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7 MCDONALD_S HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: I used to work at a McDonald's when I was
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  Speaker 1: in high school. I'm a female and worked there for
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  Speaker 1: less than a year, but I have several stories of
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  Speaker 1: crazy experiences. One in particular happened about a month after
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  Speaker 1: I started working there. I was working behind the front counter,
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  Speaker 1: taking customers' orders. It was in the afternoon, probably at
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  Speaker 1: like 5 p.m. Usually, it was decently busy at this time,
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  Speaker 1: but would get crazier and crazier until about 7. There
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  Speaker 1: were a few people in line, and I took all
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  Speaker 1: of their orders. Then there was this one man who
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  Speaker 1: approached me at the counter. Instead of ordering food, he
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  Speaker 1: asked for my phone number. I was taken aback by this,
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  Speaker 1: but said no to the man. I did not want
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  Speaker 1: to give him my number at all. The man then
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  Speaker 1: just angrily walked off. He seemed to be really upset
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  Speaker 1: about it and didn't even order anything. Although I had
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  Speaker 1: only spoken with him and seen him for less than
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  Speaker 1: a minute, the guy seemed like a creep. I went
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  Speaker 1: on with work as things were pretty busy. For the
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  Speaker 1: next several hours, I was kept really busy and things
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  Speaker 1: finally started to quiet down a while later at like 8pm. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: there was no line of customers and things were calm.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I saw somebody walk in and noticed that
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  Speaker 1: it was the same man from before. He walked up
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  Speaker 1: to the counter again and I was a little bit nervous.
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  Speaker 1: The man then said sorry to me and apologized for earlier.
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  Speaker 1: I told him that it was alright and then asked
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  Speaker 1: if he would like to order some food.
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  Speaker 2: But he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He said that he didn't mean to get angry and
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  Speaker 1: walk away earlier, and then once again asked me for
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  Speaker 1: my number. I told him sorry but no. I said
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  Speaker 1: that I did not feel comfortable giving my number out.
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  Speaker 1: The man asked me to hang out with him and
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  Speaker 1: get to know him a bit. I told him no
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  Speaker 1: thanks and that I was busy working. He then asked
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  Speaker 1: me what time I got off. I just said later.
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  Speaker 1: The man then turned to looking very angry once again.
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  Speaker 1: He stormed out of the McDonald's, saying something under his
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  Speaker 1: breath that I couldn't make out. For the rest of
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  Speaker 1: my shift, I did not see him. I got off
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  Speaker 1: and went home. The next time that I worked was
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. I started during the busy afternoon and was
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  Speaker 1: once again working at the front counter. A couple of
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  Speaker 1: hours in, we were pretty busy when I happened to catch,
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  Speaker 1: out of the corner of my eye, the man again.
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  Speaker 1: He was entering, and I dreaded him getting in line
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  Speaker 1: and asking me for my number, but he didn't get
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  Speaker 1: in line. The man walked towards the back of the
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  Speaker 1: restaurant and just sat down at a table. I noticed
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  Speaker 1: him looking at me, and I looked away and focused
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  Speaker 1: on what I was doing. Like I said, things were
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  Speaker 1: pretty busy, so I easily distracted myself with taking customers' orders.
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  Speaker 1: And for the next few hours, I forgot about him.
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  Speaker 1: That is, until I looked up once and saw that
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  Speaker 1: he was still there. I was just hoping that he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't get in line to order. I continued work and
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  Speaker 1: did my best to ignore the man sitting there. A
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  Speaker 1: few more hours went by, and when I looked up again,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see him. He was finally gone. He also
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  Speaker 1: hadn't come up to order anything as I was working,
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  Speaker 1: which I was happy about. Things were quiet for the
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  Speaker 1: last hour or two, and then I was finally off.
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  Speaker 1: I clocked out and left the McDonald's for the night.
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  Speaker 1: It was dark out now, and I walked to my
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  Speaker 1: car in the parking lot. Not long after making it outside, though,
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  Speaker 1: I heard footsteps coming from the other direction. I looked
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  Speaker 1: over and saw the guy again. He was walking towards
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  Speaker 1: me at a fast pace. I turned and started running
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  Speaker 1: to my car. The man started running as well. I
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  Speaker 1: realized that I wasn't going to make it. When I
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  Speaker 1: got to my car, I quickly reached in my pocket
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  Speaker 1: for the pepper spray that I always kept on me.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the man reached me, I sprayed him
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  Speaker 1: right in the face. He moved back and grabbed at
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  Speaker 1: his eyes. This allowed me to easily get in my car.
