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A little background on me. I'm a 19-year-old male and I was traveling with my girlfriend.

We were on a road trip to visit my grandparents who lived a few states away. They said we

could stay at their place for a few weeks over the summer and it seemed like a no-brainer

because they lived on the beach. The path to getting there, though, was really long and

it was a painful drive. My girlfriend and I both dislike driving, but we figured that

we could take turns and it wouldn't be so miserable.

I think the total time on the road was about 10 hours. We were about 5 hours into the

drive when we decided to stop off at a rest stop. I'm not going to lie to you. We stopped

quite a bit. I'm a little compulsive with drinking water because I like to stay hydrated.

As you might imagine, there are some consequences of being hydrated.

They irritated my girlfriend, but not very much. I think she secretly liked that we were

stopping on my sake and not hers because she always seemed to buy something every time

we stopped. This one rest area was not horrible or anything.

It wasn't in a bad area or anything like that. It seemed like a very typical safe rest

stop. But this is where one of the most horrifying experiences of my life took place, at least

the first part of it. This has simply been one of the many times when I had to pull off

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