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This story is about a discovery that I made, early one Thursday morning during my last year of college. I stayed at a very secluded apartment complex, it was a half mile off the main road in a small part of town that had not yet been developed. The complex consisted of only 10 large one bedroom apartments, a huge laundry room with vending machines and a weight room. The parking lot was off to the side of the buildings and the lighting was poor.
I knew most of my neighbors and which cars they drove. I had a white Mazda pickup truck, the smaller one. It was a great truck and it proved valuable from time to time. There was one problem with my little white truck; it resembled several other plain white small trucks. From a distance you could not distinguish my white Mazda truck from a white Toyota truck. I had no pin stripes and no fancy custom wheels, so my plain white truck was one of many on campus. There was also a neighbor of mine who had the exact same truck; I noticed it the day after I moved into my apartment.
Our trucks were the only characteristic we had alike. I was a black male 6 ft tall and in good shape. He was a skinny short skater type, a white boy that had several tattoos and a nose ring. He listened to grudge music and I enjoyed rhythm and blues. I was in college and he was the local pizza delivery driver and a part time bartender, while he waited for his band to get discovered. This guy was the complete opposite of me but he seemed to be very popular, he would often have multiple guests over to his apartment all hours of the night.
One Thursday morning I could not sleep it was early, approximately 4:30 AM. This is the worst time of the morning, nothing was open and most of your friends are asleep. I tossed and turned and I decided to do some laundry and work out in the weight room. I put on some black cotton shorts and a grey tee shirt, gathered my clothes and started to walk down the stairs of my apartment, around to the front side of the building, when I noticed a figure in the parking lot about 20 yards away. I stopped and hid behind the corner of the building and peaked at what was going on. I first suspected that someone was trying to steal a car, but I quickly came to the realization of what was happening and who it was happening to. My white truck was being vandalized, spay painted at the hands of some stranger that was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and jeans. I drop my laundry basket and sprung into action, with out saying a word I sprinted toward the back of this figure in a stealth type manner planning to do severe damage to this person upon my arrival. I got closer and noticed it was a female but this did not mater to me, I was in striking distance and she quickly turned around.
I recognized her face she was a waitress from the Diner in town. Her eyes opened wide, and I could sense the fear in her as she dropped the can of spray paint and put her hands in the air, "You scared the shit out of me man."
I was shocked but I looked around to see if this woman was alone or, was I about to be attacked. She was alone and quickly explained to me what was going on, "I don't want no fucking trouble man I am just tagging Jays' truck."
She claimed she was painting the truck of the loser that had smacked her best friend so people would know he hit women. I was sympathetic to her situation but this woman had spray painted the wrong truck, "Look chick that aint your boys truck," I angrily explained.
I noticed that she became frightened once I informed her of this horrible mistake. I saw her body start to shake and tears form in her eyes. I know that I was boiling with anger and at this point every muscle in my body was flexed as I looked at the damage to my truck. I screamed at her, "You stupid Bitch look at my damn truck!"