Weirdo in Evergreen

[Clint45]

On Tuesday a girl I know asked if I could give her a ride from Evergreen to Denver. I don’t get out that way very often and, aside from her, know absolutely nobody in that town. Anyway, at about 1:30 she needed to stop at the 7-11 just outside Evergreen on Route 74, and my car is parked there for about 15 minutes. She finally comes out and gets in the passenger side when I see this POS silver minivan filled to the roof with trash with bondo, dents, scratches, and a faded Harley Davidson sticker in the back window slowly backing through the parking lot directly towards my rear quarterpanel. When he gets about 2 feet away with no sign of stopping, I lean on the horn and yell, “WTF?” He stops inches from my car (absolutely no reason for him to be backing through the parking area like that – I’m guessing maybe he saw the gas cap was on the wrong side or something). The passenger looks out the window and smirks, some dirtbag who looks like he hasn’t had a haircut in a year and has been drinking since morning. I hear the driver slur, “I saw ya.” Then they slowly pull forward towards the gas pumps.

I slowly back out of the parking spot and I see the driver glaring at me. Another dirtbag, white guy, disheveled reddish blonde hair, I’m guessing about 300 pounds, wearing an orange T-shirt. “Maybe I should show you my badge,” he says. You have got to be shitting me. I’d be surprised if anyone would hire this idiot to be a night watchman guarding firewood. “I think I need to talk to you,” he says. This is getting even better – what, is he going to step out of his trash filled mini-van in his orange T-shirt and expect me to respect his authority? As far as I can tell I haven’t committed any violation of the law. So I ignore him and leave. “That’s right, run away,” I hear him say.

Now, I know the correct and proper thing to have done would’ve been to call 911 and report a suspected police impersonator to CSP and give them his description and plate number, but I did not get a clear look at the plate number, her cell phone had a dead battery, my cellphone was switched off and locked in the glovebox, she had an appointment, and this happened to be one of those times I didn’t have a gun in the car (it had been a rough morning and I left the house in a hurry with nothing but a cup of coffee for breakfast). Besides, for all I knew maybe he was a police officer of some sort in one of those mountain towns – he certainly wasn’t from any department with a fitness requirement though. My landlord was involved in a road rage incident with an off duty DPD officer a couple years back, so I know those things do occasionally happen, but I seriously doubt this dirtbag was any sort of cop at all . . . although from the way he spoke it was obvious he’d presented himself as one before and was comfortable doing so.

I don’t really have anything more to say about this, and am not asking for advice . . . just telling you guys about the weirdo in Evergreen I ran into the other day, seeing if anyone knows who he is or has any thoughts on the matter.

[Troublco]

Sounds like you did the best thing you could do, since you didn't have a cell phone handy. Scumbags like to travel in packs, since they mostly don't have the cojones to do anything alone. Things could have gotten ugly.

[lpgasman]

He was chief of police, and was cleaning up the town. Hence the trash.

[Monky]

At least tell me your gun wasn't unloaded and locked in the glove box next to the cell phone that was turned off...

[Bailey Guns]

Dude...there hasn't been a 7-11 in Evergreen for years! And that type of person is typically attracted to the mountain towns for some reason.

[Tinelement]

See, now I woulda played his game.

But I like a little controversy in my day. Keeps it interesting!

[Clint45]

At least tell me your gun wasn't unloaded and locked in the glove box next to the cell phone that was turned off...

Dude...there hasn't been a 7-11 in Evergreen for years! And that type of person is typically attracted to the mountain towns for some reason.

@ Monky: Well, I did have a .22 derringer in my boot . . . but that doesn't really count, does it? I need to regularly leave my car parked outside in a neighborhood where 1 out of every 10 cars has a busted window, so I don't leave a gun in the glove box.

@ Bailey Guns: My mistake, don't know the area well. Big gas station I thought was a 7-11 on Route 74 between Evergreen and Morrison.

[Ronin13]

@ Bailey Guns: My mistake, don't know the area well. Big gas station I thought was a 7-11 on Route 74 between Evergreen and Morrison.

OP: most likely a Conoco. The one by I-70 (by Walmart and Home Depot) gets a ton of traffic, so who knows where that douche came from. The other one near the McDonalds...who knows.

Now I'm confused... there are two ways to Morrison -I-70- which I'd understand the Conoco by Walmart, lots of d-bags there, or is it Bradley or Bear's Auto? Either way, I've never seen this guy but then again the population here over the last 15 years has exploded and I don't know more than maybe 10% of the people who live here now.
No surprise you ran into a guy like that... I sometimes think I'd be more likely to have a 'situation' in Evergreen than down the hill.

[Ah Pook]

And that type of person is typically attracted to the mountain towns for some reason.

Tell me about it. We have a metric shiat ton of them this year. Even the regular dirt bags don't like them.

[GilpinGuy]

OP: most likely a Conoco. The one by I-70 (by Walmart and Home Depot) gets a ton of traffic, so who knows where that douche came from. The other one near the McDonalds...who knows.

Tell me about it. We have a metric shiat ton of them this year. Even the regular dirt bags don't like them.

No shit man. Pook, you notice an ever increasing number of fools in Ned who will stand right at the crosswalk near the "Must Yield to Peds" sign, then step out an instant before you get to the crosswalk, only to curse at you and wave their hands like spastic idiots?

Christ man, walk or don't. But do not step out in front of my big-ass Jeep without enough room for me to stop - you will be crushed...probably to death. Might be another "gene pool cleansing" technique but I'd rather not partake in that.