[Music] this was a story I grew up hearing my mom telling me I was really young when it happened and I know for a fact it was before I was 5 I only have some foggy memory of the event especially because my mom at the time didn't want to freak me out some context first we have family all over the country I remember spending so much with my childood just on road trips from state to state to visit family so we know our ins and outs on traveling two when I was a child I would
randomly hug strangers and tell them that I love them I was so filled with joy and love that it just spilled over onto other people there was basically only one stranger I never immediately lashed on to the second I saw them and this is that story so my mom was taking me to visit some relatives while my dad was staying at home with my brothers she had to go house hit and in general is a better caretaker of me than my father so it made sense that I went with her we were driving for hours
until we finally hit a rest stop and got out to use the restroom now there was already this guy in the parking lot and according to my mom it looked like he was watching everyone who was entering and leaving the rest stop second we got out of the car he did too my mom held my hand as we went into the restroom but immediately picked up on the fact I let go of her hand to hold her other hand the side of her away from the man now looking back she told me that it was
clear somewhere in my tiny child brain that I picked up some sign of danger because I avoided the man as much as I could and I would Quicken my Pace to the restroom and car I never did that with another stranger ever again I had never blatantly avoided another adult like that anyways we do our business and head back to the car and the man had gone back to his car and watched us leave only to then follow us in his own car my mom immediately realized what was going on and tried to shake him
off on the highway he wouldn't budge and try to get as close as he could apparently while doing this semi-truck driver noticed how frantic and how off she was driving and could see her looking back at his car he realized what was going on and drove up to her side and kind of made eye contact with her and they were on the same page from then on out turns out the driver called up on his radio to other truckers and told him what was going on and a bunch of drivers from different routes nearby came
onto the same Highway we were traveling on a few minutes later they began blocking out the guy's car and essentially trapping him away from my mother and I as she turned on to an to get off the highway to another rest stop he got out and talked to my mom and told her he picked up what was happening asked us if we were okay and drove us to a Burger King and got us something to eat we talked and he followed us back onto the road until eventually we went our separate routes so to the
guy who probably was going to try to kidnap my mom and me let's not meet and to the truck driver who probably saved Our Lives thank you I recently ran into an old coworker at the sandwich shop in the truck stop we chatted for a while before he had to leave but I started thinking about my stent to that place specifically the creepy sandwich guy in college I worked some overnights to the truck stop it was a pretty safe place in a smaller town and there had only been three incidents in the four years the
place had been open before I got hired in one trucker got robbed one group of ladies arrested for servicing the truck ERS and 10 OD I was never really worried even though my co-workers seemed a little concerned that I was a young girl working overnight at a truck stop when there was only one other employee in the whole place usually it was really slow most of the time I'd give three or four Truckers coming in within the first hour a couple people came in with the munchies and ordered three dozen cookies one time but usually
it was maybe one or two people an hour if that so I'd spend about 3 hours cleaning ovens finishing dishes deep cleaning the lobby that kind of thing and then I get to spend whatever time between customers doing homework a few weeks before I inevitably left this place a guy came in about 20 minutes before my shift was over so it's about 5:00 a.m. by this point my coworker had arrived early so we could fill out some paperwork he had to get done so he was sitting in the back office already I started making this
customer sandwich making chitchat like usual nothing seemed out of the ordinary he told me he was driving from New York to Wisconsin and asked me a little bit about how my night had been I wrapped up his sub rang it up and threw in a small discount for him since he seemed nice and I was just happy I was getting ready to go home for a few hours of sleep before I headed to campus when I went to take his change things went wrong he dropped the coins in my hand but suddenly he had his
grip tight around my wrist the next thing I knew I'm on the other side of the counter on the floor he had yanked me across the counter and still had a tight grip on my wrist thankfully my coworker was there manager on the other side had slipped into the bathroom so to this guy's knowledge I was the only one there at the moment but my coworker while filling out his papers was looking at the cameras and had seen everything he was out of the back just seconds after I hit the ground and before I really
knew what was going on he had chased the guy outside he didn't pursue him far afraid that someone else was nearby who would come after me so he ran back inside locked the door to our side of the store and shouted for the manager to call the police the cops came and they searched the area and watched the security videos but nothing ever came from it the guy disappeared and I never heard anything about him I put on my 2 weeks notice the following day after my nerves calmed down I was switched around so I
worked during the day around my classes for the last few days and they made it a policy that two people were to be working both sides of the truck stop on overnights from that point on I still live about a half an hour from there and honestly I haven't went back since my last day just because that memory is still in my mind almost 8 years later being a young woman in a nearly exclusively male dominant industry I have plenty of stories about Creepers I've encountered over the years this particular story about this one creep
is likely the worst yet at the time I was working for a steel pipe processing plant as a receiver trucks with 40ft long pipes would come in and it was my job to offload them with a giant forklift first though I had to collect the B from the driver b stands for of lighting it's a shipping document that has information about what's on the load where it's going where it's from Etc so I would retrieve the B from the trucker and I would compare the sheet to the cargo and sign off on it if everything
checks out I would see a lot of the same drivers on a regular basis I often got a lot of joking comments about how I look too young to be driving a machine that size a few of them asked me out but I'm married and most of the guys respected that so when I encountered a new driver from one of the trucking companies it really didn't surprise me when one of the very first if not the first thing he said to me was how old are you 23 I replied with a half-hearted chuckle are you
