gunfire

[threeplusfire]

So I came to Houston to get some time away, have some fun. Why do such simple things not quite work?

We went to play laser tag and that was indeed fun. Running around in the maze listening to KMFDM like silly teen age kids. I got 6th place, and was only tagged twice. Afterwards, we drove a few blocks down Westheimer and stopped in a 24 hour pool hall. I watched my friends play and pondered the geometry of balls knocking about on a felt covered table. A smokey way to end the evening. By the time my eyes were burning, we moved back over near the bar to pay the tab.

Which is where everything started to go wrong. I say the beginning of a confrontation between a couple guys, and anxiously asked my friends to hurry it up. The guys seperated with their friends, and as I dragged my friends out the door I breathed a sigh of relief thinking that things were okay.

Wrong. Inside the confrontation apparently escalated, and when I saw one of the guys come dashing out towards his car, swearing, I started to panic. Go go go, let's go now and we started walking fast to Melynda's car. Behind us, the people were spilling out of the pool hall, yelling. The guy in the car sped up to the front and jumped out. I started shouting "Get in the car! Drive now!" Slamming doors, we pulled out and behind us... gunfire. Repeated gunfire.

I am okay, my friends are okay. Hopefully the people involved in the fight are okay too. I just want to go home right now.

Comments

*hugs*

[teklanika.livejournal.com]

that is so veryvery scary. i'm incredibly glad that you're ok. and that you trusted your instincts and got the hell out of there. *hugs*

i hope you're doing alright mentally. not the sort of thing that should happen on vacation.

Re: *hugs*

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think that I am perhaps the one person who could go on vacation and end up even more stressed than before. *sigh* I don't know if I should laugh or cry or scream. eek. I think I will go to the grocery store first.

Re: *hugs*

[teklanika.livejournal.com]

vacations like that suck. when i was a kid, we went to costa rica for our family christmas vacation thing and our plane made an unplanned stop in nicaragua (managua) where we sat on the tarmac for about 3 hours with the plane surrounded by people with lots of very big guns. nothing happened and we got sent on our way, but it was very scary in a sense of 'this is supposed to be relaxing - what the hell?'. vacations with stress are no good.
grocery stores are good, on the other hand. yummy food is one of the best stress relievers on the planet.
*hugs* good luck. i hope you can find a way to dull the scary memories and feel okay....