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  Speaker 1: I called the police and then drove away. Long story short,
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  Speaker 1: I did not see the man again after that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: also really glad that I had my pepper spray on
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  Speaker 1: me that night. For some background on this story, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a female and live with my roommate in an apartment complex.
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  Speaker 1: We are both terrible at cooking and I order McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: all the time, probably way more than I should, but
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  Speaker 1: I like it so much. Plus, they're open really late
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  Speaker 1: at night and it's very convenient. I'm often up late
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  Speaker 1: from work as well. So there's something that happened like
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  Speaker 1: two months ago. Whenever I ordered McDonald's, I would use
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  Speaker 1: the mobile app and then go and pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: A few times I had it delivered, but most of
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  Speaker 1: the time I go get it. The McDonald's is only
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  Speaker 1: like a two or three minute drive from my place.
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  Speaker 1: I would say I get it like twice a week
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  Speaker 1: on average. One night, it was really late, like 11pm,
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  Speaker 1: and I ordered some food from McDonald's for my roommate
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  Speaker 1: and I. I use the app like always, and I
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  Speaker 1: get free stuff all the time because of it. So
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  Speaker 1: I left our place by myself, and I got to
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  Speaker 1: the McDonald's a short time later. It was very quiet,
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  Speaker 1: but there were a few other people there. After going inside,
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  Speaker 1: I made it to the shelf where they have mobile
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  Speaker 1: orders that you can pick up. I found my name
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  Speaker 1: and picked up the bag and then left. I drove
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  Speaker 1: back home, and after getting back in my place, opened
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  Speaker 1: it up. It had all of the food, but then
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  Speaker 1: had something else that was really strange. It was a
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  Speaker 1: note that was handwritten, and I had no clue why
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  Speaker 1: it was in there. I read it out of curiosity
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  Speaker 1: and realized that it had my name on top of it.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the note said. Hey, I see you
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  Speaker 1: get McDonald's a lot. Sometimes I watch you pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: You are truly beautiful. Do you eat all alone? Because
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  Speaker 1: I would like to join you. I thought this had
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  Speaker 1: to either be a joke or some really creepy guy.
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  Speaker 1: I showed it to my roommate and we were both
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  Speaker 1: not sure. My best guess was that it was an employee,
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  Speaker 1: but I really had no clue. I never noticed anybody
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  Speaker 1: watching me when I got it. I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: probably shouldn't go back there for a while.
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  Speaker 2: But only a few days later, I completely forgot.
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  Speaker 1: I ordered McDonald's again late at night This time, I
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  Speaker 1: was by myself, and my roommate was gone. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: until after I had ordered it and I was leaving
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  Speaker 1: to pick it up that I remembered what had happened before.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little bit nervous about it, but I
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  Speaker 1: decided to go. I left my apartment and drove to
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  Speaker 1: the McDonald's. When I got there, I went inside and
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  Speaker 1: looked all around. I didn't notice anybody watching me or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. I picked up my order and then
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  Speaker 1: walked back to my car. When I got inside, I
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  Speaker 1: checked inside the bag for another note.
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  Speaker 2: Then I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: There was another one, and I read it. The note said,
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  Speaker 1: Mind if I join you tonight? I looked around the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot and didn't see anything strange, so I left.
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  Speaker 1: This was really weird. I was checking in my mirror,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody followed me or anything. When I got back
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  Speaker 1: to my place, I looked over my shoulder until I
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  Speaker 1: had made it inside.
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  Speaker 2: Then I finally felt safe.
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  Speaker 1: I sat down on my couch and started to eat,
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  Speaker 1: but that's when I heard a knock at my door. Instantly,
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  Speaker 1: my heart started racing. I didn't know who it could be.
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  Speaker 1: I walked over to the door and looked through the peephole.
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  Speaker 1: There was a man standing there. He was average height,
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  Speaker 1: sort of thin, and had brown spiky hair. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do. Then I heard him say my
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  Speaker 1: name on the other side of the door.
