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 "I'll take the girl in pink and blue," said a man behind me. While waiting at a stoplight with a friend last night in the chaos that is Halloween, I look down at my clothes and well, hey, I'm wearing my dark pink sweater with a blue t-shirt underneath. I shake my head and think, "Of all the scantily dressed girls tonight, why does he pick the normal looking one?" My friend and I continue walking but he latches on. He's skeazy looking, trying his best to make conversation. He says, "Do you watch the show Heroes? Do you think it's going to end?" I reply, "Umm, I don't know. I guess it's gotta end sometime, so..." I turn away and continue talking to my friend. He says, "Look, I'm just trying to have a serious conversation. I know you don't think I'm serious." And goes on about how we're trying to outwalk him and that he wasn't going anywhere. Now, I was out because I wanted to walk my friend safely back to the subway, and I also needed to get hand soap 'cause I was running low. We're nearing the subway at this point, and he still hasn't left. Near the entrance, he says something like this, "Look! We're TMZ! Look at the camera over there! I swear!" He starts pulling at some guy to join in but the other guy was looking at him like he was crazy. At this point I was annoyed, so I pulled my friend into the closest store. Eventually Skeazy Guy jets down the stairs into the subway station, probably realizing that nope, these girls aren't having it. Checking that the coast was clear, we walk back out and another guy approaches us. Except he was a good guy. He asked if we were alright because he saw Skeazy Guy pulling at my friend's arm. We said we were fine, thanks. He said people are weird on this day, and we agreed. My friend eventually got home, and yes, I eventually got my hand soap. It was just a world of no. I wasn't scared or anything because there were so many people milling around, but yeah, I was slightly sketched out. People can be so persistent. Even when it's not Halloween and when all the skeazeballs are out, people who are normally that pushy kind of sketches me out. It's like they know no bounds and it gets really frustrating because can't they take a hint? I'm being suffocated by your presence and I need to breathe! But what do you do in that kind of situation? (This has happened once or twice before but I've always had the buds in my ears and I usually ignore, pretending I don't hear anything.) I'm not about to go kick him in the balls or pepper spray him because he didn't do anything or make any kind of motion to do anything. Had I said, "Leave me alone," he would've gotten more adamant about not leaving and started asking why, what's wrong with me, etc. He was just being a nuisance. Anyway, skeazy guys like that are just wrong, and bad, and no. |
I loved this post, and yes, just keep walking and pretend you never heard them.
ah, scary. i remember in paris this guy grabbed my friend and started walking with us, and i pulled her back as she yanked his arm off her shoulders. i think we should take a self defense class.
Heh, Paris. A random guy kissed me as he walked by (on the cheek). So gross!! I stood in shock for a couple minutes.
But generally, yeah, pretend you never heard them is the way to go. It depends on how bad the sketch vibe is, too. Like, sometime they feel like mostly harmless, probably homeless guys just making some conversation, and I try to be nice to them. If I get creeped out at all though, just start walking faster and make up some excuse (have to get to work/class etc.)