Trip Home (20 of 22): Strange Arby's customer.

My one friend from home's older half sister was saying that back when she was in high school, she used to work a Wednesday evening shift at the local Arby's, and though they'd close at 10pm, at like 10:01pm this (older) (white) guy used to pull through and order a cup of black coffee and an Arby's super sandwich no tomato, every week.

Then, when she was graduating and getting ready to move downstate, the guy began asking her at the drive-through window for her name and address, so he could take her out for lunch if he was ever down that way, and she kept having to refuse him, and say nicely that she didn't really know him, but maybe she'd run into him around town when she was back sometime.

Then, like 3 years later, she was in this little liquor store that used to be in the far end of the big grocery store in town and had a separate entrance (it's not there any more), and she runs into that guy, and he's like, "Hi, [her first name]," and she's like, "Hey, Mr. Black-Coffee-and-Arby's-Super-Sandwich-No-Tomato man," though of course she didn't say that exactly, but she recognized him immediately and knew who he was.

Then, he asked her, "Does your mom still live out [the location of her mom's house]?"

That gave her pause, and she asked him a few things, and it turns out that he used to follow her home after work, and would then park up the road and sleep in his car and wake up with the sun, and then go home after he saw her and her little sisters get on the bus safely to school.

"After that," my one friend from home's older half sister was like, "I told my mom that the girls were *never* to go around the house in just their bras and underwear again, because we had a lot of trees around, but who knows what this guy was doing."

She also said that some of her friends used to have apartments above some shops on my hometown's main street, and sometimes at night she would see his car parked across the street from there, and she now realizes that he must have been in there behind the tinted windows and looking up into the apartment's windows to catch glimpses of the girls' parties.