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  Speaker 2: He asked me if I was home. I didn't answer him.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, I called the police and told them that some
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  Speaker 1: guy was stalking me. I went into my bedroom and
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  Speaker 1: barely heard him knocking again. I closed the door and waited.
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  Speaker 1: hoping that this guy wouldn't try to come inside. He didn't,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually the police met him outside of my door.
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  Speaker 1: He was told to leave me alone, and I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen him since. I also have not ordered at that
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's for a while. The guy did in fact work there,
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  Speaker 1: but he was not working on the night that he
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  Speaker 1: went to my apartment. I still can't believe that all happened.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a really crazy situation, and I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: that I don't see.
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  Speaker 2: That guy again.
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  Speaker 1: I went to McDonald's one night after a long day
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  Speaker 1: of work. It was probably like 10 p.m. and I
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  Speaker 1: was really hungry. Of course, you can always rely on
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  Speaker 1: there being a McDonald's open and just about everywhere. The
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  Speaker 1: location that I went to was on the way home
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  Speaker 1: from my job in a commercial area. There were a
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  Speaker 1: few other stores nearby and some other restaurants as well,
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  Speaker 1: but most businesses in the area were closed at this hour.
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  Speaker 1: The streets and nearby parking lots were pretty empty. I
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  Speaker 1: pulled into the McDonald's parking lot and only noticed a
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  Speaker 1: couple of other cars. I got out and walked inside
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  Speaker 1: to order a Big Mac. When I entered the restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that nobody else was in there. I walked
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  Speaker 1: up to the counter and an employee said hi to me.
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  Speaker 1: Then I ordered the number one, which is a Big
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  Speaker 1: Mac meal, and then waited. I filled my drink and
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  Speaker 1: then stood around. Within probably two minutes, my order was
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  Speaker 1: ready and I picked it up and left. headed out
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  Speaker 1: for my car to drive the remaining 5 or 10
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  Speaker 1: minutes back to my place.
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  Speaker 2: Then I could finally eat. I was so hungry.
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  Speaker 1: But as I made it out into the parking lot,
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  Speaker 1: I realized that a car was parked next to mine.
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  Speaker 1: I drive a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, and the car
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  Speaker 1: parked next to me appeared to be a Ford Escape,
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  Speaker 1: which is an SUV. It was a little bit older
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  Speaker 1: one though, probably like 2010 or so. And in the
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  Speaker 1: entire parking lot, there were so many other spaces for
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  Speaker 1: them to park, but they parked right next to me
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  Speaker 1: on my driver's side As I got even closer, I
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  Speaker 1: noticed that not only were they parked next to me,
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  Speaker 1: but they were parked so close that I couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: get in. They were probably within three feet of my car,
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  Speaker 1: so I couldn't get in my driver's door. I could
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  Speaker 1: also see that their car was running, and somebody was inside.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to bother telling them to move, so
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  Speaker 1: I just walked around to my passenger side, where I
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  Speaker 1: had plenty of space.
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  Speaker 2: I was pretty annoyed about it, though.
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  Speaker 1: I unlocked my car, got in, and then had to
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  Speaker 1: climb over the front passenger seat to the driver's seat.
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  Speaker 2: As I did this. I looked over at the car
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  Speaker 2: next to me.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody was in the front driver's seat and somebody else
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  Speaker 1: was in the front passenger seat. The thing that stood
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  Speaker 1: out right away was that they were both wearing these
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  Speaker 1: creepy clown masks. I figured it was teenagers trying to
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  Speaker 1: be funny or something. I might have laughed if I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't so tired and hungry and just wanted to get home.
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  Speaker 1: When I got in my driver's seat, I started my engine.
