Dark Alleys Should Always Be Avoided

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From and Credits to: absenttoast

"It's kind of hard to describe but I live next to a 24-hour grocery store that's by itself in a big parking lot. I walk up a side alley and turn to the left to get to the front entrance.

"One night at 5 AM I walked over to it to get something. When I came back out of the store there was an old man waiting at a bus stop right out front next to the alley I had come from. For some reason I immediately felt weird and did not want to walk by him, at all. So I walked back into the grocery store. I waited ten minutes before I decided to walk back anyway, thinking I was being silly. The man was gone.

"But I still felt really weird. That's when I remembered that the bus doesn't run for two hours. And since he never went into the grocery store I couldn't think of a single reason why he would have been waiting there. I just kept thinking he was waiting for me and even though he was gone I knew I could not walk back the way I came. Instead I walked in the opposite direction and up a hill before crossing over. When I looked down I could see in the alley I would have walked down. The man was hiding there, leaning against the wall, waiting for me. I now only go to that store during daylight."

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