.Last night I went for a walk (Trying to lose that extra 2020 poundage!) and put on one of my podcast to keep me company while I walked. It is fall now and it gets dark earlier. There has also been construction on our street for a couple of months now so some sidewalks and roads are really messed up! The construction workers have taken down some of the street lights so it is even darker than normal in our neighborhood. Even though all these factors exist, I feel very safe in the neighborhood. I didn't think the dark would bother me... I had a flashlight after all!! I don't even walk outside of the neighborhood and know many of my neighbors. Everything was just fine...
I turned on one of my favorite podcasts Mens Rea and starting listening to the calm Irish voice. I did this with only one ear bud in so I could still be aware of my surroundings while I walked. (I am so safety conscious!!!) The episode that was next for me to listen to turned out to be about 3 young women that had been abducted while walking home!! (Wrong episode to listen to when walking in the dark! But did I change it to another episode... No!!!) I was getting a little nervous... but I was okay as I had a flashlight and was in my safe neighborhood; I told myself!! Then I noticed what I thought was a man! Of course I was in an area that there were no houses!!! He had a dog so that meant he was a nice man... Right?!? I was on a part of the road that had no street lights, and no houses, with a man in a hoodie walking towards me with a large sized dog!!! And to top it off my podcast is right in the part were it describes how the women were abducted!!! He walked past them and then attacked them from behind!!! Then he dragged them to his white van!!! (By the Way always stay away from white vans!!! I listen to enough true crime podcast that I can tell you that somehow there is always a white van involved in abductions!!!) The man in the hoodie said hello and another little pleasantry and continued on his walk. I listened for footsteps behind me to see if they were getting closer rather than further away! Okay, I was done!!! I walked as quickly as I could straight back for the house! (that isn't very fast unfortunately!) I decided that tomorrow I had to have a walking buddy, and walk when there is still some light to the day, carry a larger flashlight that can be used as a weapon, and make sure all the outside lights are on at the house so it is well lit as I run (looks like walking! LOL) for home!!! And I cannot listen to true crime podcasts while I walk! T-Shirt therapy- Stay away from white vans... You may not come back alive!!! I need to make that T shirt!!!
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