Real Encounters

*Lock your car doors while driving*

I am oddly a target for creepy people. I am only 4'11" and female, so that may be why.

A month ago, I was at a pharmacy filling a prescription. I have central pain following a stroke I had in my early 20's. I can walk, but the brain damage causes severe burning in my entire body. Due to this, I am on morphine and seen by a specialist at a well-known hospital.

I dropped off my prescription and waited. I noticed a guy behind me, standing way too close. He could hear everything we said. I sat down and tested my blood pressure. I noticed him walking around in the aisles by me. I thought he was waiting too. They called my name 20 minutes later. I didn't see him while leaving the store. I looked in my car and got in, locking my doors immediately due to paranoia of watching scary movies, I guess.

I stopped at the first stop sign and out from behind the tree jumps the same guy. In one motion he was out from behind the tree and was grabbing my passenger side door handle. It was locked. He seemed as shocked as I was and looked like he was grabbing for the back passenger door.

I started screaming and put my hand on my horn and sped away. Other cars were also honking. I saw him run. I drove until I saw a cop car sitting at Carl's Jr and ran in. He took my info and drove to the stop sign and asked me to follow. I couldn't see him anywhere. The police officer said it happened last week to an elderly lady, so he needed to find him. I was really, really lucky. Always lock your door.

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