So Keven I was thinking about the you know the time when I was my most frightening experience and I think it was when I was I don't know I was about like 21, 22 and I'd been to this disco in town this was in England and coming back at about 2 in the meaning and I'd got about a 30 minute walk back home, it was quite close to the center of town

summertime?

Yep

So it was raining? It's an England story, it's gotta be raining

It wasn't raining - it was the day when it didn't rain! So walking back and I'd got about fairly close to where I lived so got out of town to the area where I lived and I felt pretty safe there

yeah

you know normally in England you don't worry much about violence, it's not a problem so I was walking along and I heard these footsteps behind me and I look round there were four skinheads, right, with their heads shaved, about 16, 15-16

yeah, yeah

not that old but I was already a little bit kind of nervous of skinheads anyway and I could hear them talking and I keep on walking and I can hear the footsteps getting a little bit closer so I don’t break into a run but I just walk a little bit faster, trying to act cool but in fact my heart is going 'Boom boom boom!'

They've got the boots on so you can hear every step?

They've got boots on, short trousers up to here with the boots on, short trousers up to here with the braces holding up their trousers

yeah, yeah, yeah

and shaven heads, so I'm walking faster, I can hear the footsteps getting closer and they pick up their pace as well

yeah

'Oh my God!' and then I can hear them say "Right let's get the ...!", you know "Let’s get him!" I thought "Oh my God!" So I just, OK, forget about walking, run!

Run away!

and I just ran as fast as I could. I took a I took a turn off the street and they didn't follow me, I thought "Oh, good, I've got rid of them" like going round a square, right, so take up a street and then a left and of course what they’d done they'd gone left and then right so they met me.

They might have been skinheads but they weren't stupid

yeah they weren't stupid so they met me just at the kind of intersection

yeah

and of course I was racing flat out I mean I was terrified because this was they were just coming home from they'd been into town, 2 in the morning, and I guess they

They'd been at the pub, probably

they'd been drinking and they hadn't had any fun that night and I was gonna be their fun but I wasn't gonna hang around to wait to see what they did to me.

yeah

Anyway, so I just got to the intersection before they did and I had about another 100 yards to race and I got into my house and I just got in, I think I was about like 10 yards ahead of them I mean I was about only two or three seconds,

You had the key ready and the hand shaking?

Yeah, yeah I was sort of shaking, quickly get in to the door open and slam! And they never did anything after that, right, they didn't attack the house

yeah

they didn't throw bricks or anything. To them maybe it was a joke but my heart was going so fast because I think "Well if they get me, who knows?" you know and I can't fight

yeah

right, and I thought "They may kill me, who knows?" I was absolutely terrified.