Strange rest area experience...

[djmcmath]

I just completed another cross-country drive, sleeping in rest areas on the way across. It's way more efficient than sleeping in hotels, and just oodles cheaper, if less comfortable. I found out Friday night in a rest area outside an unnamed metropolis exactly how uncomfortable in can be.

So I pull in, and the rest area seems unusually busy for 1am on a Saturday morning. I ignored the crowds, a particular specialty for me, and I started going through my evening routine -- dig out my toothbrush, lay out my sleeping bag across the front seat, the whole works. After just a moment, though, I realize kind of a strange thing. The guy in the car next to me has pulled up, and he's alone in his car, and it's still running. He's just sitting there in his running car. I don't think twice about it as I go in to brush my teeth. I come back out and he's still there, though, and there's another one next to him -- same deal -- driver is alone, car is running.

That kind of makes me uncomfortable, for reasons that I couldn't put my finger on, so I got in my car and moved to another spot. ... They both followed me.

I pretended to ignore them for a moment longer, then the guy in the closer car blatantly adjusted his rearview mirror to watch me without looking directly at me. That threw me over the edge.

I got out of my car and walked around to his car. He rolled down his window. "Is there something I can help you with?" I asked.

"Uh, no, I guess not," he muttered, sounding somewhat sheepish. He was mid-50's, maybe, with crinkly skin, a scraggly beard, and one ear-ring.

"What's that?" I asked -- I wasn't sure I had heard him.

"I, uh, thought you might be, uh, interested in something," he replied.

Then, all of a sudden, I _got_ it. Walking back around to the driver's side of my car, I made the mistake of looking into the car parked on my left side. Some guy was apparently getting "warmed up" for an encounter. Or maybe "cooling down" after an encounter. Or something. Ew, right there in public! ... What an evening. I ended up sleeping there anyway, with my doors locked, trying to ignore the people who pulled alongside, left their engines running, and just looked at me through my windows.

Anybody else have one of these? Know any more details? What kind of signal do you have to give to say "I'm not interested in anything?"

[bryanthompson]

aaaahhhhhh!!! run away!

[bryanthompson]

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[Mulhollanddose]

They are homosexual prowlers, found frequently at parks and rest-stops.

[Icemaster]

Originally posted by djmcmath
What kind of signal do you have to give ...

The right turn signal as you pull into a motel parking lot.

[Dixie]

The right turn signal as you pull into a motel parking lot.

Wait! I think that's backwards.

Isn't it, "Left is right, and right is wrong?"

[Icemaster]

Ooops...

In our generation yes. These days, all bets are off.

That sounded bad.

Not that theres anything wrong with that.

Ahem.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
They are homosexual prowlers, found frequently at parks and rest-stops.

and you would know this exactly how, with emphasis on "frequently"?

Dan, glad you made it safely! Fortuantely, I did not encounter anything of this sort in my trek.

54 hours in a 69 E

[widebody911]

Kinda like the scene in "Something about Mary"

[Racerbvd]

Well, a few years back, coming home from a Porsche Club Race in a caravan, one of the guys had a flat on his trailer, since I was just ahead, I pulled into the next rest stop. While waiting for them to get the tire changed a mile down the road, I was watching what was going on around me (this was GA and I had a Porsche race car on the trailer) a ugly chick walks up and knocks on the window of my SUV (yes, those of us who do track events drive big trucks & SUVs as track support vehicles) and ask if I need a date I tell her my friends are only a few minutes back and I'm heading out as soon as they call, so No thank you . I am now watching everything around me very closely, she goes truck to truck until I see here climb into an 18 wheeler. I tell my buddies that the really owe me for putting me through that when we stop for dinner

[Craig 930 RS]

Dan, you had balls of kryptonite to get out of your car and walk up to the car. Yikes......

[trj911]

Was the guy backed in to his parking spot?

[djmcmath]

Balls of kryptonite? Do not confuse courage for idiocy in the face of sheer exhaustion, my dear friend.

Racer -- not too long ago, I was scanning CB frequencies on a drive up I-95 through Georgia. At a truck stop up ahead there was some woman on the horn blabbing about how good she was, and how she'd make your five bucks worth your while. You want to know the sick part? People were actually answering! She sounded like she had to be at least 50, but maybe she was hot. Heck, who knows, maybe all these years I've been looking in the wrong places, and the hot chicks are waiting at truck stops advertising their services on the CB. Ew.

Shaun, glad to hear your drive went well. 54 hours is a lot better than I was liable to make in the Honda Civic, heavily loaded. lol. I could barely make 50 up the rolling midwestern hills, let alone 90!

[island911]

Originally posted by trj911
Was the guy backed in to his parking spot?

Sounds like he wanted to back into Dan's.

Hopefully the subject of 'rims' didn't come up. -yy'Yikes


Glad ya made it to CT okay.

[Mulhollanddose]

Originally posted by Shaun 84 Targa
and you would know this exactly how, with emphasis on "frequently"?

Is this a secret to you G9Shaun?

[Racerbvd]

Originally posted by djmcmath
Balls of kryptonite? Do not confuse courage for idiocy in the face of sheer exhaustion, my dear friend.

Racer -- not too long ago, I was scanning CB frequencies on a drive up I-95 through Georgia. At a truck stop up ahead there was some woman on the horn blabbing about how good she was, and how she'd make your five bucks worth your while. You want to know the sick part? People were actually answering! She sounded like she had to be at least 50, but maybe she was hot. Heck, who knows, maybe all these years I've been looking in the wrong places, and the hot chicks are waiting at truck stops advertising their services on the CB. Ew.

Shaun, glad to hear your drive went well. 54 hours is a lot better than I was liable to make in the Honda Civic, heavily loaded. lol. I could barely make 50 up the rolling midwestern hills, let alone 90!

That is near Kingsland, a local joke going on for many years, I don't think that she really ever acted, but I never acted, so I can't be sure, I had a sales route and traveledthat roade twice a week and with races (with local Friends) so I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that she is BS

[VaSteve]

Originally posted by widebody911
Kinda like the scene in "Something about Mary"

Seriously. Dan, I can't believe you didn't even consider this!!! You need to catch up on your movie watching!!


Next time roll up in the Wal-Mart parking lot*. No bathroom to brush your teeth or pee, but no action like that!!


* Wal-Mart actually lets you sleep in their parking lots if you're an RVer. I guess they assume you'll buy some stuff inside. All their road atlases have the stores marked.

[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".

What a world we live in....

[M.D. Holloway]

Dan,
You made it to CT? Where did you land?

[Mulhollanddose]

Originally posted by VaSteve
Next time roll up in the Wal-Mart parking lot*. No bathroom to brush your teeth or pee, but no action like that!!

Probably why Democrats and union thugs hate Wal-Mart.







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