Kinsey went to a friends sweet 16 birthday party tonight.  The party was held at a house in a part of the county that I am not very familiar with.  Its fairly rural and not well lit.  On our way to drop her off we ran into another parent taking their daughter and he offered to take K with him so we didn’t have to go out.  And so when it came time to head to the party to pick K and her friend up I had to google map the house for directions.  I ended up pulling over thinking I had gone too far and calling onstar for assistance.  Onstar (we were in Todd’s SUV) then led us (Todd, Sydney, Tatie and I) into the neighborhood we needed and right into the drive way.

We called K and told her we were there and to come on out.  And then we waited.  Do you ever get that feeling… you know the feeling when you just know you are not in the right place?  Well just as I was getting that feeling a car pulled up to the corner of the road.  I could see it sitting there in my rear view mirror for a minute…just idling.   And then it turned and pulled along the road in front of the same house we were at and stopped.  I thought, “Oh, we are in the right place, someone else is here to pick up their kid.”

And thats when the phone rang and K said, “MOM! You are are at the wrong house! We are in the drive way and you are not here!”  We got the right house number and I put the car in reverse.  When I got almost all the way out into the road the car that had been sitting there on the curb swerved out and blared its horn!  Well its dark and I am in a big car compared to their little silver sedan so I just ignored it and finished backing out.  But as I finished backing out and put the car into drive the car tries to pull around on the right side!  But backs off quickly when I cut off the route and straighten out and begin to drive.  And thats when it started tailing us.  TAILING US! Not KIDDING!

The idiot rode my bumper to the stop sign where there were no street signs and I guess left!  I was trying really hard to read mailbox numbers as I drove but they were hard to make out … not to mention with the added stress of being tailed!  I got to another stop sign and realized that I had turned the wrong way, so I circled back around to where I made the last turn.  All the while this car was about a foot from my bumper!

I got back to the stop sign again and this time turned right and there were Kinsey and her friend waiting for us in the drive way.  I pulled in and got out of the car and noticed that my stalker was watching me from the street corner I had just turned from!  Just sitting there idling!  I barked at the girls to get in the car quickly while I stood in front of my SUV headlights and glared at the waiting car on the corner.

After everyone was in, K said, “Is that car following us?”  Indeed it was!  I backed out of the drive way and went back the way I came, this time passing the car at the corner going the opposite direction.   I had the opportunity to glance in the car.  It was a woman, maybe mid 30’s/early 40’s holding a lit up cell phone.  I gave her my ‘you are crazy look’ and drove on my way…

Well as we round corner to get the the main road who do you think is stopped there watching us again!!!   To have driven all the way around the circle in time to beat us to the intersection coming the other direction… CREEPY!

Well that is where our story ends. Our stalker just sat there and waited until we drove out of sight.

But as we thought about it on the way home her story must have been something like this…

I got home from a lovely night out with the girls (probably had a few) and when I pull up to my house there is this big black creepy SUV sitting in my driveway!!!  Well I don’t waste any time I call my girlfriend and ask her what to do!  She tells me to go see if I know who it is!  But just as I am pulling up the SUV starts backing out of the drive way!  I knew it was creepy!  So I tailed it!  No way this guy is robbing my neighborhood, I am going to show him we are watching!

The guy is sure driving awfully slow, and keeps slowing down every time he gets to a mail box.  I bet he is looking for another house to rob!

OH NO!  There are young girls out in that drive way and he just kid napped them!!!!  I am calling the police!  Oh crap… they see me I better race to the intersection so I can get there licence plate number in case they come back!

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And so friends and neighbors, if tomorrow I get a knock at the door from the cops wanting to question me about my whereabouts from the night before… you will know why.  It will be because I was stalked my some maniac road rager for accidentally pulling in the wrong driveway and some mentally challenged lady tried to catch a wouldbe kidnapper.  Oy.  Oh what a night.

P.S. Kinsey had a great time at the party.

P.S.S Thank you Onstar. not.

P.S.S.S Do you think I would have gotten the same reaction had I been in my volvo?

P.S.S.S.S I am glad Todd was with me, If I had been by myself I probably would have mouthed off at her and gotten shot.

P.S.S.S.S.S If cops do knock on my door I am going to have trouble speaking for laughing so hard!

P.S.S.S.S.S.S Appearently the girls think it would be pretty amusing to see their Mom cuffed.  O_O

P.S.S.S.S.S.S.S They say it would make a good personal narrative for school!  Is that all I am to them??? Story fodder???

P.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S I am going to bed… ! need a nap! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz