Late night attack

It was a late Thursday night, and I was soon to get ready to go to bed. I was lying down in the sofa watching a program on the TV, and my dog kept nagging me that he wanted to go out by walking back and forth between me and the door and putting his paw on my foot. I was so tired, but decided I had to go for a small walk with him. Hubby was sleeping, and when he is sleeping, he is not to be disturbed. First of all it's impossible to wake him, secondly if you do succeed, he might slap you on his way out of dreamland. Unknowingly of course.

I live right next to a big park. Beautiful park, but it's not so friendly at night. Quite empty, allthough there is usually other dog-walkers out and about. This was about 11.30 PM though, so it was deserted. As I said in my last post I am easily scared and always a little wary. Meaning, if I'm out alone in a deserted place at dark, I'll watch suspicious people in the corner of my eye to monitor their behavior in case there's something odd about them. Especially around this park because I once walked through the woods that separates one part of the park from the other and found like 3 tons of condoms and ripped out porn magazine pages. Nice stuff.

At night I never really go into the park much, I stay close to the entrance and just let my dog sniff around and take a piss (lol).
So, I started walking up from my house and up the sidewalk towards the entrance of the park. My dog wasn't on the leash, I can still control him and he likes it better like that. Easy at night too.
The whole street was deserted, but parallel to me on the opposite sidewalk there was a man. He had a weird walk, or limp I should say. But still walking quickly enough towards the park, just like me. I made sure he couldn't see me turning my head but I had my eye on him. He had a hat and it was dark so I couldn't see what he looked like esp. since it was on the other side of the street. I was asking myself "Why is he walking to the park? It's not like you can pass through to anywhere on the other side of the park. And he doesn't have a backpack or anything, so what is he doing out this late, trying to get into a dead-end park?". I didn't feel comfortable and walked a bit more slowly. He wasn't turning his head towards me or anything. Looked straight infront of himself. As I got towards the end of the street and the entrance of the park, suddenly, before I knew it, the man jumped out in the street and RAN towards me screaming!

It took me less than a second to react and start racing down the street. I ran as fast as I could. I sprinted. I passed my house - I figured it was too close and he could just follow me and get me before I managed to open the lock. I screamed for my dog to come with me without having the guts to turn my head and look back. I had a million thoughts in my head and feared for him. He knows how to defend himself but I was worried what this mad man would do to him. As I got to the end of the street, I ran around the corner and then a little bit more. I stopped and turned my head to see if he was still following me.


The man wasn't there.


My heart was throbbing, beating, pumping, POUNDING. I felt a lump in my throat and wanted to cry. Freneticly I picked my phone from my pocket and dialed my husbands number praying to GOD he would pick up and not be in too deep sleep to come out and get me. After a couple of rings he picked up and I didn't wait "SOMEONE IS FOLLOWING ME TRYING TO ATTACK ME!!!!!!"


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Him: "It wasn't until now I knew how fast you could run. DAYUMN!

WTF?
Him: "Babe it was me! Didn't you see that. I came out to meet the two of you and I was just trying to play with the dog when I jumped out in the street shouting. I thought you'd recognize me"

I started crying instantly as my fear left me. WHY did you do that! God.


This is not an April Fool's, but I was quite fooled so I guess this was a good day to post this story! Funny how, at least with me, if my brain doesn't expect something, I don't come anywhere near of thinking it. Meaning, my hubby had never before, never since, woken up from sleep and came outside. Never did I think it would be him. He wasn't wearing the clothes he usually wears either and it was dark, plus he was covered with a hat. The limp was explained by him walking trying to put on his shoe cuz it didn't fit right.
It took me 1 hour to get my heart rate back to normal.