Would freak me out if someone followed me. Trust your instincts always!

Anonymous wrote:A stranger on the street initiates a conversation with you and begin talking, some 20-30 minute conversation. Then you say goodbye and go your separate ways. You start walking home and as you enter your apartment building you see this stranger right behind you. You know the stranger does not live there. The stranger asks for your cell number, and when you give a fake number, they immediately call it.

No because you had a long conversation.

If the tables were turned in this situation and a guy was followed home, then asked by a girl for his phone no.#, trust me the guy would be super-flattered.

But from a woman’s perspective this behavior is creepy & definitely crosses boundaries.

Though if an isolated issue, it wouldn’t probably be considered stalking but it would be pretty well close! 😬

Anonymous wrote:Who talks to a stranger for 20 minutes?? yikes. Bad idea.

Yeah I'm still stuck on this. Somehow you had an interaction without setting a boundary. Not sure how nuts/dangerous this person is, though.

He'd have been better off asking to exchange numbers during that long ass convo- or running after you and saying "I'm sorry- I should have asked previously- would you like to go for for coffee some time- can I give you MY number". Shouldn't have followed/shouldn't have snuck up on you/should have been aware that would be creepy/calling the number immediately tells me that yes, this person has likely stalked before.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a BS thread based on the murder in Baltimore.

Where are you getting that they had a 30 minute conversation? I missed that. Do you have a link?

Not every opinion comes with a f-king link.

Who talks to a stranger for 20 minutes?? yikes. Bad idea.

Anonymous wrote:This is a BS thread based on the murder in Baltimore.

Where are you getting that they had a 30 minute conversation? I missed that. Do you have a link?

I never would have had a 20 minute conversation with a stranger. I am not even sure I'd have a 20 second conversation with a stranger who approached me on the street. If they asked for my phone number I would just say "No, I don't give that out." And I never would have walked to my home - I'd have gone to a public store, walked immediately to the cash register (where there's a decent chance there's a camera) and told whoever is there that someone had been following me.

Does whoever did this have ZERO street smarts?!

I find the one thing that works is to pretend to have a very overbearing boyfriend: “I’m so sorry, my boyfriend would just be really upset if I gave my number out.”