I feel like Goldilocks
Sep. 6th, 2010 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noracharlesI'm at ximeria's apartment while she isn't here. A guy was coming to inspect the building during her working hours, so I was here to let him in. Now I'm sitting here enjoying her excellent coffee, and using her sleek and quick laptop :-D
In other news, something creepy happened. The main arteries of the city I live in form a kind of starfish shape. I live at the end of one leg, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goddessindia lives at the end of the leg next to it. So to go home from her place I can go to the city center, which is a long distance and I would have to deal with traffic, or I can take a shortcut using some minor streets.
A few weeks ago I was riding my bike home, taking the shortcut which goes through an area where no one lives. It's an old factory district, and now there are strip malls, a cemetary and garden lots for people who live in apartment buildings somewhere else.
There are a few streetlights, but they're aimed at the middle of the road. The sidewalks are very dark. So I was going home, and I see very faintly the silhouette of a man riding a bike in an odd, slow way. He has no lights on, and he's wearing black pants and a black hoodie pulled up so it obscures his face. This was a warm summer night.
I thought he was acting freaky, and maybe he was going that slow because he was drunk, but I thought there was also a real chance he was up to no good. So I give him a wide berth as I pass him, and speed up. So he also speeds up, right when I pass him. He's following me pretty closely, but I put my bike in the highest gear and stand up to tramp the pedals. When I reach the end of the street that cuts through the cemetary where the strip malls are, there's more light, and he stops following me.
Then I see in the news that a man wearing clothes of that description has been lurking in the hedges by the cemetary and the garden lot, and has jumped out and chased two women bicyclists and tried to run them down. They both managed to get away, but they reported to the police that he was very obviously trying to knock them over.
Scary O_o
I wonder if it's the same guy who would hang trip wires across the bicycle path and drag the women bicyclists off into the underbrush a few years ago.
ximeria's apartment while she isn't here. A guy was coming to inspect the building during her working hours, so I was here to let him in. Now I'm sitting here enjoying her excellent coffee, and using her sleek and quick laptop :-DIn other news, something creepy happened. The main arteries of the city I live in form a kind of starfish shape. I live at the end of one leg, and
goddessindia lives at the end of the leg next to it. So to go home from her place I can go to the city center, which is a long distance and I would have to deal with traffic, or I can take a shortcut using some minor streets.A few weeks ago I was riding my bike home, taking the shortcut which goes through an area where no one lives. It's an old factory district, and now there are strip malls, a cemetary and garden lots for people who live in apartment buildings somewhere else.
There are a few streetlights, but they're aimed at the middle of the road. The sidewalks are very dark. So I was going home, and I see very faintly the silhouette of a man riding a bike in an odd, slow way. He has no lights on, and he's wearing black pants and a black hoodie pulled up so it obscures his face. This was a warm summer night.
I thought he was acting freaky, and maybe he was going that slow because he was drunk, but I thought there was also a real chance he was up to no good. So I give him a wide berth as I pass him, and speed up. So he also speeds up, right when I pass him. He's following me pretty closely, but I put my bike in the highest gear and stand up to tramp the pedals. When I reach the end of the street that cuts through the cemetary where the strip malls are, there's more light, and he stops following me.
Then I see in the news that a man wearing clothes of that description has been lurking in the hedges by the cemetary and the garden lot, and has jumped out and chased two women bicyclists and tried to run them down. They both managed to get away, but they reported to the police that he was very obviously trying to knock them over.
Scary O_o
I wonder if it's the same guy who would hang trip wires across the bicycle path and drag the women bicyclists off into the underbrush a few years ago.