When was the last time you noped the fuck out of somewhere? What was your reason?

Was in sort of a jam in a foreign country, but to make a long story short I needed to find a place to live very quickly for work reasons. I'm somewhat familiar with the country but not very much so, but there's sort of a craigslist there for apartment listings. It's about as seedy.

Anyway, I answer a few ads that day and the places are nice, but I wanted to see all the ones I had bookmarked that night. The last one sounded nice, and the dude on the phone was really cool and offered to pick me up and drive me there (this is a common enough practice in the country, and the distance was only 5 blocks or so). I say sure, why not.

Dude arrives to pick me up at a pubic place, and he's in a nice enough suit and is really friendly. Says I'll love the place. I get in the car and we drive a bit, but something about the way the guy is looking about as he drives starts putting me off. And my stomach starts to sink like it does when you just know something isn't right. I realize that sun is setting and the shadows are stretching pretty long, I'm in the car with a complete stranger in a foreign country. Again, this is not such a crazy thing for the country in question, and I've done similar things tons of times. But this time something was off, and the paranoia and hypersensitivity started creeping in.

As I start feeling this wonderful bunch of feelings we pull up to the base of a hill, and I practically launch myself out of the car. I look around quickly to get my bearings as to where I am in the city, and then look up at the place I was going to rent.

It wasn't finished. It was practically a construction site. No doors, no windows, exposed steel. And there are men standing there, not dressed as construction workers at all. Men my age, who look like someone you didn't want to meet at a construction site in a foreign country all alone.

All this recognition took place in about 5 seconds. Dude who drove me started to say something, but I noped right the fuck out immediately and ran down that hill as fast as I could until I hit a block full of people. One of the scarier situations I've been through.

TL;DR: I got into a car with a stranger in a foreign country and almost got Taken.

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