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   Boots Chantilly (bootschantilly@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 10:24:56 JST Boots Chantilly

   WELL, I’VE HAD A DAY, a thread …

   Today, I had to make a run to the dope hut, which has no real parking—you just have to pull off the road & park nose-in against a chain link fence. I do so, & I grab my bag & my keys, & as I start to open my door, I see something big & dark moving fast from the left rear of my car. I pull the door closed & hit the lock & see that it’s a man. He’s wearing a black basketball jersey & has clearly been living rough. 1/

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     Boots Chantilly (bootschantilly@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 10:24:52 JST Boots Chantilly

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     The guy who was behind the Bimmer stops on the left & runs to see if he’s OK. He is. & finally, the cop comes back , parks in the median, & gets out. As I start to pull away to continue on home, David Bowie’s Somebody Up There Likes Me starts playing on the stereo.

     & now I’m safely on our sofa, eating a pecan Snickers, about to swallow a gummie. /fin

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     Boots Chantilly (bootschantilly@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 10:24:53 JST Boots Chantilly

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     I enter the highway behind a speeding 18-wheeler, in front of a Bimmer coming up fast. About a quarter of a mile down the road, there’s another entrance ramp onto the highway, & a small silver car & a black & white are about to try to merge in. The 18-wheeler brakes. He wants to move to the left, but the Bimmer is, by now, in the fast lane passing him. & gets knocked into the highway median by the big rig. I stop on the right. The truck stops on the right up ahead. 4/

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     Boots Chantilly (bootschantilly@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 10:24:54 JST Boots Chantilly

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     So I watch him. & I wait. When the FOUR SUVs OF SHERIFFS (srsly?) arrive, I stay. They put the man in the back of 1 of the SUVs & there’s talking. I know how to talk to cops—both my fathers (bio & adoptive), my brothers (bio & adoptive), my uncles, my cousins, etc. were/are LEOs. I decide I’m not leaving until an ambulance is called out. When the ambulance comes, I finally run in & out of the dispensary & get back on the 2-lane highway (2 blocks away) to go home. 3/

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     Boots Chantilly (bootschantilly@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 10:24:55 JST Boots Chantilly

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     He puts his face close to the window & starts screaming. Calling me names, raising his arms, shaking his fists. “GET OUT OF THE CAR, YOU DUMB BITCH!” I just sit there, trying to come up w/ an escape plan. There’s a road full of 50mph traffic behind me, & in front of me, a construction fence. No other ppl. I don’t want to call 911, but after a few min, I do. Once he sees that I’m on my phone, he kind of steps back a bit. Now he’s screaming & rage laughing & reaching toward the sky. 2/