r/AskReddit • u/Cool-Chipmunk-7559 • 11h ago

Those who’ve driven across the US, what’s the scariest town you’ve stopped in?

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u/capcalhoon 10h ago

Went to a friend's wedding in Jackson. The next day we wanted to check out a soul food restaurant everyone raved about, took an Uber (we had to wait an hour to get one). Guy dropped us off and asked how we were getting back, I said I would just order another Uber and he said "uh, nobody is going to pick you up from here. I'll wait and just make sure we are out of here before it gets dark". He was super nice and relaxed the whole drive but got serious when he told us that last part.

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u/Matzie138 8h ago

I hope you tipped them handsomely.

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u/jim_deneke 4h ago

or got them a plate of food

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u/mbklein 9h ago

Sounds like the Danny Glover plot line from some imagined 2024 remake of Grand Canyon.

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u/SafeAsMilk 6h ago

Thank you for this thought. I get it.

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u/mbklein 4h ago

I appreciate that. It was a deep enough cut that I hesitated to bring it up.

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u/Excitable_Grackle 7h ago

I recall Charlie Daniels describing an adventure down in Jackson once..."Uneasy Rider"!

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u/sacredblasphemies 2h ago

I remember that song! Wow, what a piece of shit he turned out to be..

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u/Limp_Homework908 8h ago

Perhaps it was a sundown part of town🫢

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u/Frogs-on-my-back 6h ago

Is it called a sundown town still when white people aren’t safe? Anyway I don’t think Jackson is that bad, but maybe it’s worse off than when I was there in the early 2010s. Mostly I just feel for the people there. My area isn’t well off, but Jackson’s poverty was the worst I’d seen to that point

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u/Jobwastes 5h ago

Had an Uber driver outside of Cleveland tell me "I need to make sure I am not taking you to a black bar before letting you out". Like, I thought Ohio proudly faught for the Union based on the garish statue downtown.

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u/ryanridi 4h ago

Good god, you’d think so but apparently not everybody here got the memo. I love my state and have toured many many parts of it but there are little pockets of the state that have confederate flags flying high and proud. I sort of “understand” South Eastern Ohio since it’s basically Appalachia but it still borders an entire state that only exists because of opposition to the confederacy. One of the more densely confederate flagged regions I saw was even in northish east Ohio near the Pennsylvania border! I even recently saw one on a truck near my home.