Reply #56: Once when my 2 kids were preschool-aged, I was at the [View All]

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park playing with them when a young man in his 20s, who was at a picnic table with a couple, got up and sauntered cockily toward me, obviously intending to try to chat me up. Though I was in my mid-thirties at the time, I was quite attractive and much younger-looking then, but I have always had in my repertoire a look that can melt metal.

As he got closer I gave him that look, and when he was close enough I snarled, "Are we bothering you?"

He faltered and said, "Uh, I just thought we could talk."

I hissed back, "I don't think so." He scurried back to his friends with his tail tucked between his legs.

I gathered up my little ones and left the park, thoroughly pissed that our playtime had been interrupted by this little SOB who couldn't imagine that he didn't have the right to try to pick up any young woman he saw, even if she was at the park playing with her children.

Men need to respect the fact that we have a right to use public spaces without being harrassed by any idiot who thinks we look cute.