I went for a walk tonight. In my little corner of JOCO I have done this a lot. I use to do it when we first moved here all the time. I like walking at night for many reasons. It's never bothered me to be out and about. I have a cell phone and usually catch up with friends (okay J) while doing it. SO, what made tonight different? I had this feeling that I HAD to be on the phone. Usually it's just catch her if you can thing. So, I had chatted with her a few minutes online and mentioned that if she had the time, I'd like to talk while walking. She was kind enough to say yes and even though my cell phone was low on battery and I could have left it at home---like I said I felt that I should be on the phone tonight.
So we're talking like we usually do about this and that and WHAMO, this car slows down by me. I'm thinking that's strange, but they then speed up some so I just watch as I talk. Then after they pass me and the couple coming from the other direction, they stop and get out of their car with their lights off. RED FLAG. I'm thinking they are in front of an empty parking lot and they just shut their lights off, not good. (don't get me wrong, I am not of the belief that fat people get attacked, one of the only benefits to being fat--window into my mind.) So why did this bother me? Okay, so I have heard enough stuff since becoming an adult that this was the first time that I thought "maybe there's something to this whole it doesn't matter what you look like to a perve."
So, I proceed to give blackboard a play by play....stay on the phone....there's a strange man out of his car....in front of an empty parking lot....he's O my....he's not....he is....no....yes.....He's peeing in front of me!
Yes that's right people, I got my first public viewing of a grown man relieving himself in town, in public. I think sheer shock motivated me to cut my walk to the 2 mile block vs 4 miles...okay that and I haven't walked in a while and 4 seemed a lot further away from home then 2. But still. In public, when he knew I was walking right by. I blog about this hoping that it will make me pause next time I decide to wait till it's dark to walk alone--because I like that better.
BTW, it was nice car and the guy was dressed in dockers and a polo shirt. Fit right into JOCO land....except for the whole wiener thing.
9 comments:
When you got to go, you got to go!
I too love to walk at night in the dark.
When I was in Junior High football (no laughing) we went on a road game, which was a 2 hour drive south of the town we were representing. By the time we got there a lot of the guys needed to go pretty badly. Rather than find actual bathroom facilities, the coach stopped by an area with trees spread out about every 10 to 15 feet and told us to each pick a tree and go. Almost everyone did. I held it.
Apparently there is precedent. Some guys will go anywhere.
Maybe these guys were former military? It seems that's all the military guys know...they would walk out of my house AWAY from the bathroom, only to go outside in FRONT of the house!!!
Course, maybe when I remarry, I will find a nice and orderly man! LOL!
However, growing up in the ruggedness of Alaska, while driving through Canada...sometimes that was the ONLY OPTION! =D
Well, I grew up on a farm and know all about out door peeing. However, I don't think in town, in a church parking lot, in front of a woman walking a lone is the place for this.
Hidden behind a tree is one thing, but church parking lots in front me of is another. Maybe if I were a guy I wouldn't have thought anything of it. Apparently it's cool in some of your circles (past or present) but I don't see it that way.
I tell Chandler to come inside to pee, I don't let him go in our backyard either (in case you were wondering.) But I know he has gone outside on more then one occasion at my folks house, where there is only one bathroom and anywhere from 10 to 20 people there when he is there. But again, not in front of others.
But I wasn't in the "naked suite" at college either. I believe something are supose to be private.
You would think that he would try to be more discreet about it. A cop could have driven by real easily and caught him.
If I need to go to the bathroom while driving, I usually try to find a McDonalds. You can slip in and out the side door. Dust feels bad about doing that sort of thing without buying something. I don't have a problem with it.
Exactly Golden, in town you have other options. BTW, yes I think he was probably drinking....drunk I don't know because he was driving okay and remembered to shut his lights off when he stopped. Signaled when leaving stopped at the stop sign. Things that a true drunk might forget.
We need to think a bit deeper here...You have to ask yourself what was the unseen. We don't know?
Obviously this guy was an angel sent from God to protect T from something.
Maybe there were a couple of teens ready to throw water ballons - not after the angel gets out and pees on them.
Maybe there was a gasoline spill and someone threw out a cigarette butt and T was going to become engulfed in a flame - not after the angel pees on it.
Maybe if you would have walked 4 miles you might have stepped in a hole and twisted your ankle - not after the angel pees in front of you. You decide two miles is good enough.
I wish an angel would visit me!
I love to smell the honeysuckles on a warm summer night. and sorry Mrs. T - I didn't know that was you.
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