Sometimes jogging at night is a fun thing to do, but remember there are a lot of perverts out there and they lurk in the dark. I put on my headphones the other night, and laced up my running shoes. When I had started out down the street in the dark, I knew it was not the safest thing to do. Running in any major city at night could bring on something horrible---like death.
I had been ten minutes into my run when strange thoughts raced through my head. What if a car stopped along the side of the road and some big crazy man pulled me inside and then victimized me? What if two men pulled me inside and put a gun to my head and commanded that I perform fellatio? These thoughts surfaced and I tried to dismiss them, but five minutes later a car pulled over to the side of the road and I grew scared. This was it. I thought I would be raped with a sledge hammer.
It turns out the car pulled to the side of the road because a fire engine was behind him and I could not hear the sirens because of my headphones. This is a lesson for all night joggers. Just because a car stops to the side of the road next to you does not automatically mean that you will be kidnapped or taken on an adventure to commit a robbery. It simply means that there might be a house burning down, and you better hope the fire truck gets there in time to save it.
I was relieved...I could carry on with my stupid little night run. But then I saw a row of bushes and wondered if my killer was hiding in them.
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