I got into a ride‑share after my car broke down and the driver called me by my full name - my private middle name - and then told me he’d been waiting for this ride.
I ran.
I’m still running.
I’m telling this because it happened to me and because I need other women to hear what can happen when a stranger knows more than they should.
One ordinary Tuesday night my car died on the M2. A black Audi arrived, the driver said my name like he owned it, and then he started reciting details about my life that no app should know. When I tried to get out, the door was locked. I escaped by throwing myself from the car and running across gravel. The police found the car abandoned; the driver vanished.
This episode is a tight, urgent account of that ride: the small, chilling moments that made my skin crawl, the instant I realized this wasn’t a routine pickup, and the raw panic of getting out alive.
If you listen to safety stories, true‑crime warnings, or tense personal horror, press play.
Not for kids - listener discretion advised.
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