It was in I think 1987, I was working a shift in a nursing home. An old fellow was passing on that evening I was in taking care of a patient on rounds... across the hall in the room I had just come out of there was someone - a shadow that walked very quickly to the bathroom... I went over to the room because the woman couldnt walk, I knew that. nothing. I went back to my work and my associate came in and said, ... just passed a moment ago. I said, Yeah, I know... and I told her what had happened. A couple nights later I am down at the laundry - someone says Manny! I thought I was needed came out into the hall - no one. and the person across the hall was out like a light. So it is a night later. A Saturday, and it was quiet riding home. I worked the 3 to 10 shift and was on my bike down a bike path in a flood plain that used to be part of my then home town. I had this tape in a cassette player in my pocket the song was AC/DCs Dont talk to strangers... I could hear it very clearly and it just wouldnt leave me for some time... I was cruising down the way and you come to this undercut that runs under a major thoroughfare and cross on a path across the creek make a big loop and come to a peddle bridge over the creek again and wind up on the south side of the stream,.. so I am at the under pass I see over on the other side of the loop two derelect drunks walking so I just determine I keep on like ok... I come around the loop and as I approach what should be two people it is two people but they are under what looks like a blanket or a burlap cover - heavy... and I get right up to them and was going to turn and say pardon me and something snapped my head forward and said to me,Dont SAY A WORD!... I was by them by about 15 feet and just to the bike bridge and looked back - and all I could see was black under what looked like a hooded figure completely open on the front with what would be hands raised. I hit the pedal so hard I dont know how I managed but I was gone in a portion of a second and flying home... The next morning I awoke to my brother calling to me in the basement... Hey XXX got shot last night over by such and such with another man by his jealous girlfriend.! Its in this mornings paper! That woman was someone I was very intimate with... and when they were shot was approximately when I encountered the two people under the blanket and the fact is that the alley behind the house they were shot at was one block across the thoroughfare from the bike path loop and I was either very close to the time or just after... they both were shot critically and my friend wasnt sure she would ever walk again- but she did. The first song I heard in my head was this one - It was a Sunday morning in Aug... youtube/watch?v=RKFLiMbDSIQ
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:47:33 +0000
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