I was sitting on the curb waiting for a ride. I hadn't had my car on the road in nearly five years. It was some how liberating and restricting all at once, but Ben didn't mind coming to get me when it was times like these. I was wearing some belled 'fat' pants and a hoodie that was bright orange. The brand name spewed across the front above the single pocket meant for both of your hands. Some combination of letters standing for something that was too cool for me to remember now nearly 8 years later. I had danced all night and sweat to my hearts content and not once taken off the eye catching sweater. At least six people had struck up conversation with me through the night, just because of this piece of clothing. But now with the sun being up for a couple hours and me sitting here on this curb in a small town I've never been in, I was getting hot. I took the sweater off to let my body breathe, and I exposed my San Quinten "jail house" rock shirt. I wrapped the sweater around my waist like it was the eighties and I stood up to do this. As I finished up the shirt sleeve cuff tuck at the front, I turned around. And when I turned around there was a large man standing only three feet from me. He had crossed the road as I was standing and was now only an arm short of reaching me. I was noticeably startled, as my nerves had been shot by a combination of no sleep and over indulgence the night before. I stopped breathing and stood as still as I could, playing possum in the street, almost literally. The rather large man with a leather jacket, some dark glasses, a shaved head and what appeared to be a thick chain in his hands, lifted his hand to my chest. I didn't know what was happening. Would I survive till Ben came to get me? Is this man going to hurt me? Did I just pee myself? He stuck his finger into my chest pointing at me, quite painfully, and he says; "My friend Steve went there once". I looked dumbly at him, not wanting to be rude I said back, "Oh yah?"
He exposed his messed up teeth and walks past me saying, "Oh yah and not on a tour either."
