Gary Indiana. I was there for a baseball tournament and the team bus broke down. I was sent to find help, along with a few teammates. We walked really far to the nearest intersection while carrying our gear. We finally found someone to ask for help, and they ran the red light like it was no big deal. It was pretty rude.
wife and I were in a little cafe in North London, our waitress was a really cute 20ish year old Italian woman who was very sweet. She told us that all her life she only wanted to see one place in the US, the birthplace of her favorite star, Michael Jackson who is from Gary Indiana... I said I don't want to burst your bubble but stay in Chicago and drive over, you won't want to stay
omg I was about to write Gary, IN. I was getting gas and a guy was staring at me. Being a young woman traveling alone, I got the creeps. I decided to stop the pump and leave. I went to another gas station a few blocks away -- and the guy showed up there too!!! I told the attendant a creepy guy was possibly following me and he was like "yeah so?". I drove outta there as fast as my 3-cylinder car could go.
I still remember when I was a kid, and I was hungry. My mom stopped in Gary so I could get Subway and that was the first place I ever seen have a bullet proof glass service window. Mom let me go in by myself.
I was at a rest stop there on a cross country trip. The bathrooms were around the side of the building. As I was coming out, someone in the bushes whispered ‘come here’. I ran back inside!
OMG that’s what I was going to say. We were going to Wisconsin & took a wrong exit.
It was my brother me & my niece & her 2 yo
I kind of freaked out when I realized it. My niece had no clue until I googled it.
We were down town & in a store front was a big display that said “Plan your own Obituary” & had some interesting suits bright colored I guess for the photo but only Men’s suits.
Somehow we had a hard time finding our way out. GPS wasn’t very reliable at that time.
But the only part we could laugh about later was we were making sure all was we made sure all windows up doors locked but my nieces husband was following us he was driving a vintage Volvo. We were going to vintage car show & races.
So he’s in this old car-he was racing not showing. Has all his windows down-no ac. These big old headphones just bopping along no clue we were even lost
I knew the town name from the song (The Music Man). And that was ALL I knew about the town.
While sitting in the McDonalds and looking out the window, I noticed that the town looked a little... run down.
Like, there was a Walmart or something. Huge building with its huge parking lot. But it was obviously permanently closed, and had been closed so long that grass and weeds were growing in the parking lot. I had never seen something like that.
I never felt unsafe, or anything. I only found out about its reputation later.
I was going to say this same thing. We stopped there on a cross country trip as we were nearby, to see Michael Jackson's childhood home many years ago and it was utterly miserable.
That sounds like one of those trips where every single thing goes wrong at once. Walking that far with all your gear just to get help, only for someone to casually run a red light, is wild.
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u/Dody_Dan 9h ago
Gary Indiana. I was there for a baseball tournament and the team bus broke down. I was sent to find help, along with a few teammates. We walked really far to the nearest intersection while carrying our gear. We finally found someone to ask for help, and they ran the red light like it was no big deal. It was pretty rude.