When I was 14, being my first year of tripping but 3rd or 4th trip, I had planned on walking to a friend's house after school, since the weather was nice. First I had to go home, wait for my little brother to get home on the bus, stay with him 30 minutes then I could leave when my mom got home (at 4pm). So, being impatient and excited to trip, I had taken 3 hits of blue geltabs (which I hadn't tried yet) on the busride home at 2:45, figuring it would be kicking in as I walked out the door, and if it kicked in sooner I could avoid everyone and just go on my way.
Well it kicked in by the time I got home at 3:30, really hard. I was shell-shocked, and could barely think, but realized "I have to get out of here away from mom!!!". I had already got permission to go to my friends place, which was a half mile walk through town then almost a mile through the woods. My brother was making weird faces at me and peaked in on me when I went to my room, which freaked me out a second and made me nervous.
My mom gets home and I walk out the door and wave before she even gets out of her car, thinking to myself "damn that looked so unnatural, busted!". She said "Hi, wait up a minute". (Feelings of doom/anxiety/suicide). "Where are you and (friend) going to be today?"
I mumbled "We're going camping, uh I mean, walking in the woods" (said slow with what sounded like an insanely deep voice). Then she starts to talk about something and I say "I'm late can I go now?" then immediately regret it. But she just hands me her carphone (NOT a cellphone, a phone with big battery pack like a small briefcase) and tells me to be careful. I stick it in my backpack and begin walking, pouring sweat by now but thankful I made it out of there without any direct trouble.
As I'm walking on a straightaway, I notice 3 people walking towards me about 2-300 yards ahead, two on my side and one on the other side (and I still would think it looks weird for people on opposite sides of the road to walk in same direction, and surely did then), and my mind starts tricking me into all the menacing ways these people may look up close, and how they are probably so interested in me and will try to talk to me. So, before I get there, I am desperately trying to come up with ways to avoid them. I was on the side where 2 people, which I thought was good, given that they were walking close and may talk to each other.
However, as I get nearer, within 50 yards they are about 10 feet apart, one in front of the other, and the mindtricks become stronger. Visually its starting to become a melting mess, and I contemplate turning myself in at this time, but quickly scratch that, but it gives me an idea. I decide to pull out the carphone and act like I was talking on it. I remember them staring at me and I start to wonder if my plan is bad, but I avoid complete eye contact, keep the phone to my ear with one hand and hold the pack with the other... and they luckily don't talk to me.
Severely awkward! I had never personally seen anyone out in public with a phone before, so my plan was novel and a last ditch effort to focus attention away from me! The cellphone can still be used for this purpose!
The rest of the trip was very fun, actually, despite somewhat forgetting who my friend was (and who I was) by the time I arrived on autopilot.