We almost got RUN OVER
Okay, this is 100% true. I'm 23 now and this happened about 10 years ago so I was probably 13 or 14. Anyway, I used to skate(board) all the time with my friends Tim and Brandon. One day, we got done skating and we decided to go to 7/11 to get some food/drinks before we went home. Remember, I was only 13/14 so we weren't driving...We had skated to the 7/11 and were planning on skating/walking back home. Annnyway, we buy our drinks and we left the store. We walked to the parking lot's exit and prepared to cross the highway (it's not a bust highway, since it's a small town.) While we waited for the traffic light to turn red, so that we could cross, I looked behind me at the 7/11 gas pumps. I noticed a 40-50 year old man, pumping gas into his white truck. He stared at me and before I knew it, he dropped the gas pump and jumped into his truck. He slammed on the gas and sped straight at my friends and I. He missed us, but he grazed my arm and knocked my skateboard out of my hand. My friend, brandon, screamed, "Wtf! u fuckin dick!" as the man peeled out and sped into the parking lot next to 7/11. I swear to god, he drove through a ditch (which was between 7/11's parking lot and the parking lot he was in) and tried to run us over AGAIN. This is where it got bad. The 3 of us started running at full speed, across the highway and toward the local library, which is like 2-3 blocks from 7/11. When we were about 1/2 a block away, I looked back and saw the maniac speeding toward us, full of rage. Brandon and Tim ran up to the library doors and I ran towards the woods (It was Sunday so I knew the library was closed and there was a trail in the woods which led to my backyard.) Meanwhile, this maniac peeled into the parking lot and hopped out of his truck. I looked behind me, before escaping into the woods, and saw him grab either a shotgun or a crow bar (I was pretty far away at this point, and I was freakin out so my vision wasn't great) from the bed of his truck. I ran all the way home. When I got to my street, my neighbor (tim's dad) told me to get in his car because we had to go to the video store (which is where tim's mom worked.) When I got there, I found tim and brandon (they ran to the video store after realizing that the library was closed) and 3 cops. A minute later, my mom came in, crying her eyes out because Brandon and Tim told her they didn't know if I lived or not. Everyone had thought that I was captured. Tim told me that he saw the guy running after me, into the woods...Which is SCARY because I thought the maniac was chasing THEM, not me! Anyway, he was never caught..and I spent the next 5 years worrying about every white truck I saw. :(
My town is small, but it's not empty. There were PLENTY of people around, while this was going on. I felt so helpless, running for my life...while there were at least 100 people around, not doing a thing about it. Also, to be clear, we didn't provoke this man at all. He tried to hit us for no reason, and that's creepy. Brandon called him a dick, but that was after he tried to run us over. We were good kids, trying to walk home...and we almost died/got seriously hurt because of it. :O Also, bust highway= busy highway***