Josh Lanyon
Ha. Here's a true story.
When I was in sixth grade I started playing hooky with a friend of mine -- and I dragged my little sister along for the ride. Our favorite hideout was the tree-shrouded lot of a burned-out house beneath two apartment buildings. We loved playing in the ruins because the foundation was still there with all the cement stairs running up and down and every whichway.
Anyway, one day my friend and I were fooling around per usual in the foundation of the house and an older man from one of the apartment buildings came over to the lot and asked us what we were doing there. He came down the stairs toward us and he was putting on black leather gloves. He told us we shouldn't be there.
As he reached the bottom stair, my little sister popped out at the top of the stairs, startling him. He took his gloves off, told us to go away and not come back or he would call the police. Then he left.
At the time I didn't think a lot about it. Pesky adults always interfering! But later I began to wonder about that exchange -- and to this day I'm not sure as to whether he was trying to frighten us or if he was really about to do something terrible.
When I was in sixth grade I started playing hooky with a friend of mine -- and I dragged my little sister along for the ride. Our favorite hideout was the tree-shrouded lot of a burned-out house beneath two apartment buildings. We loved playing in the ruins because the foundation was still there with all the cement stairs running up and down and every whichway.
Anyway, one day my friend and I were fooling around per usual in the foundation of the house and an older man from one of the apartment buildings came over to the lot and asked us what we were doing there. He came down the stairs toward us and he was putting on black leather gloves. He told us we shouldn't be there.
As he reached the bottom stair, my little sister popped out at the top of the stairs, startling him. He took his gloves off, told us to go away and not come back or he would call the police. Then he left.
At the time I didn't think a lot about it. Pesky adults always interfering! But later I began to wonder about that exchange -- and to this day I'm not sure as to whether he was trying to frighten us or if he was really about to do something terrible.
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