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Men in Black...
and Cookies
by ATarrC
This true story happened in the summer of 1999. Three friends and I were in an apartment complex made for married couples with children while they attended the University of Northern Iowa. One of my friend's mom was an employee at the school, so she and her sons stayed in the complex with her. Anyway, one July night at midnight we started walking through the complex to the sidewalks that connected with the campus. One of us stopped and pointed to the edge of the sidewalk, which was about 50 feet away. There was this gray-haired man wearing a black silk shirt tucked into khakis pants. He was holding two plastic sacks. Behind him were two men in black cloaks walking in stride together with their hands crossed. My friends and I hustled back over to the corner of last building in the complex where we continued to watch in astonishment as the gray-haired man swung the bags into the woods along the sidewalk. As he turned around, a couple of my friends popped out from the corner. He made eye contact with them, then returned to the woods and grabbed one of the plastic sacks he threw in. He and the two "reapers" walked off toward the front of the complex.
After they walked past, we went to the spot with the sack. My friend Nick, went in to retrieve it. We all huddled around as he pulled out what looked like steering wheel-sized sugar cookies. What the hell?
There are just a lot of unanswered questions, like: What was in the other bag? Why were they throwing sugar cookies in the bushes? What were guys like this doing in a married student housing complex? Why the hell were they dressed in black cloaks... in the middle of July?
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