, "You should have offered him/her help." If you are a person who cannot defend themself, and even if you can (What's a good right hook going to do against a gun?), you have every right to trust your gut and get away. Your safety comes first, then theirs.

Re: Danger! Warning!

[silverau]

I had a moment like that once, too. I was staying at a motel where there were a lot of stray cats hanging around. I saw a couple guys carrying a cat into a room in their shirts. The cat was trying to get away and they were telling it to shut up. Normally I would've assumed that it was their cat just being a typical noncompliant cat and they were getting frustrated at it, but something about the way they were talking to it gave me the creeps. Five minutes later, the police came and arrested those guys. Still dunno what for, but it was an interesting experience. :/ So anyway, I agree it's good to trust your gut and stay away from people who give you bad vibes.

Re: Danger! Warning!

[(Anonymous)]

A couple of years ago, I got into a subway late at night and there was this guy talking loudly to himself. Shortly before the subway left the station, I realised I was alone in the wagon with him. Although I told myself he was probably harmless and I was overreacting, I followed my gut and got into the next wagon.

In the middle of the ride, he started banging on the window of the door to the next wagon and yelling angrily. I was so glad I had gone with my gut feeling.