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  Speaker 1: But when I did, I realized that the person right
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  Speaker 1: next to me in the passenger seat of the other
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  Speaker 1: car was rolling down their window. I looked over, wondering
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  Speaker 1: what they were going to do, and I did not
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  Speaker 1: roll my window down. But the guy in the front
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  Speaker 1: passenger seat then reached down and pulled out what looked
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  Speaker 1: like a crowbar. I was really confused. Without saying anything,
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  Speaker 1: the guy swung it at my driver's window. He hit
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  Speaker 1: it pretty solid, but the window did not break. It
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  Speaker 1: really took me by surprise. But right after he did that,
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  Speaker 1: I put my truck in reverse. I slammed on the
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  Speaker 1: gas and backed out of there before the guy had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to swing again. Almost immediately after I backed out,
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  Speaker 1: the guys next to me did too. It looked like
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  Speaker 1: they were going to try to follow me. I drove
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  Speaker 1: out of the McDonald's parking lot and back onto the
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  Speaker 1: busier street as fast as I possibly could. The bigger
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  Speaker 1: street was luckily very quiet at this hour. I cut
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  Speaker 1: the corner pretty close, but made it. I could hear
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  Speaker 1: tires screeching from the car behind me. The guys chasing
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  Speaker 1: me were driving so recklessly that they cut the corner
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  Speaker 1: way too close. McDonald's had some rocks and bushes for
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  Speaker 1: scenery and landscaping, and these guys drove their SUV right
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  Speaker 1: into the rocks. It wasn't that bad of a crash
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  Speaker 1: at all, but it was enough to get them stuck,
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  Speaker 1: and they couldn't drive out of it. I could see
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  Speaker 1: the guys then getting out of their car as I
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  Speaker 1: was driving off. I was able to get away, and
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  Speaker 1: I called the police and reported the incident. After that,
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  Speaker 1: I went home. I'm glad that those guys ran into
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  Speaker 1: the rock or they likely would have chased me for
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  Speaker 1: a while. Looking back at that incident, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what caused it. I have no idea why they chose
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  Speaker 1: me or how. I thought maybe they had followed me
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  Speaker 1: from work, but I didn't notice them before. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it was just a random attack. Hopefully those guys
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  Speaker 1: don't do anything like that again. This is something that
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  Speaker 1: happened a long time ago when I was really young.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember it all that clearly, but I will
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  Speaker 1: do my best to tell the story. I think I
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  Speaker 1: was probably about six or seven during this time. My
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  Speaker 1: family went to McDonald's occasionally. It was a very popular
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  Speaker 1: fast food chain with us, and one thing that my
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  Speaker 1: sister and I really liked was the Happy Meals. You
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  Speaker 1: would get a small toy with your Happy Meal, and
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  Speaker 1: it was really fun as a kid. I remember that
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  Speaker 1: one night, I went there with my parents and older sister.
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  Speaker 1: We got there, ordered, and then went to a booth
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of on the side of the restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: away from the counter. You couldn't see the front registers
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  Speaker 1: from where we were. After we all sat down, my
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  Speaker 1: dad went up to get the food and returned with
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  Speaker 1: it a short time later. My sister and I opened
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  Speaker 1: up our Happy Meals first and looked at our toys.
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  Speaker 1: Then we started to eat. For some reason, back then,
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  Speaker 1: I liked to eat chicken nuggets with a fork. It
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  Speaker 1: was just something that I thought was cool. So I
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  Speaker 1: got up and walked over to the counter on my
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  Speaker 1: own to grab a fork. I assumed that they would
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  Speaker 1: be right next to the straws and things like that. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant was not packed, but actually kind of busy.
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  Speaker 1: I remember there were some people ordering, and some others
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  Speaker 1: sitting all around at tables and booths. So when I
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  Speaker 1: got over to the drink machines, I looked around, but
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find any forks. They had straws, ketchup, and sugar packets,
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  Speaker 1: but no utensils. I was looking all around that counter,
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  Speaker 1: focused on trying to find them. That's when suddenly, someone
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  Speaker 1: grabbed my wrist. They had a tight grasp on me
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  Speaker 1: and began walking towards the door. There were two entrances
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  Speaker 1: to this McDonald's. One was on the right of the
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  Speaker 1: counter and the other was on the left. The one
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  Speaker 1: on the left was literally right behind the drink machines.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up and saw this woman who I had
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  Speaker 1: never seen before. She was scolding me and telling me
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  Speaker 1: not to wander off. I was really confused and thought
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  Speaker 1: maybe this woman thought I was her kid or something.
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  Speaker 1: The next thing I knew, we were walking out the doors.
