Scary Trucker Experience

Now this one might not be a scary story as such, but it was scary for me. I was driving across Kent, Texas. There is an old Chevron station over there,  and it seems like FedEx drivers like stopping in there in droves. Well my guess is that it's a popular drop and hook point for them or something. I never really stopped there since I never cared, and moreover, I had my own designated stops.

But one fine day, I stopped there, as I needed to take a piss. I don't know why I didn't stop in Van Horn, which was barely a few miles before, but whatever. So I pull off, and I roll up to the empty lot across the street. Now just so you know, Kent is an abandoned town. I walk up to the bush line, and notice a makeshift fire pit. The wood is somewhat burned, but not all the way. The weird thing is that there's an unscathed dollar bill, stuck in the wood. For a second I was like "Oh piece of candy!", but then this sudden feeling of nope came over me.

 

So I left it alone and pissed in the bush. As I'm walking back, I look over at it and get a real negative feeling. It was instinctive. I look to the ground in front of me and bam, there's a rattlesnake looking right at me. I stop dead in my tracks, and walk carefully around it, and it keeps staring at me. I ran as fast as I could back to my truck feeling like somebody was behind me. I kicked up a lot of dust getting out of there, and have never stopped in Kent since.