Who knows?

I continued to watch women in tight skirts walk past, hearing their high-heels click across the pavement. Men and women strolled past at times. Finally, I decided I could not stay there for the rest of my life. I had to make a dash out into the open again if I was ever going to get back to my car.

Waiting for just the right amount of foot traffic to die down, I took a deep breath and leapt out onto the sidewalk. My bare feet was familiar to the feel of gritty concrete. I had decided to run in the direction I needed to go toward the parking garage. I kept one hand covering my genitals but that did not prevent people from eyeing me up and down as I met them coming toward me.

Three ladies all in their twenties carring shopping bags stopped talking amoung themselves when they noticed me. i passed them and said, "Sorry."

One of the women said, "Wow!"

I started to realize where I was in the city again. I needed to get over a block on the right, but before I could make another decision, I heard a man yell from behind.

"Stop!"

I glanced behind me and two blocks back a male policeman was running toward me. My worst fears were coming true. I saw an alley and made a quick turn to get out of sight. I ran over the bits of trash at my feet and looked up only to realize then the alley was a dead end. I was trapped and about to be arrested for indecent exposure. Part of me wanted to run back out the way I came until I saw the policeman rounding the corner of the alley. It was over.

I backed up out of panic and that's when I noticed that on the other side of a dumpster was an exit door to some building on my right. Without thinking I tried the door and it was unlocked. I tore inside and it was dark at first until my eyes could see a long dimly lit hallway. I ran down to the end and peeked out a door. Through the crack, I could see lots of people going to and fro and then I recognized a few stores and realized it was a shopping mall. I needed to be on the other side of this mall. The last thing I wanted to do was run through a mall naked, but that was no longer a choice since the police officer had entered the building from the alley the same way I did and now spotted me. I gritted my teeth and let out a groan before bursting through the door nearly knocking over a couple of elderly women.