r/Letsnotmeet I Was Almost KIDNAPPED!!

welcome to our slash let's not meet we're a woman and her young daughters almost get abducted so this happened about five years ago while I was nine months pregnant I was Christmas shopping at the mall with my then seven and fifteen year old daughters one Saturday night in a very safe city with very low crime rates there was an Applebee's connected to the mall and we ended our shopping pretty late and the mall stores were starting to close so I took my kids to the connected Applebee's for a late dinner we finish up eating at about 10:00 p.m. and leave out the Applebee's entrance into the practically deserted parking lot with shopping bags in tow as we got to the car I was in the middle of maneuvering the shopping bags on my arms to find my keys when a 50 year old crusty looking guy starts walking up from somewhere in the parking lot with shaggy gray white hair and a faded flannel shirt and old jeans I noticed him briskly approaching when he was about 40 feet away and he said this is a stick-up give me all your money my blood ran cold and I stared at him how lessly and shaking Lee said what he then said he was just kidding and came up and stood right next to my daughters who were standing on the other side of the car waiting for me to unlock the car to let them in he starts making small talk with me and my girls he's asking things like if they were being good girls for Santa how old they were if we got all our Christmas shopping done what kind of things did we get etc he didn't seem drunk high slow or mentally challenged at all he was very coherent and seemed of sound mind mind you I was a heavily pregnant woman alone with my two daughters and a mostly deserted parking lot at 10 o'clock at night who was being approached by a stranger who came and stood right next to my kids on the other side of the car just shooting the breeze talking to me and my kids with his hands in his pockets and occasionally looking over his shoulder I didn't want to aggravate him so I was politely conversing with him and trying to look calm and nonchalant while trying to disguise my frantic hands to inside my giant purse for my car keys this exchange went on for a couple minutes while he periodically kept looking over his shoulder I was silently panicking and trying to politely keep the situation from escalating by calmly and nonchalantly talking to him while also trying in vain to find my freaking car keys to get us out of there they were in there hiding good I felt that at any moment he was going to pull a knife or gun or robbed me and my kids were right next to him away from their mother on the other side of the car and I couldn't find my freaking car keys to get my kids into the safety of the car he kept trying to engage them in conversation and I could see that my oldest daughter was a little weirded out and she kept glancing at me to gauge my assessment and reaction to this situation kids often tend to not recognize potential danger when they're with their parents since they see us as their protectors and being that he was only talking and acting friendly and I was doing my best to stay calm they were oblivious to the alarming situation we all were in and being nine months pregnant and that I was no match for this full-grown man especially if he was hiding a weapon on him while still desperately digging for my keys I tried to politely give him hints that the conversation was over by saying things like it was nice chatting with you but I gotta get these kids to bed and it was nice meeting you and telling my girls to say that it was nice meeting him to my polite attempts to get this guy to leave weren't working because he kept sidestepping my attempts and asking them what their favorite school subjects are and how nice young ladies they were etc while I was struggling with the shopping bags and digging in my giant cluttered purse for the car keys my outgoing seven-year-old was completely oblivious to how not okay the situation was because he was being friendly and because of the whole I'm with mommy so I'm saved child mentality so she started to talk about what she picked out for daddy for Christmas and started enthusiastically talking about kid stuff and asking him if he knew what minecraft was etc and keeping this creep from leaving us alone by keeping him engaged in conversation they didn't realize that I was becoming desperate to get them the heck out of there then I suddenly felt this sinking feeling of dread when I realized that I may have lost my keys in the mall and that we were stuck outside with this strange man who kept looking over his shoulders and was showing no signs of walking away and I was thinking that he was waiting for the perfect moment to pounce all he had to do was grab one of my girls and threaten their life knowing it would make me do whatever he wanted as long as he wouldn't hurt them I started to feel my adrenaline start to spike and my heart and stomach started doing flip-flops and I felt like at any moment stuff was going to go down as the gravity of realizing that there were no other people or witnesses around and that we were totally alone with him and at that moment the odds were stacked against us and that he has his chance then he all of a sudden was like okay it was nice talking with you see you later and walked off in the same direction from which he came it wasn't until then I found my car