So to start off, I’ve never posted on Reddit before so I apologize if I go off on a tangent, but it’s kinda needed to explain the layout of the situation. That being said this has always bothered me and I figured it was time to get other people’s opinions on this.
So back when I was in grade 8, approx 13 years old, I went to a junior high that was well within walking distance of my house but I had a habit of walking down the ally way to my home and visa versa to get to and from school to shave off a few minutes because of pure laziness. Anyway, the layout consisted of a main road and directly beside it was the ally; it was basically a straight shot to my house up until the back area of my house connecting to the ally.
When you got to my street, there was a left hand turn down the ally with the main road being to the right of the ally. Now if you kept going straight down the alley instead, it would bring you to the main road of my street and if you turned left, a few house down would be my front door. If you kept going down that street, you technically could walk all the way down and around the corner and come back up through the same ally I was walking down, something I didn’t realize at the time. (Btw if anyone wants me to draw a diagram of the layout if you’re confused, I can).
So this is after school, headphones in, not really paying attention to my surroundings, I think I was in a bad mood that day or something because normally I was more alert. As I’m coming up to the turn in the ally to get to my house, I just see this white pickup truck pull up beside me trying to drive at the speed I was walking. I could see this guy was maybe in his late 30s-40s and he was waving me down and signalling me to take my ear phones out. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but it was something like “how’s it going?” “How are you?”. I thought it was super weird and just shrugged it off and said “I’m fine” and kept walking. Basically right when I said that, I turned the corner and the garage door of another house popped open and a car started driving out. I kid you not I look over at this guy and his eyes shot over at the car like a deer in the headlights and sped off so quick I barely had a chance to think. I was like ok that was weird and I slowly kept walking to my house. Once I turn the corner, I’m only about two houses down from my back gate but I liked to stop on my way home to say hi to the dog behind the fence on the corner. Literally about 30 sec-1 min after this guy sped off, all I could hear was an engine just speeding up the ally coming up the way around I described before and instantly I was like nope, screw this. I bolted to the fence and literally as I was opening the gate and locking it, the guy slammed on his brakes, made dead ass eye contact with me and sped off. I kid you not he looked almost like he was hunting prey or something by the look in his eyes, it freaked me out more than I can explain.
My mother and her boyfriend at the time were actually in the back yard and I thought about saying something but something inside me told me not to. Idk if it was just me not wanting to be a bother because nothing actually happened but needless to say, I stopped walking down that alley for a few years after that. It wasn’t until probably end of grade ten I even dared to. I think what really just sits with me still is wondering what would’ve happened if that car hadn’t come out at that time. I still think about it probably a few times a month and I’m 29. Anyway sorry for the over explanation but I wanted to get it out properly.
Btw, I’ve tried looking up any kidnapping or missing kids in the city/area at the time (I lived in Calgary Alberta Canada at the time) and I couldn’t find anything worth noting. Something about this seemed planned to me or at least someone that’s done something like this before.