Creeps, true stories from Reddit (Second book)

Men made an attempt to kidnap me (i'm pretty sure)

Last summer, my friend, and my boyfriend at the time went on vacation in Daytona Beach, Florida. I never went to Florida previously, and didn't realize how sketchy the area was until I had already arrived. We arrived at our low-end motel, called the Grand Prix. The owners knew little english, so it was hard to converse with them. I took my stuff in the room we were in, and unpacked. After unpacking, we wanted to go see what there was to offer for entertainment, or at least a bar to stop at. I booked our Uber to pick us up in 10 minutes in the motel parking lot. As I opened my room door to go outside, a guy almost instantly shouted to me from the other side of the parking lot. "Hey miss! Hey you! Do you have a lighter?" It was a tall man, from the middle east if I had to make a guess, and he had to other guys with him. My bf and friend were still in the room during all this, and for whatever reason, my friendly dumbass was like "Yes I definitely can give you a lighter, here!" They insisted that I would need to walk over to them. I had a weird feeling about that. But luckily, my bf came outside at that point. The motel owner all a sudden comes running outside the front desk office. He was screaming at this group of guys "Get out of here, get off this property or the police will be called!" I was thinking to myself, what is going on??? The owner then told us that this group of men had stolen off them repeatedly, did a few other things "he wouldn't speak of", and that word around was they were involved in a big sex-trafficking ring in Florida. But I assumed everything was okay now. They were gone, right?

5 more minutes went by and our Uber pulled in. As the Uber turned to pull out of the motel lot, I look to my left and behind the front desk building, aside a bush in the dark those three men were hiding. I made eye contact with the guy who asked me for a lighter. Instantly, I had chills. I called the front desk, and tried to explain what I just witnessed. I don't know what their intentions were, but I always think about it here and there. What were those men doing?

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