keys and unlocked the car and told my kids to get in fast and I got in to unlock the cars and started the car and drove the heck out of there my fifteen-year-old lightheartedly and jokingly said okay that was weird and laughed I was overwhelmed with relief and then I was confused over what just happened I thought to myself why the heck would a guy of seemingly sound mind think it totally acceptable to go out of his way just to approach a woman and her kids in a deserted parking lot late at night just to chitchat but being that nothing bad happened I brushed it off and joked about it to when we got home my husband greeted us and asked how the shopping win and I said it went well and my 15 year old told him what happened in the parking lot and how weird it was and was kind of just joking about it I started joking to saying how I was mentally having a panic attack while trying to look calm and I started making fun of myself by telling my husband how I was attempting to inconspicuously rummaged through my purse to find my car key my husband went completely white and I acknowledged his horrified look of alarm and I assured him that albeit creepy the guy was just talking and eventually left on his own now my father-in-law is a retired sheriff's deputy and my husband went through police academy training after graduating high school he decided to go to business school instead of becoming a cop and from the knowledge he gained from that plus growing up with a cop for a dad I found out why my husband looked absolutely horrified when I told him the details what my husband told me completely rattled me to the bone my husband told me that he was 100% sure that the reason why the guy was hanging around us and chit-chatting was because he was waiting for me to unlock my car and the reason why he was standing next to our kids was because once I unlock the car and the kids started to get inside he was most likely going to force himself into the car with the kids and hold a knife or gun to them to gain leverage on me to force me to cooperate knowing that I wouldn't abandon my kids which would forced me to get into the car with him and do whatever he wanted me to do which most likely would be to drive to a remote location to do god knows what and being that he wasn't wearing a mask suggested his intentions were to also leave no witnesses to identify him I then remembered that he was positioned by the backseat passenger door where my seven-year-old was standing by waiting to get in my husband then told me that the most likely reason why the guy ended up leaving was because it took so long for me to find my keys and the longer it took the more anxious and spooked it made him and that whole time I was desperate to find my car keys which through some sort of divine intervention stayed hidden in my purse thus saving us from potentially being abducted Opie I bet the reason why that guy said that this is a robbery and then came up to you and said it was a joke was because he thought you were about to open the car and then when he got closer he realized that you were still searching for his keys so that's he made that terribly creepy joke our next reddit post is from alcoholic cat lady for six months last year I lived in the north of Spain about a week before I was going to move back to Ireland my friend and I were at my house having dinner and drinking a little I was renting an apartment in the city and my roommate was an older lady maybe in her 50s I'm 20 that night my roommate left to go have dinner with her friends about a minute after she left someone buzzed our door to be let into the building I looked at the camera and didn't recognize the woman she looked to be in her late 20s to early 30s so I just assumed it was one of my roommates friends and she was coming to meet her or something like that I bust her into the building assuming they would meet in the lobby at first I didn't buzz her in because I didn't recognize her and she walked away from the door but then I hit the buzzer as soon as she walked away and then I myself walked away from the camera meaning I couldn't see if she actually entered or not assuming that if she did enter she would just call or text my roommate boy was I wrong this woman came up to my apartment building on this sixth floor she came up just two minutes after my roommate left so I know she didn't take the stairs and I know they must have seen each other when my roommate got off the lift and the lady got in realizing that this is weird I do not open the door when she rings it I looked through the peephole just to confirm that it was nobody I knew at this point I back away from the door and gesture for my friend to be silent we creep back to my room which is at the far side of the apartment and I begin calling my roommate who isn't picking up meanwhile the lady is incessantly ringing my door my roommate isn't picking up and my friend is just telling me to open my door in her mind it's a woman so she must be harmless I tell her she's an idiot for under estimating the female sex women can be criminals too she keeps telling me to open the door and I refuse the door keeps ringing I keep looking out the people at this point I understand that if she knew my roommate or was looking for someone specific she would just call or text them she didn't take out a phone at all she just stayed eerily silent didn't call out any names or asked if anyone was