I briefly dated a guy who was smart, sensitive, and sweet. The problem was he stretched the truth sometimes. Ok, a lot of times. It got to the point where I had to stop and analyze everything he said to me to try to figure out whether it was the truth or whether it was another one of his fantasies.
One fine day, he was all about heading up to Bellair market on Ivy Rd, grabbing two of their yummy samiches and heading off to what he called his “secret spot” for some summertime alonetime. I know, sounds romantic, right? Little did I know.
So we go to Bellair, get our picnic fare and pull back out onto the road. I’m imagining him taking me into Crozet, to have lunch in the mountains, in some lovely sunny spot. Psych. Right out of the gas station we make an immediate left into a driveway before you get to Birdwood/Ednam/Boar’s Head. It’s not labeled or anything so I’m not sure what it’s called , but he drives back and there is this huge gorgeous house. Empty, but obviously not abandoned or anything. He says, “I come here all the time, to think. There’s never anyone here.” I look at a back door and there in plain sight is a white cargo van. There is obviously someone in this house, setting up for a catering gig or cleaning or the like. I look around and the grounds are landscaped, the windows clean.
I say, “This is your secret spot?”
He says, “What do you think?”
I say, “I think this is called TRESPASSING.”
And made him drive me home.
Do any of you know of any actual secluded spots to take a S.O. and hang out? I’ve heard of spots in the gardens at UVa or places in Sugar Hollow, and stumbled across many an abandoned mattress/bench while running through the woods…Any cool places to go? Without breaking the law/being creepy?
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Parlie
no.
I’ve got a giant pit in my basement. And I collect rare moths. Anyone wanna come over?
Trespassing only adds to the excitement.
Poland is nice
Alderman library - so I’ve heard
@4:It wasn’t the trespassing so much but the fact that he thought this was *his* secret spot.
Yes.
It wasn’t the trespassing
But its all in caps, so you can at least see my confusion.
@7: i think it was that either a. he was unIntelleigent in some manner or
b. LYING(sorry to confuse b.yo- lying)
because I was aghast that he comes to this property all the time and studies and it’s quite clearly not some abandoned building or anything and he hangs out there. wtf? that’s not romantic. it’s creepy.
It’s creepy. My secret spot is inside on of the round clothing racks at the Fashion Bug.
comes to this property all the time
And yet he’s never gotten into any trouble? No harm no foul, I say. I agree its not romantic, but I don’t see how its creepy.
Shen, why did you have to go telling people my secret spot is creepy!?
How am I supposed to bring other ladies there?
Shen dates creepy guys, thus anything they do, be definition, is creepy, no?
@14
C’mon, we all know the van seat in the woods is your ’secret spot’. 
@13: Hmm, I don’t know how to explain. It’s like he was always making stuff and in his head and so he actually thought this was *his* place. But it belongs to someone else. But in his head it was his little secret garden or whatever.
I think the secret spot in question is the Birdwood Pavillion, which was the home attached to all the land that Birdwood Golf Course now occupies. UVa owns both and uses the home for special events.
@12: Haha. I used to totally chill in those while my mom was shopping.
@14: You’re still got that culvert behind Arby’s.
@15: What? No I don’t.
@17: So was he schizophrenic?
Show me, on the doll, where he said his secret spot was.
Fair enough. I guess I just don’t get it because I find reality to be so highly over rated.
“Secret garden in your head” just sounds absolutely cool to me, but my grey matter may be damaged.
I’d like to call this room at the omni my secret spot, but I don’t think they’ll let me stay on a permanent basis.
/barricading the door
Yeah… I’ve known a lot of ’secret spots’ over the years that were technically trespassing. Let’s be honest… outside of the teeny tiny city lot sized parcel that I actually own… I’m trespassing a lot.
This one may not have been the most romantic place, but it sounds like he was at least trying to share something with you.
this is neither secret nor lawful, but before the UVA police jerry-rigged it with sensors - that i found out about the hard way - the water towers on top of o-hill were a favorite spot. for, uh, picknicking and other sorts of activities.
You can go to the garden behind the Historical Society- no one is ever there. It’s very nice this time of year
Watch out for the homeless guy in the bushes. one guy keeps a penhouse copy there. Maybe shen should go and check it out.
one guy keeps a penhouse copy there
Well, the pen is mightier…
@28 did you put in an extra space?
