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lunatica

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8. You know those parts where you are sizing up the situation
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 09:16 PM
Jul 2019

doing things like figuring out how far to park from him, and where he was strategically located at all times and then having him suddenly walk to the sign? The fact you realized he was pretending to read the sign but you knew he was looking at you.

That’s called stalking and it happens to women more often than you think. As a woman I would have done any one of the following things.

I would have considered driving on to the next stop. Men can usually overpower a woman quite easily and they can run faster and catch her if she runs. The only possible thing to stop such a man would be to have a weapon handy.

If I absolutely had to go to the bathroom and knew I couldn’t hold it I would make it obvious that I was carrying a weapon. Something like holding my purse with one hand while sticking the other hand into it as if I was holding a weapon.

But the fact is, all the above is a fantasy. I would drive the hell out of there and piss in the car if I couldn’t hold it and to hell with it. What made you nervous would terrify a woman. Just take what you felt and add a big dose of terror to it and you know how women feel many times throughout their lives.

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