This afternoon, I was with the little 2-year-old I nanny for. I had pulled the stroller over to the side of the footpath and I was giving her some apple. We were on a nice street in a nice, posh neighbourhood. I saw in my side vision, a man walking towards me and past me but I didn’t look at him on purpose because he was shouting, “Hi bitch! Hi bitch!” over and over again.
When he had continued walking down the road, (still shouting it), I turned and he was walking backwards watching me and shouting. When I caught his eye and he saw I had looked at him, he gave me ‘the finger’ and kept shouting “hi bitch!”
He was shouting it so loudly that women started coming out of shops and buildings to see what was going on. Since I was really the only person there they asked me what was happening and I said, “Apparently he’s talking to me.”
He was still shouting it and staring at me and giving me the finger, and all the women said, “Oh, okay” and went back into their buildings.
I just walked away…
– Anonymous
Location: on a street in Paris, France
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