The bowling pub

Some friends of mine here and I decided to go bowling. Being the Czech Republic the bowling alley was a pub which suited us all fine. But none of us knew the way. So we went to this pub where the owner said he would show us the way. We were all fine with this because, although it was dark and the town was empty, we couldn't make sense of the directions and we were in a large group. Also there were houses all around us so we felt relatively safe.

But on the way the man said he'd take us on a short cut. We were slightly weary of this but went along with it. The short cut took us along some sidestreet which was dark as there weren't many street lights. It then went into this foresty path. It was pitch black and one of my roommates got out his phone which had a light on it, allowing us to see a little. So we carried on walking slowly in a line as the path was very thin when suddenly the person in front of me started to back up slowly. He then ran and the people in front started to scream to run. I turned around and started to sprint away but tripped over because the path was so thin (and I couldn't see where I was going). But I quickly stood up and carried on sprinting while thinking to myself if this were a horror movie I would have been the idiot who falls over and the killer then kills.

We all stopped back in the town and were wondering what had happened. Apparently the man had suddenly stopped and reached into his pocket grinning, at which point they had started backing off slowly before running. It all sounded surreal and a bit stupid. Then we saw the man walking towards us. He was swearing at us in Czech (obviously) and was shouting at us saying that he just wanted to help us and we embarrased him. He walked off, still swearing at us. We all felt bad but at the same time thought he over reacted because we were only looking out for our safety and what we did was completely understandable.

We decided to apologise and so went back to his pub which was now closed. We knocked on the door anyway and he answered, asking what we wanted (not knowing it was us). We started to apologise and in answer got told to f**k off (well the equivalent in Czech) so we did.

We decided we didn't want to go bowling anymore and went to a pub down the road instead where you can play pool. It was a fun but very surreal evening; definately one I won't forget.