• AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Was in this position walking down a dark highway to the bus stop at like 10pm. I'm a big guy so usually if I'm worried about seeming like I'm creeping up on a woman when I'm trying to pass her I'll cross the road or something, but I couldn't really dash over the highway. We were also both walking to the last bus and I didn't wanna do the 8ish mile walk home in the middle of the night so I couldn't hang too far back. Every time I tried to speed up a little bit to pass her she kept moving faster and I wish I could have just said "I'm sorry, I'm not chasing you, I'm just trying to pass you to be polite" without sounding like a psycho.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I was stoned and walking a few meters behind a woman who I'd thought saw me when we both turned onto the block, and she turned around and let out a solid yelp with panic in her eyes at my oblivious ass. I usually try and be conscious of such situations, but since it was in broad daylight near a busy street and all I didn't think we'd have an issue idk. Mildly humorous, but I do feel bad, and I can only imagine that she has had some sort of previous experience that put her on edge (at the same time, I really hope it's not due to true-crime/"everything is a sex trafficking scheme" brainworms, but I would doubt it)

    • MerryChristmas [any]
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      2 years ago

      Idk, if someone said that to me I'd probably appreciate it. I'd think it was weird... but that's just because that behavior hasn't been normalized.