Has this happened to you?

[Bobmi357]

In another thread a poster told about deliberately throwing a game because the opponent looked like he'd probably rip his head off if he lost the game. This got me wondering about an incident that happened to me when I was very young.

A group of us, ranging in ages from 12 to 8 were playing in a large lot roughly three blocks from our home. The lot was heavily overgrown with reeds, many exceeding 6 feet in height. We were playing hide n seek, and given the underbrush, one single game could last over an hour with people hiding.

I was standing on a small hill that gave me some vantage to try to spot people. It was all the "it" people stood before taking to the paths. Along came this guy, he was pretty tall (over 6ft), heavily pockmarked face, shoddily dressed, red haired. Something about him scared me terribly, I actually had a shiver run up my spine, but he ignored me and continued walking in the reeds. A little while later, one of the girls (I'll call her "J") with us, came running up to the hill screaming with the same guy chasing after her. She had no pants on at all. Being 12 I hadn't a clue what he was doing, but I knew the girl was in trouble, so I beaned him on the head with a rock and ran for my life screaming "ally up! There's a mugger on the loose".

I can't say the rock seriously hurt the guy, but it must of scored well enough to allow J to escape. My friends and I had managed to flag down a passing car, and the guy was nice enough to drive us back to the area to look for J, at one point J came out of the reeds, trying to pull her shirt down to cover herself, she was crying a lot. After that, things got a bit blurry with cops, hysterical parents, trips to the precinct to look over mugshots etc...

But in all of my life since, no one has ever given me the willies like that one guy did. It was like he looked at me and decided I wasn't worth his attention. Has anyone run across a person that seemed to give you the instant heebeejeebies? I'm not talking about a slimeball blind date, I mean someone that actually made the hair on the back of your neck stand up and your spine shiver?

 

[God of Threads]

No

No.

 

[Guru]

Re: No

No.

Thank you for showing the depth and breadth of your vocabulary. Fuckwit.

 

[God of Threads]

Re: Re: No

Thank you for showing the depth and breadth of your vocabulary. Fuckwit.

Thank you.

And thank you for explaining a long tale that only your best friend would find of modest interest and only then after drinking a lot of his or her favorite sauce.

 

[Guru]

Like I care.

 

[Cleopatra]

In another thread a poster told about deliberately throwing a game because the opponent looked like he'd probably rip his head off if he lost the game.

That was mine.

Something about him scared me terribly, I actually had a shiver run up my spine, but he ignored me and continued walking in the reeds.

This happens to me occasionally - and I've learned to trust that shiver. If I feel it - I'm not hanging around to find out if I was right or wrong.

 

[Liontamr]

Re: Re: No

Thank you for showing the depth and breadth of your vocabulary. Fuckwit.

This from the guy who would post just to bump his post count...

 

[VincentFloyd]

hey what's wrong with posting just to bump the count?

684...

 

[sweet soft kiss]

Bob nothing quite that dramatic has ever happened to me... but there have been times when people have scared me that way....

Like Cleo I perfer to trust my instincts around people like that... Unfortunately my cousin's daughter is marrying a man who gives me those hair standing up on the back of my neck feeling... and so did her first husband, who turned out to a wife beater... this one dosen't look any better to me...

 

[Lost Cause]

That was me you little shit!

Not really, kids and adults need to follow their cosmic given instincts when they go about their lives, you folowed your own well.

 

[SuprSalor]

Bob nothing quite that dramatic has ever happened to me... but there have been times when people have scared me that way....

Like Cleo I perfer to trust my instincts around people like that... Unfortunately my cousin's daughter is marrying a man who gives me those hair standing up on the back of my neck feeling... and so did her first husband, who turned out to a wife beater... this one dosen't look any better to me...

Dang, ssk, hope you've shared those misgivings to her. Or is love blind?

 

[VincentFloyd]

I remember at my last job, a guy who later turned out to be the manager of the receiving department...I bumped into him one day and OH HOLY CRAP he was like five foot eight, shaved head, tattoos EVERYWHERE and these beady eyes, looked like he just got out of prison, mean mexican motherfucker...now I find myself fairly intimidating with my long hair and devil goatees and mexicaness, but I nearly peed myself looking at this guy...month or so later I get moved to the receiving department, and he's my boss! and of course...turns out he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met, goes out of his way to make me feel part of the team

first impressions geez

 

[Cleopatra]

I remember at my last job, a guy who later turned out to be the manager of the receiving department...I bumped into him one day and OH HOLY CRAP he was like five foot eight, shaved head, tattoos EVERYWHERE and these beady eyes, looked like he just got out of prison, mean mexican motherfucker...now I find myself fairly intimidating with my long hair and devil goatees and mexicaness, but I nearly peed myself looking at this guy...month or so later I get moved to the receiving department, and he's my boss! and of course...turns out he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met, goes out of his way to make me feel part of the team

first impressions geez

Yeah - the biggest, toughest-looking guys I know are all sweet on the inside. I don't judge by a cover, so to speak, but I *do* listen to that sixth sense.

 

[VincentFloyd]

the guy was funny too, we would crack each other up with really lame jokes like...

"a horse walks into a bar, and the bartender says 'why the long face?' "

the rest of the guys would groan and yell at me, but the boss would nearly cry cuz he was laughing so hard

 

[Cleopatra]

Or the one where the two molecules walk into a bar, and the one says "I lost an electron" and the other asks how he knows and he says, "I'm positive!"

Sorry. That one only cracks *me* up.

 

[VincentFloyd]

LOL! I've never heard that one before, which is saying something because I've heard them all

"robber goes into the circus and sees a clown tying his shoes. he goes up to him, points the gun at his back and says 'ok stick 'em up buddy this is a robbery, put your hands up in the air, hand over you money, but don't try any funny business!' "

 

[Cleopatra]

LOL! I've never heard that one before, which is saying something because I've heard them all

"robber goes into the circus and sees a clown tying his shoes. he goes up to him, points the gun at his back and says 'ok stick 'em up buddy this is a robbery, put your hands up in the air, hand over you money, but don't try any funny business!' "

Ok, that one got a grin.

 

[sweet soft kiss]

Dang, ssk, hope you've shared those misgivings to her. Or is love blind?

Yeah I have, about the first and the second. The rest of the family feels the same way, except her and her parents. No one listens anyway. They come from the school that says being married to anyone is better than being single.

 

[Bobmi357]

Re: Re: Has this happened to you?

This happens to me occasionally - and I've learned to trust that shiver. If I feel it - I'm not hanging around to find out if I was right or wrong.

I can't say I've ever met someone like that since. But it was funny, reading your original post brought my thoughts back to that incident of my childhood like it was clear as having happened yesterday. Funny the way memory works and what can trigger a memory.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Yeah I have, about the first and the second. The rest of the family feels the same way, except her and her parents. No one listens anyway. They come from the school that says being married to anyone is better than being single.

Misguided, antiquated thinking, obviously. Better by far to listen to the inner voices than to conform to something for the sake of appearances.

 

[fgarvb1]

Yes.

The only thing that bothers me is that most of them don't LOOK evil.

I passed this dude on the sidewalk of a street one day and was almost over whelmed with the sense of evilness that he put out.

It almost like he was wearing a force field covering an area about twenty foot in diameter.

He looked no better or worse than anybody else around him.

However, I am somewhat sensitive about such things.