These are the things men say to women on the street

[LWolf]

46. It doesn't happen to me any more.

I'm too old, and wear the evidence of a hard life. I also went gray early, and never covered it up. Gray hair is a good silencer.

When I was younger, though, it happened all over. Walking or riding my bike to school and back...fucking jr high school as well as high school. Public bus stops. Parking lots. Grocery store aisles. Walking down any street past any place where there were men. Not all men, thankfully, but enough of them.

Once it happened IN a movie theater. My friend and I sat down to watch an afternoon matinee; we, and a few guys in the back row, were the only ones there that afternoon. The called down to us repeatedly, and when we didn't respond, one of them came down from the back row, sat behind me, leaned over, and got real close to my ear. When he reached for my hair, to move it out of his way, I acted. I stood, moved out into the aisle (I was in an end seat,) and looked at him. He grinned, stood, and said something like "Now you're talkin', baby," reaching his hand out for me. I nailed him in the gonads as hard as I could with my boots, and my friend and I moved several rows down and finished watching our movie. I was 14.