i seem to attract creeps

[Ava]

i went to wendy's to buy a baked potato for lunch. while in line a guy made conversation with me about the weather(yes, the weather), so i went along with it and just wanted to get through line quickly. so i get up to order, order my potato, reach for my wallet to pay and weird guy from before offered to pay(to which of course i said no).. weird guy turned into creepy guy. then i get my potato, go out to my car and pull out and notice that creepy guy is in his car behind me, which at first i think is just him leaving too, but he then proceeds to make every turn i make and follow me halfway across town. at this point i'm really getting freaked out because creepy guy has turned into uber-creepy guy. i pulled into the court house(where there are always loads of cop cars), pull up to next to one and then notice creepy guy must get the message because he went around and left. i waited there for a few minutes and then went back to the office, but that really freaked me out.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Ava...

Oh, that is scary, sweetie...

But you did the right things, all of them!

Not everyone would have had the presence of mind to run by the court house, where the cop cars are...

I would not say that, based on one incident, you attract the creeps...

Unless there's been others that you haven't told us about...

I suspect that this was just one of those things...

You did really well, sweetie...:hug:

[Ava]

3. it was creepy

i just seem to get hit on by creeps a lot in grocery stores and such. just a tad bit scary, but i always manage to deal with it well. ;)

[NightWatcher]

2. excellent counter-surveillance move

this what I tell clients to do in similar situations


way to use common sense, be safe

[Ava]

4. i figured either the court house or police station

and at this time of the day the court house has more cop cars there than the police station

what is weird is that the guy couldn't have been too much older than me, which was why it didn't seem creepy when he started talking to me in line, but him offering to pay for my food and then following me was just waay creepy.

[DS1]

5. maybe you dropped your spork

:rofl:



- good move with the courthouse, try get the plate next time ;-)

[Ava]

6. they were behind me.. remember?

couldn't have gotten the place :shrug:

[DS1]

15. speed up and look in the mirror

unless they don't require front plates in your state. They do up here.

[Ava]

22. they are just on the back of the cars here

it's alabama dude! :P

[Archae]

7. Ava, you attract creeps, I attract Freeper-types.

Since I post a lot of "liberal" (to the Freeper-types, anything critical of Bush or the GOP is "liberal,") entries on my LiveJournal, I get my share of the right-wing jerks.
Including neo-Nazis! :crazy:

The neo-Nazis though always post anonymously, and they get deleted.

[Ava]

8. lord, you should see the emails and comment i get on my blog

it's awful... freeper types are the worst

[supernova]

9. Smart move there

:pals:

Going to the courthouse. :thumbsup:

I used to think I attracted creeps too. I'm very open usually and will converse at least superficially with just about everybody. Easy to do in a smallish college town. My latest creep was someone who sat next to me at the bar at the gourmet store while I tried to eat lunch. :wow:

I'm a lot kinder to myself now. I think really, it's just that the creeps are much more opportunistic than the nice guys. They are shameless and will interact with any of us just to see who bites. And they perpetually read more than is there (mistaking general civility for some kind of flirtation is quite common).

You didn't do anything wrong at all to attract him. He was purposefully fishing for a mark.

:hug:

[CreekDog]

10. It must make you afraid to talk or be friendly to anybody

I apologize on behalf of my stupider gender.

:pals:

[Ava]

11. i got me a tazer about a year ago

i should keep it in my car, but i'm a bit afraid to do that. however, i'm not really scared of talking to people, but when something like that happens it is a bit creepy. i just have to think fast and come up with a solution though, and thankfully i've been to the courthouse to file stuff enough that i know there is always a lot of cop cars parked there.

[supernova]

12. It does make it harder

to discern in five seconds a great guy you might want to know better from a creep who gives you the willies, that's for sure.

[stuntcat]

13. sheese watch out for creeps like that!

It's a good thing for you that you're smart and that people were around and that it was daytime.
I've read so much about serial killers that I just don't trust anyone who's even a little weird, and that guy sounds as creepy as they come :scared:

I hope you told the people that you work with about it, just to let people know and stuff.

[zonkers]

14. Good idea to be vigilant. I accidently cut someone off once. They followed me for blocks.

Like you, I pulled in front of a gov. building (police station). Necx time get the license plates if you can.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. There are more creeps than those that are not.

Believe me, Ava. It's not just you.

[SoxFan]

17. You should run for office!

You will be prepared for all of the interesting "fan mail" thay you will receive from all sorts of "innerestin'" characters!

[1gobluedem]

18. Smart move, going to the courthouse

That could have been really scary. Good thinking on your part.

[DarkTirade]

19. Okay, THAT is creepy.

I really don't get some people. I was just talking to a friend of mine on the phone and she was complaining that there's a creepy 40-something-year-old who keeps trying to hit on her all the time. And she's 23. He just won't take a hint.

You just have to wonder what's going on in their brain that makes them think this is normal and/or acceptable behaviour.

[applegrove]

20. That does sound creepy.

[SKKY]

21. This happened to my wife once, in Oak Harbor, Washington of all places...

...she called me and said that someone was following her. I told her to come right home, and that I would be waiting for her in the driveway. Now, we lived in on a dead-end street, so this guy following her must have jumped for joy because he kept following. She pulled into the driveway, and he slllloooowwwly drove by. This particular Uber-creepy guy was not too thrilled to find that Uber-pissed husband was waiting in front of his house with a can of whoop-ass, and a video camera. He turned around quickly and sped off.

[Skittles]

23. YOU WANT I SHOULD KICK SOME CREEP ASS, AVA?

THEM'S MY FAVORITES

[Pied Piper]

24. I had a creep follow me once

I was running some errands at the drug store, post office, and hardware store, all of which are on the street level of a big apartment building. I noticed the guy staring at me in the drug store, no big deal. But then he was behind me in line in the post office, and then in the next aisle in the hardware store, and he wasn't carrying any packages, considering how many stores he had been in. My office is only across the street so I went on (on a Saturday) using my security badge. I told the security guard not to let the creep in. Since my office building occupies nearly a full city block, I walked through the building and exited through another door about a block away from said creep. Haven't seen him since.

It's no fun being followed by a creepy dude, and I'm a guy!

[ismnotwasm]

25. That's beyond creepy

That's stalking. What an asshole.

[lightningandsnow]

26. Shite!

Damn... that is creepy.

Sorry you had to go through that.

[Inchworm]

27. Yer perdy

:silly:

Good thinking on your part.

:yourock:

[HughBeaumont]

28. You need to walk around with tear gas.

[Ava]

29. i don't like making people cry

:P