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hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

OK....now let's hear the driver's version.

Kwangjuchicken · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:10 am Post subject:

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Kwangjuchicken,
Thank you for letting us know your experience. I hope you have recovered from the experience. Perhaps, you learned to be a little more careful. We should all be careful.

Rule: Do not accept rides from strangers or new acquaintances.

INCREASE YOUR PERSONAL SECURITY WHILE TRAVELING...
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seattlight · Joined: 02 Oct 2004

Thanks for sharing your story. I'll think twice before accepting rides now...as I have done as you described many times before (luckily for me happy endings and only good, or at minimum, choppy & fun charade type conversation along the way).

It's easy to be trusting here because so few stories suggest reason to feel otherwise....but it is smart to keep our wits about us. Glad your story ended okay Smile

Take care everyone ~C

The Cube · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

shortskirt_longjacket · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:56 am Post subject:

i'm wondering why anyone, anywhere in the world would accept a ride from a stranger.

this is something you learn when you're in second grade: don't take candy from strangers. don't get in strangers' cars.

shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

I have felt paranoid a couple of times when in the car with some Korean strangers. Glad you made it out safely.

J.B. Clamence · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

casey's moon · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: Daejeon

waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

I was waiting for the punch line... glad to hear you escaped unharmed and a little wiser.

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Weird, hope you calm down to a speedy recovery.

I was treeplanting in Canada driving the van across the vast, treed, no-man's land of loggers and logging and picked up hitchhikers (I was living a sort of everyman/Johny Appleseed existence). One guy talked about how his ex-girlfriend still has one of his swords (he collects swords) out of spite. In her room she has a net motif, like a big spider web, the 'I'm the blackwidow and you're my date and this is the bed' style. How he wants his sword back. We get to a town, I want to check the Sally Ann for old clothes to treeplant in. Notice he's hanging around the van and go back and lock the doors.

Another time a guy was talking about killing rattlesnakes and eating them, his gf and so on, and the whole time I felt him thinking about my wallet.

One time in Thailand this guy starts walking alongside, telling me I look strong, like a b-ball player. And how he works at the University. He had very good English like the guy in your sinister 'joy ride'. He wasn't, he was a con man. He talked too much too fast working to make me 'at ease'. I figured he was from the start because I'd met a guy from Oz who was slipped a mickey. They all played cards and he 'lost'. They helped him stagger to the bank, to withdraw all his money after he signed all his traveller's cheques. It took him three days to piece together what had happened.

There's a dark side to life some deviants live in. Shocked

Not me, though Smile

Hopefully not you, either.

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

once upon a time... i regarded koreans as full of drama, but short on performance......

...times are a changin here.

ajstew · Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Location: Korea

So you're close to the destination... then he turns around and begins to go in the other direction. Surely at that moment, you said something like... "where are we going"... or "This is fine, thanks."... or "That's great"... to give him the hint you want out?

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Man, I just read this story after watching "Pulp Fiction" again.

All I could think of Kwangju was, "Let's get the Gimp!"