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    I was I think 17 years old. Went down to Myrtle Beach SC riding along with a friend of mine. We were on the classic First Week of June Tour, when everybody went down there after high school graduation.

    He was driving and took us so far out in the boonies I couldn't really you where we were. Way out there somewhere in the swamps. This was decades before the Myrtle Beach area got paved over. Before development at all. I mean we were in Deliverance territory.

    A DISCO club, of all things. Middle of nowhere. Lit up real blue in the parking lot, and lots of shady characters standing around in the parking lot as we went in.

    We walked in between them all. They sort of parted as we came through. They grunted and looked at us like we were real young meat on the hoof. This night was already real weird.

    Got inside drinking illegal beers (no ID check here, that was the draw, according to my buddy), and didn't know what else to do but to walk laps around the place. It was layed out such that you could make laps around the bar inside the building. Every lap around there was this strange girl who looked about as displaced as I felt. As I went by she'd ask, "Do you know what time it is?" I'd tell her and keep walking. It happened maybe every three mintes - "Do you know what time it is?"

    Then I got the sense that maybe this was a pickup line she was using. I'd never been picked up before. About the 10th time I lingered and asked, "Why do you keep wanting to know what time it is?"

    "Because I just want to get out of here. Would you like to go somewhere else?" I told her I wasn't driving, and she told me that she WAS. She took me by the hand and led me toward the door. What's a 17-year old guy to do? I was being led away from my buddy lost somewhere in the crowd, he has no iea, and I had no idea where we were going, 200 miles from home.

    We got out to the parking lot, past all of the gangsters huddled around the door, and we sat down in her car. It was so dark, but I think it was one of the earliest Jap things ever stateside. She cranked it up and I asked, "Where are we going?" She said, "Another place up the road. A better place." The car's motor was running and my heart was beating out of my chest. This has got to be wrong, but this may be so right.

    She pulled out the light switch to turn on the headlights. They came on. But she shoved the switch right back in and did it again. "Dang light switch doesn't work right." She was flashing the headlights over and over. What didn't work about the light switch when they come on when you pull the switch out every time?

    The gangsters around the entrance to the bar started conferring. The chick was giving them the signal - she had a chump in the car. They talked amongst each other and started walking our way. Here they come. This was a setup. I was about to be robbed and killed in a bar parking lot, and this chick who picked me up is in on it.

    I was about to die of natural causes when the gangsters all slid past the door of the car and kept walking further in the parking lot. They were not after me at all. And sure enough, the more the chick played with the light switch on the car, the less the lights came on. She finally turned to me and said, "I'm sorry, but we can't go anywhere at all. I'm gonna have to call my dad. These lights just don't work."

    I was never so glad to see the inside of a disco bar again after that.




    Charter member of the Turd Nuggets

  • #2
    Re: The Scariest Thing That Didn't Happen

    "...die of natural causes..." LOL

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    • #3
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      That's a cool story....

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      • #4
        Re: The Scariest Thing That Didn't Happen

        Originally posted by Not A Duster
        That's a cool story....
        I was scared for him a bit...but oh, he is alive to post this. ;D

        I can't remember scary things that didn't happen...

        I do recall one scary time...

        cruising down highway, normal, 75-80, maine. Its like that at a minimum.
        A guy in a brown camaro, in front, slowing down speeding up, I could smell chemistry, like a bad convertor.. he was on and off the throttle. I know to keep an eye on him. I stayed right lane , he stayed left. He was starting to weave, I kept an eye on him approaching the passenger side window in the right lane...
        I looked back over...and there is a car doing like 5 mph less than a 100feet away to my 80mph...

        no time for breakdown lane, the bridge sloped down taking up road...
        left lane it is..ya know, where the camaro is.... the fit was so tight, and so very fast... both my my mirrors folded in. one kicked in from the slow car, one kicked in from the faster one...
        I then started to slide right..oddly enough the car stayed there seemingly forever. Bang.. off a guard rail, squeezed the boxer down to two cylinders. I could not see over the hood, and knew to be sure I am in the brekdown lane..traffic around.I kept driving until I knew I was on the side of the road, still running with infinite balance beyond a harley..with half an engine.... No leaks nothing, kinda funny. The car was totaled, where I was sitting dropped down, the belly pan and beams were kinked. front end smashed... the camaro kept going. The cops never went after it. I read about a similar car in the news later on, and photo fit the guy..he was a drug addict and in trouble. : small world...

        anyway it was my luckiest day ever. A direct hit to the slow poke would have been nasty.
        Previously boxer3main
        the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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        • #5
          Re: The Scariest Thing That Didn't Happen

          Cool story, the worst my mind can come up with is usually far worse than reality. On second thought, here in the states my mind is worse than reality, not so much in the desert. Paradigms, they make a huge difference.

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          • #6
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            The scariest thing that didn't happen to me was the day I DIDN'T get arrested for speeding, passing multiple cars at a time all while hauling a hatchback full of shady friends, guns, beers, some slightly warm stuff and maybe even some special "brownies". Still not sure how I pulled that off. Boy, was I a stupid mo'fo back in my younger days.

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            • #7
              Re: The Scariest Thing That Didn't Happen

              Where in Myrtle Beach? What's the name of the clubs? I was here before much was paved but much is still not paved. Myrtle Beach is very grown up but you don't have to go far to find the dirt roads. Have to know where you are going. Some clubs are fly by night, others have been here since the old days. I came here from Virginia on "Senior Week". Had a blast and soon came here to stay. A popular saying aroundhere is "come on vacation, stay on probation".
              Doesn't hurt that I'm in the golf business and this is the "Golf capitol of the world".

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              • #8
                Re: The Scariest Thing That Didn't Happen

                Neat story. Reminds me of something I wrote a while back.

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                • #9
                  Re: The Scariest Thing That Didn't Happen

                  Originally posted by FoFittyFoSS
                  Where in Myrtle Beach?
                  I will never have any idea, ever. It was away from the lights, I couldn't tell you north or south, or how far inland we were. I'll never have any idea how my buddy even knew about the place, let alone how to get there.
                  Charter member of the Turd Nuggets

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