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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWell, it could have been a lot worse...
WTF? No woman on earth would do that...Late Tuesday afternoon, here in the San Fernando Valley.
I was out for my Mandatory Health Walk, cutting thru a parking lot behind a big commercial building.
Lying on the ground, I saw something very strange - a woman's purse, half-open, so I could see a lot of stuff inside.
Alarm bells immediately went off in my head. Robbery? Abduction? Mugging? Rape? It's 5:30 PM in a busy parking lot, where people are just getting off work.
Still, I watch a lot of true crime shows, so I know Weird Stuff Happens. Especially here in the City of the Angels...er, Non-Existent Heavenly Flitting Critters. (I'm an atheist.)
A guy came driving toward me. I thought maybe his wife had dropped the purse. Nope, he was just as mystified as me.
Then a young woman pulled out of another parking spot. I pointed to the purse and asked - "Yours?"
Not hers. But now we have 3 totally mystified people staring at this purse in the parking lot.
It was lying near the rear wheel of an SUV with heavily blacked-out "privacy glass" in the windows. Couldn't see inside, so I finally banged on a window with my fist.
After a couple of seconds, a back door opens. Very sheepish, half-undressed young man takes the purse and mutters, "Thanks." Behind him I could see an equally sheepish and half-undressed young woman.
Damn. Those two must have been incredibly...excited.
Just another item in my long personal list of "Reasons Why I Love Los Angeles."
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Well, it could have been a lot worse... (Original Post)
onager
May 2012
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Suich
(10,642 posts)1. You're right...it could have been a lot worse!
Glad things worked out well!
sarge43
(28,941 posts)2. Afternoon delight
Talking with a woman from Switzerland one day. She remarked, "You Americans! You do everything in your cars." Me, "Yup, from conception to death."
WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)3. Um...
where people are just getting off work.
Apparently they were just 'getting off' from work.
irisblue
(32,992 posts)4. did you notice if the suv was moving?
hahahahahahahahaha
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)5. "If this van's a rockin', don't come a knockin'."
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)6. Late afternoon in the San Fernando Valley
in a black car with the windows up?
It doesn't get much worse than that!