A huge man started banging on my door.... [View all]

[Honeycombe8]

This happened years ago.

I lived in an apt. that faced a semi-busy street. Apts. on both sides of the street. My complex had a grassy area between the apts. & the street.

One sunny day I was standing outside my apartment looking at or for something - I forget what, now, but maybe it was for a stray cat I'd seen. I was standing there just a few minutes, when a car passing on the street came to a fairly sudden stop. The stop was out of my eyesight, but I could hear it stopping, if you know what I mean.

Like a rabbit, my stranger danger radar kicked in, and I turned around to walk back into my apt. In my peripheral vision I could see his huge man (no exaggeration) walk from around the corner, quickly walking toward me and my apt. I scurried into my apartment, quickly closed the door, and turned the lock just as the stranger's hand hit my door knob. Not joking. It was that close.

At that point the man, in broad daylight, started banging loudly on my door and yelling at me. I couldn't understand what he was saying. I backed up and just looked at the door. There was no back exit to my apartment.

After yelling and banging for a bit, he vanished.

So.....go ahead. I know what you want to ask me. I would hope you wouldn't ask that, but I know some want to.

I know what you want to ask because the police asked me, when I reported the incident, and a male coworker asked me, when I told him.

Can you guess what they asked? (What this has to do with politics is...this is how some people view rape and other assaults on women.)