Got on the bus to head home from work. There was a guy sitting up toward the front who said hi to me and he looked at me in a way that made me uneasy. I decided to sit in the back and try to listen to music like usual.
A couple minutes later, I see the same guy walk toward the back and sit down in the seat in front of mine. I’ve got my headphones in, yet he starts talking to me, trying to ask me things like what’s my name and where am I getting off. I didn’t give him the info but he kept persisting and I told him I wasn’t going to tell him where I’m going and didn’t like that he followed me to the back of the bus.
At this time I was also texting my friend, telling them what was happening. Then I changed seats. As I was talking to my friend, I kept noticing the creepy dude was still looking at me and trying to talk to me. He kept pulling the cord but would stay on once he realized I wasn’t getting off.
I decided to get off at a stop way past my usual one and when I got closer to the stop, I told the bus driver that I thought the guy was going to follow me. Turned around and creepy guy was standing RIGHT behind me, claiming he was “just trying to make sure I got home safe.”
I told him several times I would be fine and had never asked for his “help.”
He proceeded to follow me all the way to a restaurant that I headed to in order to get away from him, yelling “just go home! I just wanna make sure you’re safe!!”
Thankfully I knew people at the restaurant and one of the managers got the creepy guy to leave, and a friend and their roommate gave me a ride home.
– Anonymous
Location: St. Louis, MO, US
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