When I was an undergrad at UVA, you could get up onto the roof of Gilmer Hall through a janitors closet door that was usually unlocked. I haven’t tried it in like 6 years, but it was awesome back in the day. A rare secret place right in the middle of grounds.
There is a secret hammock hanging from the oculus of the rotunda where I used to take my dates. But I wasn’t a student, so it was technically trespassing and that creeped them out. At least Im pretty sure it was that and not my latex codpiece.
Ah yes, the roof of Gilmer… I spent far too much of my undergrad career wandering around that building. The whole thing is a crazy maze of secret places. I think whoever designed and/or built it knew it was going to be the psych building and was hoping to mess with people’s heads.
@31 latex codpiece- where you the lead singer for Cameo? the funk band that did “word up”
Word Up? I thought that was Van Halen. Least thats what I heard…
@31: It was definitely the codpiece.
there are lots of neat secret spots in and around charlottesville.
there’s the steam tunnels that run underneath uva. if you go into the basement of the chemistry building there’s an access door above a ladder that you can’t miss.
plus there’s the blue ridge tunnel, aka the crozet tunnel. claudius crozet was the engineer, and when it was built it was the longest tunnel in the world. plus it was the first train tunnel to use the slope of the mountain to have smoke and water exit the tunnel from one side. pretty amazing. now it’s trespassing to be there, but even when there were surveyors there i didn’t get in trouble for being there. if you drive 250 across to waynesboro and park on the side by the train over pass and walk over to the left of the tracks going east you cant miss the path. i mean how awesome is an abandoned train tunnel. i highly suggest it.
Darden Towe park, turn left and walk down a short trail to a little beach on the river
awesome lenore and batesville!
@36 + 37: Oh yeah, keep ‘em coming.
FWIW there are a lot of mattresses in the woods behind KMart. Don’t ask me how I now that.
I go down to that river for kayaking - ewwww
yeah the river is MCNASTY. don’t forget to bring a… hazmat suit.
the back of the jefferson theater was interesting
church would be funny
The back of a Volkswagen is v. uncomfortable.
Shen, you’re not supposed to do that to cars. Poor Volkswagen.
the front of a volkswagen is very uncomfortable too.
@43 tell me about it been seein a chiropractor religiously ever since
/stolen from months old thread/
@42 outside a monastery in florence.
@47 - Excellent ! You blasphemer. Love it.
Secluded Farm trails, next to the Monticello trail, has a branch that goes all the way to the top of Carter Mountain, just below the orchard. It’s a strenuous hike, but well worth the view, with several picnic spots.
@36 I heard the steam tunnels are locked up pretty tight these days. and it used to be hot as shit down there - no joke. And isn’t that tunnel in crozet bricked up? I hear they’re going to reopen it at some point. I regret never having walked through it when it was open.
Alright how about - rt 151 to left on rt 6, go about half a mile, on your right you will see a rock outcropping on the Rockfish River. There is a right turn that is very easy to miss. This is a good place to go after picking up a little Blue Mtn. beer.
or, even more secluded
Rt. 250 to left on Miller School Rd. right on Dick Woods left on Burches Creek. At the bottom of the road you come to an open ford, turn right before crossing ford up trail. Park and walk if no 4×4. Another very nice outcropping to drink, sunbathe and………
if I told you it wouldn’t be a secret now would it?
@51, thanks, i’ve been meaning to check out a couple of those little bends in the Rockfish for years now but only ever get down there when i’m on my way to WG (and already late). good trout fishing down there?
Never fished for trout on the Rockfish, but the smallmouth and brim fishing is pretty good. Nothing very big, but alot of fun with a flyrod.
If I was trout fishing I’d prolly try the Mormons River out 810
@52: smartass
@53, 54: Ew, don’t turn this into a fish aobut fishing. Unless of course, you are going alone with a lady friend.
. laugh.
you’re talking about having sex in public and you don’t want to break the law or be creepy? Loosen up.
Top Ten public places to have sex in Charlottesville:
10. The woods. We have lots of woods here.
9. 216 out in the open. Expect a crowd.
