I was leaving work and going to catch a bus home, when I walked through the park and some sketchy man pointed at me and said, “I want to talk to you!” I was talking to a friend on the phone at the time, and said to the man, “I don’t want to talk to you!”
He said, “Yes you do!” and I replied, “No!” The man and his friends start laughing. I turned around and said, “I don’t think this is funny. Leave me alone!” He went from thinking it was funny to yelling at me. “I wasn’t trying to talk to you anyway!” he said, trying to save face.
I got back on the phone with my friend and casually said, “Oh, it’s just some harasser who’s mad because I rejected him and didn’t reply in the way he wanted.”
Business as usual…sadly.
– Anonymous
Location: McPherson Square, Washington, D.C.
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