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A TEENAGE COUPLE WENT FOR A DRIVE AND THEY RAN OUT OF GAS,
THE BOY SAID HE WOULD GO FOR GAS, AND WHILE HE WAS GONE, HE
TOLD THE GIRL NOT TO LEAVE THE CAR, BECAUSE THERE HAD BEEN
STORIES OF WEIRD HAPPENINGS IN THE AREA. WHEN HE RETURNED
WITH THE GAS, THEY GOT READY TO LEAVE, BUT THEY HEARD THIS
DRIP, DRIP, DRIP. FINALLY, THEY DISCOVERED WHAT IT WAS:
BLOOD WAS DRIPPING ON THE HOOD OF THE CAR.

Submitter comment: THIS WAS AN OLD BOY SCOUT STORY CIRCULATING WHEN THE INFORMANT
WAS A BOY SCOUT.

James Callow comment: PARKING TABU NOT APPARENT IN THIS TALE.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ordinary Tale

Date learned: 11-00-1972

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