home this was weird to me I finally get through to my roommate she says she wasn't expecting anyone and that she doesn't know anyone in that age range she asked if I'm okay and I say I'm fine now it's been at least 20 minutes I know that lady knows someone is home because the lights are on and my understanding is that's why she's not leaving I continue watching her through the people and see her going to the lift for a minute and then come back out again the lift is really loud and I would have heard it move it didn't she just went in and came out in my mind this means someone is in the lift waiting for her this screams sketchy to me after about 40 minutes she leaves I run to our hall and flick on the outside camera the lady left the building with two men they all had backpacks on I will be eternally grateful for trusting my instincts and not listening to my friend sometimes it's better to be safe than sorry creepy lady with henchmen let's not meet again what I want to know is if the backpacks looked full or empty if they looked empty then it was probably just a robbery if they looked full that means they probably had stuff like duct tape rope weapons that would have been a lot worse also my theory for why she was ringing the door but staying silent is that if she was yelling it would have attracted the attention of neighbors but neighbors can't hear the doorbell so that was her way to accost you with how drawing attention super sketchy our next reddit post is from cache the quick my name is Corey with an I not Corey with a Y or Corey with an ey Corey with an I a usually feminine spelling of a name for a guy not that I mind much of the spelling or so on of what my parents gave me a few years ago I had just been let go from my first job out of college it had been pretty good money but the company went under so I started applying to every job I could find you do indeed monster even Craigslist one Craigslist job in particular was based on the outskirts of the city I lived but I was ready to take anything the job in question was some basic data entry and assistant work at least that had been what the job listing said I thought it was on the up-and-up however because this was one of the few Craigslist postings that had a website attached to it it was a pretty basic website in retrospect but the company message seemed to make it sound like they were heavily about serving the city and facilitating volunteer work within minutes of applying I got a response inviting me for an interview that same day though it titled me as a miss quarry I was going to respond to correct them but it read that it was an automated response so there would be no one to read it I figured I just have to correct them once I got there and again didn't seem like a big deal I've gotten this once or twice before I drove to the location the company website was listed and it didn't seem too out of the ordinary it was the second floor of a small building that was sandwiched in between a pawn shop and a phone store I didn't think too much of it because this was a big city and even if this is on the outskirts of the city a job as a job I looked up to the second floor of the outside and saw something looking down at me I couldn't make out the face but it was a person that much I'm sure of I went inside of the building and took the elevator up to the second floor and didn't find a single soul it looked like a half-finished office floor from what I remember with some doors opened and some locks shut but there was simply no one to speak to no one to inform that I was here there was one cubicle but one of the detachable walls had been left in another office room there was a computer monitor in one room but no desktop attached to it a half-finished company banner and a bookcase on closer inspection of the bookcase all the books weren't books at all but a cardboard printing of a bunch of books act together I finally had too much and called the phone number that had been on the website but I heard no phone ringing from where I stood more so the phone I called seemed to cut my call off after a ring and a half sending me straight to voicemail sufficiently creeped out by now or wondering if I had stumbled on something I shouldn't have I took the elevator down as the elevator door closed I heard someone muttering angrily I thought that was a girl's name I didn't want to stay to find out who said that instead I walked right back to my car and drove back home not even daring to look back up at the window of the floor I was sure I'd been scheduled for that very evening out of morbid curiosity I checked Craigslist the posting was gone I looked for the web site it had been disabled to this day I still wonder what or who did I stumble on my greatest regret is not calling the police about this here's an even creepier detail that you might not have noticed the email referred to Opie as miss Cory but Opie also said that it was an automated email there's no reason an automated email would call Opie miss Cory unless he had entered in his information that way that means a real person wrote that email and wrote it to make it look like an automated email that was our slash let's not meet and if you want to scare off potential predators be sure to wear official our slash merchandise you can find a link to the store down in the description

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Published: Fri Sep 06 2019