`ILikeMyBlueEyes` [Thread]

This is my personal /r/LetsNotMeet story.

> 20 years ago, when I was eight and living in San Diego, CA at the time
> (my dad was in the navy and we lived in military housing.), I had an
> experience that has since made me develop a phobia of windows with no
> curtains or blinds of any sort shut at night.

> It was roughly 2 AM (I was having a friend sleep over) and my friend
> and I were playing with our Barbie's in the living room. Now, the
> dining room and living room are basically just one big room. And on
> the wall in the dining room section, there were 3, floor to ceiling
> windows that had no blinds or curtains whatsoever. So anyone standing
> outside those dining room windows could easily watch whoever may be in
> the living room. And I felt like someone was watching us.

> I turned my head to the right was greeted by a sight that I will
> always remember. It may not sound gruesome in description, but to an 8
> year old....There stood a man, a white man. I know this because he was
> wearing a dark blue, short-sleeved t-shirt that had a pocket on one
> side of the chest. So I was able to see his bare forearms, which were
> also quite hairy. He wore a black ski mask and black gloves. He had
> his face pressed up to the window with his hands on either side of his
> face to block out any glare from the street lights, watching us with
> such intent.

> I screamed my little eight year old head off and curled into a ball.
> My friend doing the same. Sobbing, she asked what were we to do. I
> said that we were going to count to 3 and run upstairs to get my dad.
> We began counting, but I only made it to '2' and I was hightailing it
> up those stairs. My friend was hot on my tail. We burst into my dad's
> room in hysterics, screaming about a man staring at us through the
> window. He didn't hesitate to jump out of bed and race out to the
> backyard (where the man would be standing). Of course by the time my
> dad got there, the man was gone.

> Years later I am retelling this account to my mom. My parents were
> divorced, but she lived in the area and remembers hearing about a
> rapist on the loose right about that time in that area. To this day I
> am convinced that man was that rapist.

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