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he had heard was actually the cycling of the refrigeration units. There was no telling how long the truck driver had actually been there.
                  Even still, Richard kept his toilet seat at the ready. He advanced to the end of the small hallway and peeped around the corner into the main section of the store.
                  No angry trucker there either.
                  He cautiously crept out until he was wholly between two aisles and could see the entire parking lot.
                  “Hey, hey man, you gotta pay for your gas now before I call the cops.”
                  It was the store clerk, but Richard could not grant him attention until he knew the coast was clear.
                  A quick survey of the parking lot revealed that the semi truck and driver had driven on. Richard breathed a sigh of relief and lowered the toilet seat.
                  No longer needing his disgusting white weapon, he tried to casually shove it onto a shelf lined with bread, however the screws on the hinge mounts made the task difficult as they tore into the plastic bread bags. Eventually, Richard was able to shove it onto the shelf far enough that it stayed.
                  He went up to the register and gave the clerk forty dollars in cash, which he figured would cover the gas he pumped and some of the damage to the restroom facilities. Then he left the store.
                  “Hey! Hey, what gives man!” The clerk called after him as he left. Perhaps he had now seen the bread aisle. Richard didn’t even glance back though, he had to get going. They would be right on top of him any moment now.
                  As he climbed into his car, he noticed that the pump showed that $157 dollars was owed. The truck driver had no doubt pumped a full tank of diesel into his truck thinking that Richard would pay for it out of guilt. That could be why the clerk now looked as though he was phoning the police. Just another thing to worry about, Richard thought as he sped out of the station and back onto the dark road that lay before him.
                  As he drove, he kept glancing in his rearview to see if he was being followed, there was nothing but darkness. The road did not have any street lights, nor did it have any near by structures to offer light. Thick woods and cropland ran intermittent on both sides of the dark road.
                  Richard drove for perhaps another ten miles before he first saw the light. It appeared suddenly outside the passenger window of his car. At first he thought that maybe he was coming up on the intersection of some crossroad, but then the light began to gain altitude. It ascended from the level of a road and went upwards into the treetops. Soon it was high enough in the sky to be seen above the trees. It was a large pyramid shaped object that glowed white on all edges. It came across the trees and into the road in front of Richard’s car forcing Richard to shield his eyes.
    Richard was astonished that he was actually bearing witness to what had to be a UFO. He leaned over and fumbled for his camera in the passenger seat.              Then suddenly the car stalled out and all the lights on the dash went dark. He rolled to a stop and could only sit there while the light hovered brightly above him. Then as suddenly as it had come upon him, it flew away over the trees to his left.
                  The car miraculously restarted some seconds later, leaving Richard breathless in shock at what had just happened. He leaned forward trying to peer out the windshield for any sign of the light or the pyramid, but saw none. He ran a brief checklist in his head for the car and established that he couldn’t find anything wrong with it. He was just about to begin driving again, when suddenly the light appeared once more, this time directly over him. It was