The day I realized I likely dodged a bullet

Throwaway account because I didn’t want this on my main profile, although I am sure this will be found by an old friend and confirmed soon. Anyway, this was about 7 years ago in a Walmart parking lot. My husband and I were out shopping for school clothes for our children. It was extremely late (maybe 11pm) and the store was closing soon. We had grabbed everything we needed and were sitting in the truck waiting for my son to wake up so we could leave. <br><br>While waiting I noticed a truck pull into the spot next to us. This was a black pickup truck with tinted windows. There was obviously someone in the drivers seat, and it looked like there might have been another person in the passenger seat as well. It was a full size truck, the front of the truck was hiding the person in the passenger seat. <br><br>I couldn’t see anyone in the other parking spots leaving or pulling in anywhere close to us, and we were in the very last row of the parking lot close to the highway. The only people in the parking lot were a couple walking to their car maybe 10-15 feet away from us. This couple was about to leave as the vehicle next to us pulled in. The man and woman were walking away from their car towards us, towards the truck that had just pulled in next to ours. <br><br>I don’t know why, but as soon as they turned their backs to us and started walking away from their car, my husband and I both looked at each other and we could tell something wasn’t right. The parking lot was empty, and it was super late. It wasn’t until then that I really noticed the truck. The two people inside weren’t doing anything, and the car that had pulled in next to us left the spot as if nothing was going on. <br><br>I jumped out of the truck and ran over to the couple walking away from their car and screamed “get in your car!”. I don’t know if they thought I was crazy or what, but they looked at me and back at each other and got in their car and drove off. I jumped back in my car and told my husband to leave. We got out of there ASAP, but not before I snapped a picture of the truck as it was driving away. <br><br>The next day I looked closer at the pictures I had taken and I noticed something. The truck had a license plate from another state, but the vehicle identification number showed it was registered in our state. This wasn’t the weirdest part though. The vehicle identification number belonged to a completely different make and model of truck. <br><br>I showed this to a friend who currently works as a police officer. He ran the license plate and couldn’t find anything on it. He also couldn’t find anything on the vehicle identification number. He told me that he was showing this off to other officers at work and no one could find anything on it. <br><br>This all happened 7 years ago, and it still gives me chills. The pictures I took that night are still on my phone. I sometimes think about what would have happened had I not seen that truck, or had the couple not been paying attention to the situation and gotten in their car.