I haven’t been harassed for quite some time but I will mention something that happened the other day which annoyed me.
I had to go to a meeting and I didn’t have my coat to wear because it was in the wash. So I just had to put up with the cold weather. I was wearing a halter neck jumper [sweater] (one which sort of bares your chest) but not your breasts! Though just a little bit of cleavage was showing. As I was waiting for the bus, a man in a car stared at my chest as he drove past.
Then after the meeting, I had just missed my bus by a few seconds. My next one was in 15 minutes. I waited miserably in the freezing wind silently cussing the bus I had just missed. I was clutching some leaflets in my hands and I decided to read them and as I was a van beeped at me and a man shouted “hey”! at me. I didn’t know him.
I was already ticked off that I had missed the bus and was cold but that idiot in the van just made it that little bit worse for me…. can’t a woman just go about her way in peace?
– Clarice
Location: South Wales, UK
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