married I'm engaged so pretty much I replied starting to get reasonably uneasy about this guy not wanting to make small talk or answer any more increasingly personal questions from this guy I just met I asked him for the B anything for you sexy girl he said uh excuse me what did you just call me it's really sex to see a girl like you driving a big truck he said now I'm a bit of a hotthead and I need to stand up for myself in situations like this or else I risk becoming a Welcome Matt for
this kind of attention he hands me the paperwork with the trademark creepy grin like he was getting off on the fact that I was within grabbing distance from him listen old man as I snatched the paperwork out of his hand I do not come to work to be spoken to like that I'm here for a paycheck not a date what it was just a compliment don't be like that sexy girl don't call me or say anything to me that you wouldn't say to any of my male co-workers I have a name and it's not smart
to talk to anyone like that before you know what it is I bet it's he said I signed off on his dropped his copy in the mud and went over to the other driver waiting in line took his paperwork and made the creeper wait about 30 minutes off flating two other trucks before I got to his we have a safety rule that the driver must be inside the truck while it's being offloaded so I took this opportunity to be a bigger laid on the Horn of my truck and angrily yelled at him saying get in
your truck after I offloaded him I went to my supervisor and told him what happen not a formal complaint but to make him aware of everything that transpired and to let him know that the driver might end up complaining to his superiors about how long it took me to see him my supervisor sided with me he knows that if I lost my on someone they probably deserved it he knew about a few other incidents prior so he was supportive he told me to report anything else the guy does that's up and said he'd be willing
to send someone else over to deal with that particular driver if and when he brought another load later on that day he made a funny comment about how sexy I looked in my uniform oversized overalls grease stained hoodie boots and hard hat I didn't wear makeup or perfume to work I looked like and was mistaken for one of the guys on a few other occasions so the creep must have been thinking oh my God a girl I must say some nasty anyway I thought I made things pretty clear to the creeper and that he wasn't
going to bother me anymore nevertheless I wasn't keen on the idea of having to walk up to his cab to get paperwork from him again the next day guess who shows up with a new load I call over the radio my favorite driver is here can someone grab his paperwork couple minutes go by and one of the co-workers I get along with well drives up in his smaller Tow Motor to approach the driver for his BL I wait off to the side and take the opportunity to have a smoke next to my machine while I
wait for my coworker to come back with the paperwork he comes back and of course wants to scoop on everything that happened the day before I guess the driver asked why I wasn't there to collect the B A cooworker told him I was busy meanwhile I was having a smoke and clear view in no hurry to offload the I told the coworker what transpired when suddenly my coworker interrupted me um don't look but I think he's taking pictures of you of course my head whipped around and sure enough this guy was holding up his phone
pointing it at me taking pictures I assume I scurried up up into my machine and got on the radio for my supervisor and said my favorite driver is taking pictures of me now 104 I'll call security do not offload him given the nature of what we do and why we do it there are strict security guidelines at this place once a month we had bomb sniffer dogs inspect the property so it was that big of a deal so even if he wasn't taking pictures of me he had no business taking pictures on the property security
shows up and I watch as the driver hands him his phone my coworker was there with him and later told me that the guy said he was just trying out his new phone but whatever they didn't find photos of me or their property on his phone but he had a few minutes to delete them either way he was banned from the property and my supervisor reported him and what had happened the day before to the driver's employer I never saw him again but the story doesn't end there a few weeks later another driver from the
same company a nice guy that I had good rapport with filled me in on my favorite driver your bu got canned huh oh that's too bad I'm going to miss him yeah he was on thin ni because the girls in the office were getting weird vibes from him always hanging around the office way more than necessary nothing to fire him over though but his police check came in turns out he has prior sexual assault on his record oh that's lovely I'm a long haul trucker I've seen deal deal with a lot of weird and scary
stuff I was traveling up us93 in Nevada heading to Portland Oregon for a delivery it was around 1:30 in the morning and I need to stop and log my half hour break I found a wide spot and pulled off did my log ups and made myself a sandwich while I was eating set sandwich I noticed a vehicle pulling behind me I didn't get too concerned about it but kept one eye on it while I ate then it got strange I noticed a figure in the headlight of the vehicle approached the back driver of my trailer
stop and looked like he or she was rubbing the backside of my trailer with his or her hands suspicious I got the pistol out of my lock box back on my sleeper cocked it and locked it slid it behind my waistband and proceeded to climb out of my rig I walked about 10 ft back catch my hand on the butt of my pistol you flicked my flashlight on and aimed it at the person it was a man weird looking fellow in a dirty whitish trench coat long straggly hair and bald on top he was rubbing
something on the side of my trailer I hollered at him to stop what he was doing he looked up at me smirked and without turning his gaze off of me starts walking towards me I back my way to my door keeping my hand on my pistol but not pulling it out I didn't feel like my life was in danger at the time opened my door climbed into my rig shut the door and locked it the dude walks up by my door looks up at me still smirking I'm thinking what the this dude is off of
his rockers I'm thinking might have half hour break is over and it's time to go however while I'm looking down at him and getting ready to turn the key I feel my truck Rock I jump and look at my driver's side mirror nothing I look over to check my passenger side mirror and there on I step face pressed to my passenger side window is a freaky perfect replica of an old witch smiling rotten teeth cocking her head left then right fogging out my window needless to say I about sucked my seat up my ass but
that's not the end of it the dude then jumps on my driver's side step and then proceeds to start licking my window then the witch lady starts smacking my window with the palm of her hands over and over the dude start telling me to open up hey hey boy open up come on now open up we are friendly what you got on this trailer of yours anything good open up boy now I felt threatened I pulled down my pistol and the chick immediately disappears off my passenger side step the dude laughs jumps up and down
on my step then grins touches his finger to his nose then jumps off my step I fired my truck up and took the hell off I never did see any headlights following me though
