I live in New York City, so I’ve been called to by weirdos since I’ve hit puberty. I recently started to attend The City College of New York up on 138th street. I have to take the subway in order to get home from school. Last week when I was about to enter the subway, a man looked me over and said:
“Hey, gorgeous”
I just raised my eyebrows at him as if to say “yea right.”
He got angry and started following me into the subway station saying something along the lines of “I thought I was cute but I guess I’m not cute enough for you.”
He stopped once I swiped my metrocard and got onto the train platform but I was nonetheless disturbed the entire ride home.
– anonymous
Location: New York City, NY
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