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  Speaker 1: We got past the first set of doors and were
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  Speaker 1: in the small space between the next doors which led
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  Speaker 1: to outside. There was a man in that small area
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  Speaker 1: who I guess was with the woman. He told me
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  Speaker 1: to come on and then reached out for my other hand.
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  Speaker 1: This is when my instincts started to kick in. A
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  Speaker 1: little bit late, but not too late. There was no
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  Speaker 1: way that I was going to leave with these people.
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  Speaker 2: I did what I had to do.
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  Speaker 1: I stomped on the woman's foot as hard as I could.
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  Speaker 1: This caused her to let me go. The man then
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  Speaker 1: reached out for me, but I just barely got away.
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  Speaker 1: I felt him grabbing for my arm and almost getting
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  Speaker 1: a grip, but he didn't. I got back in the
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  Speaker 1: restaurant and sprinted over to my parents. When they saw
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  Speaker 1: me come running, they told me to slow down and
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  Speaker 1: ask me what the matter was. I told them about
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  Speaker 1: what had happened. It caused a whole big scene.
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  Speaker 2: The police were.
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  Speaker 1: Called and they were at the restaurant for a while
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  Speaker 1: talking with everyone. The man and woman had gotten away
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  Speaker 1: and I gave as much of a description as I could.
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  Speaker 1: but it probably wasn't that great. To be honest, I
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  Speaker 1: never got all that good of a look at them,
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  Speaker 1: and it all happened so fast. I couldn't tell you
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  Speaker 1: what they looked like today, but looking back on that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very thankful that I was able to get away
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  Speaker 1: from them. I used to work at a McDonald's. This
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  Speaker 1: is something that happened during that time. I worked there
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  Speaker 1: during my senior year in high school. I was saving
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: up money to buy my own car, and during that
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  Speaker 1: time drove my parents' old car. Most of the times
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  Speaker 1: that I worked were at night, because I had school
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: during the day. I was a part-time employee who would
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  Speaker 1: get like 20 hours a week, if that. So one time,
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  Speaker 1: I was working from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. When
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  Speaker 1: I got there, things were pretty busy. At one point,
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  Speaker 1: in kind of a break in the action when things
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: were quieter, a man walked in and approached me. I
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  Speaker 1: was working at the front register and taking orders. The
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  Speaker 1: man did not order anything but asked if I could
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  Speaker 1: come out into the parking lot and help jump his car.
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  Speaker 1: I found this to be a really odd request. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I was busy working and I didn't know why he
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: asked me specifically. I told him that I was sorry
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: but I could not. The man then told me that
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: it would be really fast and then I could get
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: back inside. I said that I didn't know much about
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: cars because I didn't. I wasn't even sure how to
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: jump a car. The guy told me that he would
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: show me and said that it was very easy. I
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: suggested that he call his roadside service or something. The
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: guy started to explain to me that he couldn't, but
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I interrupted him. I said, look man, I'm not going
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to leave here.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I have to work.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: The guy looked disappointed, but finally walked away. He then
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: went somewhere in the back of the restaurant and sat
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: down at a table or something. I thought maybe he
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: was going to start asking random customers to help them
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: jump his car. I get needing a jump, but to
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: ask an employee who is clearly at work is really weird.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: For the next few minutes, I was busy working and
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: didn't pay attention to where the man went or anything.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: But a while later, I happened to notice him out
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the window. From where I was, I could kind of
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: see out into the parking lot and some of the spaces.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I saw the guy getting into a car, which was
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: an older-looking gray sedan, and just moments later, he drove away.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I was glad that he was able to get it
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: started and leave. I worked for the next few hours
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and was very busy with customers until probably 8 o'clock
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: or so. Then things quieted down significantly, and it also
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: became dark outside. I kept working until 9 o'clock, and
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: then finally was off and could leave. When I got off,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I left McDonald's and walked out to my car in
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the parking lot. I parked kind of on the side
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of the building at the end that was a little
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: bit out of the way. As I was walking, I
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: saw the silver car again, the man that got out
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of it and started approaching me. I had to walk
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: past him to get to my car.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: My heart sank.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: He asked me again if I could help jump his car.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Immediately I said to the man, I thought you left.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: The guy said no, he had been there all night.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I said that I thought I saw him driving away,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: but the man denied it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: This was very weird.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: The man asked me again if I could help jump
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: his car. I said sorry but no. I told the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: man that I really didn't know anything about vehicles and