8. Apartment pools at night. Not your own complex.
7. Easy to access roofs: Tea Bazaar’s neighboring building; Live Arts; ACAC Downtown; Seminole Square.
6. The fitting rooms at Belk are fucking perfect except eventually the employees will knock and ask if you “need any help”. Cover yourself by letting them see you bring in a BUNCH of clothes. Let your lover in after they’ve gone back to work.
5. Any UVA computer lab between 4am and 7am.
4. The old bombed out IX building where they had Shentai.
3. Get yourself locked into Alderman Library after closing then go to town. The doors open from the inside so you’re not locked in.
2. Empty classrooms in Cabell Hall at night. Lock the door behind you.
1. The Lawn Gardens while role-playing Thomas and Sally. Who knew the real reason for a serpentine wall was to give slaves grooves in which to fuck.
If only you knew that this list isn’t a joke. *sigh*
Jeff Theater used to be awesome too. So did the closed-down Paramount. Anyplace that’s shut down or under construction is fucking awesome. I fucking love finding the spot that’s so sweet you can get loud. Oh my god the slutty expulsions that fly free from me during public sex. Fuck. Yeah. The trick is having the thrill of possibly getting caught while knowing in the back of your mind you probably won’t. This is such a small town at heart that lots of buildings are left wide open at night or in the morning.
My worst enemy is the early morning custodian. Nothing worse than being in that zone where you’re overconfident about the new spot, prancing around high, naked and drunk, been there since 2:45, shouting the loveliest sexpulsions like “drink my yumyum juice you feckin’ sexpig!” and at 5:14 you hear the unmistakable clickclick-squeeeak-rollbumbum-rollbumbum of a janitor with a wheeled yellow bucket approaching. At that point you’re more mad at her than afraid of getting caught.
Ah!!! oh I’ve just remembered: the true sweet spot is late night Saturday/early morning sunday…overnight janitors seem to usually have Sunday morning off!
Fuck I’m gonna get so hot thinkin’ about all you cVillains having public sex everywhere because of me!
@54 Nothing very big, but alot of fun with a flyrod.
I’m not sure batesville’s on about fishing here, Shen. In fact, it may be the most on-topic and revealing comment on this whole thread so far.
I’m going to go ahead and rescind the second sentence of #59 after reading #58.
“sexpulsions” - another one I’m stealing. wow, I’ve really been sleeping in too late.
@57: I didn’t go there to have sex. I went to eat sammiches and talk. But thank you for the list of places to have sex. I would definitely love to get freaky in the IX building.
oh, this thread is about talking? bo-ring!
Im with orchid on this one. What’s the point of dragging this thread to the gutter if we have to talk about our feelings?
buzzkill
lolo you still owe me one…
I do?
do tell sweet caroline..
i serenaded you with the gambler and you said we would make out.
yes - as long as we don’t have to listen to the gambler.
we should call this cvillain after hours…meow
rowrrrrrrrr
okay we will listen to Neil Diamond, now scoot ovah….
Caroline! How are you sweety? You may have missed it, but CLAW made the front page of the progress today! Tell me you’ll be up for the next one (lolo was there, *hint *hint)
hey hips! I’ll check it out….I will really try to make the next one. CLIQUE alert!!
Check your email….
Alderman library has added a lot of cameras’ lately. You might want to watch where you hide… I suggest the old stacks on the third floor, facing the Tennis Courts. There are many blind spots here and also a lot of space for ’stretching out.’
Don’t worry about being locked in. A lot of people still sleep through all the GET OUT warnings and upon realization hours later, walk out the fourth floor… dazed.
@55 loves her? XO
sheflannigans: you didn’t go there to have sex, but he did
@77: Hate to burst your sex-crazed bubble but we never hooked up. I think he was a virgin actually.
i thought we wernt to talk of fish
There’s a totally sweet space in the Ivy area known to locals as “Narnia,” but I would get my butt kicked if I gabbed exactly where it is. You go down a trail in the woods and it opens up into grassy field with trees and a stream running through (and a couple of benches). You’d never know it was there if you were just passing by. Awesome spring / summer destination.
There’s a totally sweet space… but I would get my butt kicked if I gabbed exactly where it is.
Well, then. Thanks for sharing.
@ACD: Aghhh! You tease. I must find this Narnia!
@82- Duh, check out the wardrobe?
@83: Smartass!
I prefer to think of myself as sexually healthy. I would’ve taken his virginity and swung it around like a lassooo while I rode ‘im cowboy.