It's not all glitz and glamour.

I want to share an experience I recently had, it was definitely one of those things that makes you stop and think. I won't mention any names because I don't feel that would be appropriate, but I feel that it is something all young women should be aware of and not just in sport but in general.

Last week when the NASCAR races were in town, I was scheduled to meet and discuss some business opportunities with someone who I met a couple years ago when I was back East testing. He is a very legitimate guy in the business he is in. I trusted him and was excited to meet up and toss around some ideas (Also excited to get to go to my first NASCAR race as I had never been before). I was getting introductions to some potentially helpful people. He gave me a call when he got to town to set up a time to get together. I figured we would meet up for dinner and go to the USAC races at the Speedway but that wasn't exactly what he had in mind...

When he called he told me the hotel he was staying at, that I could show up, valet my car and he would pay for everything that weekend, even if i wanted to go to the SPA! (What girl wouldn't want to go to the spa right?) This was my first tip off that something fishy was going on. After all, I know that if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. Then he told me to just meet him at his hotel room! I don't think so! Not to mention he is more than twice my age! That is when I said no way! He was being extremely pushy about it, I suggested Starbucks or a restaurant as that's where any normal meet up would be. But he was not keen on any of those ideas, so I said fine I am not going to put myself into a awkward, scarey, probably dangerous and shady situation. I ended the call.
He continued to text and call me several more times over the span of a few days and I did not answer. I sent one message explaining to him in a very politically correct way that he had been trying to put me into a situation that no young women should be getting herself into. Judging by his response I'm pretty sure he didn't get it. Those are not the people you should be associating yourself with anyway.

After all this happened it took a little bit to realize what had just happened. Those are the kind of things you see on TV, where a young person gets offered the world and would do anything to get where they're going and get themselves in trouble.
I suppose I have my family to thank for bringing me up the right way so I would be able to detect a situation like this. In any event its kind of strange to tell this story to the world but I feel like its something that needs to be put out there. I was lucky enough to avoid it and hopefully other girls will be too! :)