Strange and/or Awkward Encounters

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I live in a small, backwoods town in New England, and the town I work in is affluent. It's like Beverly Hills vs. The Hills Have Eyes. I enjoy the contrast because in the backwoods the people have a tendency to be more warm, friendly and chatty. The cashiers will have a full on conversation with u and it scared me at first! But I <3 it now. But the thing about the backwoods is I've had run ins with some very interesting characters.

I try to do most of my shopping on the way back from work, but sometimes I risk going out into the backwoods wild grocery store. So I was in the maxi pad section and this large burly dude walks over and stands so close I could smell him HURL!!! He was breathing heavily. I'm like dude wtf u need maxi pads for? He was just standing there looking at the maxi pads and breathing heavily so I booked it to the end of the aisle. I stopped, glanced back and sure enough his eyes were locked on me and he was slowly walking towards me (sans maxi pads). It was like a scene out of "It Follows" which I highly recommend, almost pissed myself it was so scary rofl. Neway I power walked in a big loop to lose this orc (I'd run but running in the grocery store is inconsiderate) and when I got back to the maxi pad section it was gone. Phew!

 

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Yeah one winter in Michigan I had an encounter like that. I was out with a friend, trying to get back home I think, but we weren't used to walking through the neighborhood. It was pretty much a run down black community. So my friend goes into the convenience store to get some cigs, and this huge black guy comes towards me during the night, like at 2 am. In retrospect I think he was surprised as I was because you normally don't see anyone but blacks and whites around there. Anyway he offers me some weed, saying his family's broke and all, but instinctively I felt my hand go towards my wallet for some reason, and I felt like a sudden revelation, like DON'T GO FOR THE WALLET, because you know, if he knows where your wallet is, he can mug you, basically. I don't know what happened after that, but we got home safe that night.

 

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Yeah one winter in Michigan I had an encounter like that. I was out with a friend, trying to get back home I think, but we weren't used to walking through the neighborhood. It was pretty much a run down black community. So my friend goes into the convenience store to get some cigs, and this huge black guy comes towards me during the night, like at 2 am. In retrospect I think he was surprised as I was because you normally don't see anyone but blacks and whites around there. Anyway he offers me some weed, saying his family's broke and all, but instinctively I felt my hand go towards my wallet for some reason, and I felt like a sudden revelation, like DON'T GO FOR THE WALLET, because you know, if he knows where your wallet is, he can mug you, basically. I don't know what happened after that, but we got home safe that night.

Yea street smarts fa rale! I used to be too nice like when I was 20 and an obvious addict asked me for bus fare. My ESFJ roomate at the time made fun of me for falling for it but how was innocent little me to kno haha.

I have another story when I was working at borders before it shut down. A man that looked exactly like Hitler came into the cafe all the time. The barista told me about how he opened his laptop full of images of attractive women and did questionable things right in public lol. He wore a really cheap suit every day and smelled like a dirty diaper. A really dirty diaper. I can get more descriptive but I'm still not sure wat the boundaries are here. His hair was slicked down in pure grease, and he drove a Vic. He invited me to see a movie and gave me his card at one point which I was so shocked I barely had a response. He stank so bad. He prolly thought it was a yes cuz he "kinda followed" me home one night according to my coworker, as I am more oblivious, she tailed him so Hitler passed me in his Vic. I think I attract crazies sometimes cuz of the INTP. I followed the link on his card and it was pure schizophrenia. So he escalated to the point where he was harassing coworkers and got banned from the store. Thankfully Hitler nvr came back, Barnes and Noble got him.