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Warning:
I was with a group
of friends who wanted to show me a C.B. club that they were in, and who all
reunited in the parking lot of a supermarket at night. I was standing on a slab
of concrete with my back towards the street, just joking around with them, when
I noticed a "can gatherer," [a person who gathers cans to then sell for money],
coming up the sidewalk. I paid him no mind until he called me by name and when I
turned to face him he said to me, "Don't keep your back to the street for your
friends will all betray you," and walked off.
My friends started
laughing, and me thinking the warning could be serious asked them why. They
looked at me surprised and told me that all the guy spoke to me was "gibberish,"
that what they heard from him made no sense whatsoever, [I had understood him as
clear as day]. I spoke of it no more, but kept the warning in mind--in the end,
all my friends DID betray me.
--Nina