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know how to jump a car. He
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: seemed really set on me helping jump start his car,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: but I was really set on not doing it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Because it seemed way too sketchy.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: The man then asked me to just come over to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: his car and that he would show me. I kept
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: walking away from him and said sorry but no. That's
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: when the man started walking closer to me. He was
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: walking sort of fast and I decided to start running.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I sprinted all the way to my car and then
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: got inside. The man actually started running after me. When
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I got inside my car, the guy got to my
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: front driver's door and tried opening it.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: But it was locked.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: He was saying, wait, wait, don't go. I ignored him
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and backed out. Then I drove away, leaving the man
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: standing in the parking lot. Something was definitely suspicious about him.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I had literally seen him driving away, and I think
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: it was some type of a setup. I'm not sure
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: if he was trying to kidnap me or rob me
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: or what. All I know is that I'm really glad
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I got away. I called my manager at the McDonald's
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: on the way home and told her about the suspicious
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: guy in the parking lot. I'm not sure how she
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: handled it or if he left. but hopefully the guy
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: did not cause any more problems. That was my scariest
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: experience from working at McDonald's.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: When I was 16, my family and I lived in
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: an apartment complex in a rural area outside of Chicago.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Chicago was a really busy city, and neither of us
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: liked crowded places, which is why we chose to live
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: in a more secluded area. I had only one friend
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: at the time named Tyler, who was just a little
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: older than me, but still fun to hang out with.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: He lived a few doors down from me, and often time,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: we'd go over to each other's places and play video
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: games and what not. One night, Tyler, his girlfriend Maria,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: and I had just seen the new Avengers movie, one
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: of the best films in 2019 in my opinion. Since
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: the movie ended late, most places were closed by now
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: and we were more hungry than ever. With no other option,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: we decided to hit up our local McDonald's to go
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: grab a bite. It's not the best food to have,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: but we were still high school teens and we didn't
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: have a lot of money. So we go in, order
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: our food, and find a table immediately. Like I said,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: it was well into the night, so finding a table
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: was easy. Tyler and Maria sat next to each other
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: like all couples do and shared their food while I
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: sat in front of them. While we were talking about
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: school and stuff, I glanced behind Tyler and his girlfriend
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: and noticed a man sitting down with nothing on his table.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: He's scrolling through his phone and looks up at me,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: and we make eye contact for a brief second before
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: he starts to talk with Tyler and Maria. I then
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: see him get up and start heading towards us, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I thought, Great, probably another guy wanting money for drugs.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: He approaches our table and starts asking us if we
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: could help him unload a few things from his car.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Seeing as we were about done with our meals... We
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: agreed to help him as we were a nice group
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: of teens and Tyler and I were both pretty strong.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: We leave the McDonald's and head out into the parking lot,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: approaching his van. When suddenly, Tyler looks at his phone
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: and apologizes, telling us that we had to go. The
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: man looks at us, confused, insisting that we help him out.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: But Tyler ignores him and walks off with us until
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: we were far away from the restaurant. I asked Tyler
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: what had happened. He looked petrified and told me that
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: when he was approaching the van, he could very faintly
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: see two men wearing masks looking through the window. So,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I've been working at what is considered to be the
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: world's largest McDonald's chain in Orlando, Florida. To give you
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: an idea as to how big the establishment is, we
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: have a large play place, a whole dining area the
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: size of a cafeteria, and a large kitchen. It sounds
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: like your typical McDonald's, but it's a lot bigger than
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: you think. Anyway, I had been working the late night
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: shift from around 6 to 12 p.m. as I was
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: still in college and had classes during the day, so
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the night shift was the only time I had been
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: available to work. One night at around 11.30pm, I was
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: finishing up my shift and we were getting ready to close,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: which meant that we weren't allowing any more customers. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: had to use the restroom one last time before I
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: ended my shift, and when I went into the woman's restroom,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I noticed that the lights were extremely dim. After all,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: the lights hadn't been replaced in forever, so I did
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: my business when it started to become ridiculously cold. It
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: was the middle of summer and the temperature was 70
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: last time I checked. Then, what happened next is something
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: that will never leave me. A loud bang came from
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: the stall over and I instantly went pale. As I'm
