White Van Man

At 4.45 pm I had finished work and was walking along Wellington Road for the bus, it was a lovely day.  Suddenly I heard a loud car horn beeping and a white van passed me slowly.  I carried on walking and the van did a u turn ahead of me.  I didn't like the look of this so I decided to cross the road quickly to the bus stop opposite.  While I was crossing the white van approached beeping more.  I thought I’d better take a look as it might be someone I know and I would feel bad.  The van pulled up at the kerb just by the bus stop and looked in the window, a bloke I had never seen before leaned over and opened the door.  He was in his early thirties and wearing work clothes with a company logo on.  He offered to give me a lift.  I politely refused and told him “I don’t even know you”, to which he replied “but you can still have a lift can’t you”.  I told him “No I can’t”, just as the bus pulled up and to be on the safe side I jumped on the bus.  I spent the journey exchanging texts with my sister in law about what had happened and reading some more of Dan Brown’s thriller, Digital Fortress, another riveting read.  When I looked out of the bus window I had no idea where I was which wasn't at all surprising as I had jumped on the wrong bus.  Suffice to say I arrived home half an hour later than usual and if I am honest my self-esteem was properly puffed up,