State motto: "RICHARD PETTY IS GOD"

- best said w / accompanying 'power belch' while holding a 16 oz budweiser 'tall boy' can.

THE ONLY PLACE YOU ARE LIKELY TO ENCOUNTER A PROBLEM IS THE *winston-salem* AREA (where - I-40 & I-77 meet).

THERE IS A GUY WHO WORKS AT THE winston - salem AIRPORT NAMED "g****** w**** b*********" HE DRIVES A BLACK IMPORTED PICKUP & HE IS the *only* person I have ever justifiably felt my life endangered by.

Normally my instincts are pretty good...this guy had NO red flags & he had a Piedmont/Triangle airport ground access ID card hanging from the mirror.

I barely escaped with:
1: my life
2: my TEETH &
3: my delicate heiny
AND HAD TO PUNCH OUT 4 WINDOWS IN HIS TRUCK BEFORE HE REALIZED I MEANT IT AND TOOK OFF, leaving me somewhat terrified with my hands bloody from where they went thru the glass...

The local sheriffs were LESS than helpful + accused me of tyring to cover something up because I couldn' remember his last name right away (FROM HIS ID CARD).
May very well have a warrant out for my arrest in North Carolina for the damage I was forced to do to his car - I DUNNO.

Anyhoo If you get in a black pickup in that area and there is airport ground access ID hanging from the mirror and he says his name is "WAYNE" ...........
GET OUT! GET OUT GET OUT GETOUT!!!!!!!

P.S. to Raleigh Airport Authority: WHY THE HELL WAS THIS CLOWN GIVEN TARMAC CLEARANCE?

Then get this: When I reported it to the police they accused me of trying to "cover SOMETHING up" because in my somewhat overexcited state I couldn't remember his name from the ID immediately & they said the license # I gave them from the truck didn't match the vehicle...
Well, duh, a *potential* serial killer isn't gonna use his REAL tags & he spaced pocketing his ID before he picked ME up.

I just hope I turned him off to picking up hitchiker's permanently - even if it does mean I can't return to N.Carolina...

Then get this, the cops for my *SAFETY?* dropped me off at a shelter in the projects that was FLOODED w/crackheads...
Things got easier the closer I got to Charlotte tho...
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Ok, really it's not too bad and you can always get anywhere in North Carolina from anywhere else in North Carolina + walking on the interstate doesn't SEEM to be illegal there (there are no prohibition signs either).

Anyway, the rest of the state is fairly normal, Winston - Salem is kinda fucked up tho...

GOOD PLACE: NAGS HEAD: a cheap beach town - the best kind.
The Outer Banks are also home of "America's oldest mystery" - !the lost colony,
& the first AIRPLANE. And you might just encounter native born U.S citizens that speak a language called "Wachesne" - I THINK I spelled that right.
Further south some people speak a languge based completely on West African languages called 'gullah'. Check Cloud Nine Beads in the 'Pirates Quay' shopping center for evidence o'rob...

You can get most places in North Carolina from the beach town of Nags Head in between 16 -36 hrs depending on route taken & all N.C hiways meet each other at some point...
Hell, you can get to New York city in 16 hrs if you start on a Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock and are willing to pay the Chesapeake Bay - bridge / tunnel toll...($9.00).
Also, the state of Virginia gives you a coupon good for a free dr.pepper in the middle of the bridge when you pay the toll...

Cool comic store on I-85 north of Charlotte on west side of hiway - shopping mall exit - Orbit Comics - owned by a TEEN-ager no less.
Good chinese buffet on EAST side of same intersection...5-6 dollars as of 1995.
I endorse the Subway sandwich store on the Blockbuster Pavillion exit for personal reasons...

True Charlotte kindness story: a starvin' marvin in Charlotte - along I-85, I forgot where but I remeber the Wendy's is the only place I have ever seen w/'Cheerwine' soda on tap.
I went in to the store, grabbed a bag of a chips and a dr.pepper and was reaching into my pocket to pay for it when I realized *MY WALLET WAS AWOL* - I had unwittingly left it in my last ride's car; it fell out of my pocket - he probably didn't know he had it...
The lady saw the panic on my face and paid for it out of her pocket...
Thinking I would never show again...
BOY was she surprised when I paid her the three dollars two months later...

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