okay, so i've had about 12 hours to mull it over, and sleep on it. now the rest of you can affirm the mistakes i made and maybe point out the ones i didnt notice.
approx 7:40 pm
i'm walking home, taking side streets because alaskan drivers never look for pedestrians. on my left i'm coming towards the backside of a chevron station, and i see a truck pull up and park, between me and the station. the passenger steps out, leaves the door open and walks around to the front of the station. i keep walking behind the station, and when i'm about to clear the other side, covering a distance of half a block, the passenger that stepped out didnt go into the station as i figured, but was walking on an intercept path towards me. about 15 yards.
i glance behind me and see the truck he exited from had pulled slowly behind us. the passenger sees him, and starts yelling 'What the hell are you doing?' at the driver. he has a few words with the driver, and the driver pulls away and makes a right at the intersection i'm approaching. the truck had a 2nd passenger, a female, all i know about the driver is that it was a guy.
the passenger that exited then starts calling after me, telling me to 'hold up!' i dont recognize him so i dont stop. he catches up to me, and i'm in an awkward place, trying to cross the street but theres traffic, nowhere to move my fatass quickly towards, no real cover.
oh yeah, almost forgot. when the truck pulled behind me is when the 'spideysense' started geeking. at that moment i slipped my hand onto the grips of my gun. doubt that the average joe would realize what i was doing, but any one of us would instantly know i had my hand on something defensive.
i keep as much distance as possible between me and the passenger, but hes closing it quickly. so i walk halfway across spenard to the median and he follows. i cant cross all the way over because of traffic. i keep backing up and the guy is continuing to tell me to 'hold up buddy! i just want to talk!'
he asks me "are you Lopez?' i tell him 'no. leave me alone.'
"awww come on, i just want to touch your hand buddy, let me just do that'.
hes now within 10 feet of me. i hold up my left hand and tell him to 'back off!' he doesnt, and the spideysense is now a napalm laying ************.
i tell him 'dude, you're making me nervous here, just back the **** off, i dont know you, dont have time for you, leave me alone!'
and he keeps on with his 'i just want to touch your hand buddy'. traffics clear, so i turn to cross the rest of the street, and he reaches out and jabs towards my right hand that is still gripping the kimber. as he hits the butt of the gun he says 'BAMM!' (maybe he was emulating Emeril?), and then runs back across the street.
when he jabbed at my hand i yelled out HEYYY! and turned back towards him.
i watched him continue walking west on spenard for a minute before heading to my home, rubbernecking behind me the whole way. when i'm about 75 yards from my front door, i notice the same truck the passenger got out of was making a u-turn a the three-way stop at the end of my street. someone in the truck yells something out towards me, couldnt tell what it was.
ken suggested i call the police, and after a few moments rethinking the situation, i did just that. an officer came out and took a report on it, both the dispatcher i talked to on the non-emergency line and the officer who talked with me agreed it was very suspicious.
a small part of my mind thinks the guy could have just been friendly and wanted to shake someones hand or whatever. but my spideysense knows better. and its telling me that the truck wasnt supposed to have pulled up so quickly. the passenger was going to do something to me and the truck was there for his quick getaway. thats my assumption, and the best possible explanation in my opinion.
so, tell me what i did wrong, and how i could avoid making those mistakes in the future.
I may have given a snide comment insinuating that he'd get more than just a hand, and leave the rest up to his imagination.