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: unlocking the stall door, I hear a faint giggle from
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: the stall over. I didn't even dream of looking into
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: that stall. I ran out of that restroom so fast
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: only to end up freaking out about it to my manager.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: My manager went into the restroom and opened up all
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: the stalls, but she didn't find anyone. I'm still convinced
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: that till this day, that I was not alone in
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that restroom.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: When I was about 10 years old, I lived in
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the city, not too far from a McDonald's. I remember
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: one day I convinced my mom to let me go
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: there alone to get some food. She was busy with
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: something and gave me a few dollars and told me
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to come back quickly. I was excited and it made
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: me feel like a grown-up to go out on my own.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I had done it several times before and it wasn't
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a daily thing, but here and there I would. So
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I left and I made my way to the McDonald's.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It took me about 10 minutes to walk there. After
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: leaving our house, I only had to walk to the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: end of the street, then cross a busy one. Then
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I went down a ways before the McDonald's was on
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the right side. As I approached the restaurant, a sudden
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: urge to use the bathroom hit me. When I got inside,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I saw that the place wasn't very busy, and I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: walked over to the bathrooms to use it before ordering.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: When I got inside the bathroom, nobody else was in there.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I went into a stall, but only about a minute later,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I heard the bathroom door open and close. This was
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: followed by footsteps, but the footsteps didn't go in far.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: They seemed to stop just inside the door, and I
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: thought this was kind of weird. I kept expecting them
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to walk further in, but they didn't. After about a minute,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I ducked down and looked underneath the bathroom stall that
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I was in. I saw black shoes and the bottom
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: of some black pants. They were standing right in front
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: of the door. I wanted to leave, but I would
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: have to walk past the person, so I decided to wait.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: As I sat in the bathroom stall, I couldn't believe
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: how or why this person was standing there for so long.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I decided that I was going to stay in the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: bathroom stall until they left. Eventually, after probably ten more minutes,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I heard the door open and the person walk out.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I felt much better. The whole thing seemed really strange
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to me. Finally, I was able to leave the bathroom stall,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and after I walked out of the bathroom, I looked
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: around the restaurant.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: There still weren't very many people in there.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: However, not long after leaving the restrooms, as I was
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: making my way over to order, I saw one man
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: who was sitting in the corner of the restaurant. I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: noticed his black shoes and pants, and I realized this
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: was more than likely the same guy. I hurried up
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and went to the counter to order, and I did
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: not see the man as I did. After ordering, it
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: didn't take long at all for me to get my food,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and I then left the restaurant to walk home. I
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: began making my way back along the sidewalk, but before
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: making it more than two minutes, I had a bad feeling.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I looked back, and sure enough, the same guy was
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: trailing me. He was a little ways back and not
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: right up on me, but it still made me really nervous.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Could he be following me?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: This was the same man who had just been standing
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: inside the bathroom door for so long. I kept looking
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: back every so often, and the man was always behind me.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: When I started walking faster intentionally, the guy definitely did
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the same thing.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I was now getting really worried.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: What if this guy followed me all the way back
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: to my house? And what if he ran up behind
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: me and tried to grab me or something before I
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: could get home? As I approached the busy street to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: wait at the crosswalk before crossing, I had to stop.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: The man would probably catch up to me before I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: would make it across the street. That's when I decided
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to just go for it. I started sprinting across the road,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: with many cars still on it. I felt confident that
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I could make it and would not be hit by
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: a car, but nevertheless, multiple cars honked at me as
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I ran, but luckily, I did make it across safely.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I looked back and saw the man starting to run
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: out into the street as well, but a car quickly
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: approached and honked at him. He backed up and stayed
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: on the other side. I used this opportunity to run
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: up into my street and out of sight of the man.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I ran the whole rest of the way home and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: made it back a short time later. After making it home,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I told my mom all about the experience, and as
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a result, I was not allowed to go anywhere on
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: my own for a while, but I didn't mind a bit.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I was worried that the.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Man would have somehow found out where we lived, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I worried about that for weeks. But luckily, I don't
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: believe he did, because I never saw him again after that.