Talk:My Innocent Job/@comment-25625305-20150904000218

I fixed a bunch of minor grammar mistakes. Didn't fix the misspelling of tow truck though. It's probably the only thing really saving this story from the can, and it's not much. I see where you got the idea of this story though.

The Let's Not Meet Sub-Reddit is pretty creepy, but the close call kind. The reason why those things work is because they're real and if the author was killed in end of the story, then how the heck did they post it? They're scary because of what could've been. Creepypastas aren't chained to reality though. Sure, it's nice the guy in the story avoided a terrible fate, but for a creepypasta, it's not creepy at all.

In creepypastas, stories like this usually work well when they tell the story of what didn't happen. They tell the story of what happened when the guy DIDN'T peel out of there like he did. They tell the story real victims can't. The kind of realistic creepypasta you're aiming for works best when it's about the worst possible situation. Yeah, he could still make it out fine in the end of the horrific predicament, but a spoooopy run-in with crime scene where the guy sorta brushed shoulders with almost peril is just... Not creepy enough on its own to warrant the title of a good creepypasta.