Strange rest area experience...

[LeeH]

At truck stops they're called "lot lizards."

[Sonic dB]

Geeze thats risky behaviour just to save a few bucks. Get a room....they have nice safe beds and cable these days!

Go rent "There's Something About Mary"...if you need more motivation to change your ways .

[}{arlequin]

helps if you don't wear your "Wham" t-shirt...

this experience alone would wake me up enough to make it to the next rest stop.... though there's no guarantee that the next one isn't that *popular* either

[Vipergrün]

Frankie Say Relax........

[RoninLB]

Originally posted by URY914
There was a rest stop on I-75 in SW FL where they actually closed it down because of the stuff going on.

same on Long Island.

[djmcmath]

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
Dan,
You made it to CT? Where did you land?

I realized that I had a cousin (Twice removed? He's my dad's brother's son's wife's brother...) in the area that I hadn't talked to in a few years, so I gave him a call. Turns out that he's renting a place over a bike shop in Niantic for about 2/3 of my housing allowance. It isn't nice, but it's cheap lodging for 6 months. He also, coincidentally, owns a mechanic shop next door to the bike shop, so I'll probably get after-hours access. It could be worse.

[VINMAN]

That stuff goes on big time in NJ rest area's. One time I was driving through Michigan, I stopped to take a leak at a rest stop at night. when i got out of my car , a guy got out a few spots away. No big deal. As I was taking a leak he goes to the urinal next to mine, which bugged me because there was about 15 of them empty. He looks over at me looks at my fire dept jacket, says" youre a fireman thats cool" I said yeah thanks. Then hes looks over and says, "hey would you want a BJ?"
I dont even think i finished peeing , I zipped it right up, shoved the guy, said get the f@#k away from me. and ran the hell out of there. Hes walkin behind me saying "sorry bud i was just asking".
When i got back in my car, I called my wife to tell her what happened. Which I'm sorry i did, because she was so upset about it she almost peed herself from laughing so hard.

[cashflyer]

Originally posted by URY914
There was a rest stop on I-75 in SW FL where they actually closed it down because of the stuff going on. Florida rest areas now have signs that say "Secruity on Duty".

Same in SC. The "no-facilities" parking areas have been closed down, and a few years ago they remodelled all the full-service rest areas to include security personnel and parking lot cameras.

LeeH is correct: When I used to drive trucks (10yrs ago), the parkinglot prostitutes were referred to as "Lot Lizards". And the rest areas were referred to as "Pickle Parks" - for obvious reasons.

[alf]

Originally posted by VINMAN

I dont even think i finished peeing , I zipped it right up, shoved the guy, said get the f@#k away from me. and ran the hell out of there. Hes walkin behind me saying "sorry bud i was just asking".

You should have pee'd on the dude and make him pay you $20 for it

[Jeff Higgins]

A major rest stop with a weigh station just south of Everett on I-5 got shut down years ago because of this. There is a State Patrol branch headquarters there now that it has re-opened.

Funny society's reaction to this. We have had acceptance of the gay lifestyle crammed down our throats and up our... ahem, you get the idea... for years. When faced with a too-public display of this behavior everyone I know reacts with revulsion, no matter how "liberal" they profess to be. Funny how that works.

[djmcmath]

You know, it's kind of funny like that, Jeff. I felt ashamed of myself afterwards for not being more kind to the guy. I mean, he has every right to be hunting for prey at a rest area, right? I mean, how could he know that I was an innocent traveler, with no intent to commit sexual acts that evening? Who am I to judge? (sigh) I'm kind of surprised that this thread has made it to page 2 without a single "Dan is evil for not responding with kindness" comment.

[Craig 930 RS]

Dan you are an unkind beast with evil anti-homophobic intent.
You should have a least offered a little bit....

Howzzat?

[notfarnow]

Yeah, you could've at least given him a tug.

[vash]

just a gay dude looking for love without commitment. no harm, no foul. well, maybe he made a few assumptions.

[Jeff Higgins]

Hmm... could it be that deep down inside (not even that deep for some of us) we find the whole idea pretty damn disgusting? Imagine that. Maybe they still belong in the closet. It seems a lot of folks "tolerate" them in a detached kind of hypothetical way. Things can get way to real when one propositions you, though. Or hangs out near where your kids play, or any number of more personal encounters with one.

[vash]

sorry jeff. dont feel that way. i dont have a stamp on my head saying "i love women!". i work out at a gym that is 80% gay. i dont know if i am open minded, or i am just plain used to it. but i have been asked out, and i just give them a friendly "no thank you". it doesnt bother me a bit. i have never caught a man secretly spanking it to me, that may be another issue entirely, but i know it wont make me gay like some transmitable disease or anything. but on the other hand, i have never seen a woman secretly fingering herself to me either. either way, no harm no foul.

or as they say in thailand, "same, same, but different" just this weekend, i went to a friend's birthday party. his "partner" threw a suprise at a local bar. i swear, in that room, there were all sorts of hot women there. this one girl, annie, a cute professional organizer, told me, "tonight i am gonna have to hook up with a guy, been too long" i looked at her, and she asked, "is that your girlfriend?" i stammered out a stupid meek "yes", and my girl looked at me and said, "you wish!" she found another straight guy and was off to the races. not 10 minutes later, an asian woman comes up to me, grabs my arm and ask, "are you scott?". NO!

i wish i was scott. seriously, whatever people do that doesnt affect me, is just that, whatever. put a positive spin on it. gay guys improve the straight men, to straight women ratio!

[notfarnow]

I'm with Vash on this one...

I used to do a lot of hitchhiking and was propositioned more than once. A simple "No thanks" was all it took... no need to take offense.

I always figured it was no different than when I hit on girls... I knew I wouldn't always be succesful but persistance would help ya get lucky now and then.

It'd definately be different if he was forceful or aggressive... I have no tolerance for that, but that's true of guys hitting on girls too.

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
Things can get way to real when one propositions you, though. Or hangs out near where your kids play, or any number of more personal encounters with one.

I wouldn't worry about my kids being around gay men. I'd worry about them being around pedophiles.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally posted by notfarnow
I wouldn't worry about my kids being around gay men. I'd worry about them being around pedophiles.

Like Catholic Priests?

[david.avery]

I've got a really creepy rest-area story from my childhood, yep, happened in CT as well. This was probably 1982-83, but I can't see it getting much better.

I lived on the other side of a rest area, you could ride your bike for 10 mins and get through to a I91 rest area. A buddy and I (we were 12 or so) would frequently ride there to get a soda or collect cans for returns (I know I know, dumb move of course)

One day, we were walking through, and a van pulled up fast and a guy said "are you guys s***ing d**k today?"

We backed away a little, then the sliding door opened, and like three middle aged guys came flying out. We ran our a**es off, even ran through a swamp. The guys followed us into the swamp too. We were able to get away, they were calling after us to come back. I didn't realize until 3-4 years later how close I came to being a statistic, as there were several abductions from this same rest area.

Moral of the story, unless you're really, REALLY tired, skip the rest area and go to an "easy on-easy off" populated area. Also, if you live close, don't ever let your kids go anywhere near one!