Okay so story time. This happened yesterday afternoon.
My fiancée and I were out for a run in our city neighborhood and were running across a crosswalk where a car was waiting to pull out onto the main road. It was two guys in the car, who then began catcalling my fiancée, who was a tiny bit behind me. She had headphones in, so she didn't fully hear them, but I let it slide. As they pulled out, they gave me an OK sign and yelled out stuff like "nice job, man!" and giving an OK sign, which made me a little pissed and flip them off as I continued running. They then proceeded to pull an aggressive u-turn into the next intersection and cut us off.
Since they had stopped me, I said "you were catcalling, dude", and they immediately got wicked aggressive, calling me a "racist f*ggot c*cksucker" and "I gave you a compliment you f*ggot!" and other stuff. I realized it wasn't going anywhere so I went back to running, to where they then pulled back out onto the main road and slowly followed us. I then quickly turned around, ran the opposite direction and pulled into a side street, and went behind a house with my fiancée and waited. We then proceeded to finish a modified version of our running route.
We then finish with a little walk through the park (which is literally across the street from our triple-decker apartment) to cool down. A bunch of kids are running across the field, and lo and behold I see the two dudes from the car walking across the field. I know it was surely a coincidence that they were also there, but as we neared the end of the park loop, I see them chilling under a tree on the opposite side of the field looking over.
My fiancée and I then walked over to a group of dogs and their owners to try to kill time and to ensure they don't see us walking across the street into our house. I discretely notify the dog owners what's going on, to where one offers to walk with us to the opposite direction to throw them off. We then ran a long, different route once we were out of sight, and had our neighbor let us in the back of our house. We then watched from our living room window where they proceeded to chill in the park for another 10-15 minutes, before getting back in their cars parked a couple houses down from us.
I know it's probably silly, but the whole thing really rattled me considering how close it was to our home, and it's been distracting me today. Anyone ever have a scary run in with someone near your home and have it leave you shaken for a little while? It's weird how much it's affected me, but just something I wanted to vent about.
My fiancée and I were out for a run in our city neighborhood and were running across a crosswalk where a car was waiting to pull out onto the main road. It was two guys in the car, who then began catcalling my fiancée, who was a tiny bit behind me. She had headphones in, so she didn't fully hear them, but I let it slide. As they pulled out, they gave me an OK sign and yelled out stuff like "nice job, man!" and giving an OK sign, which made me a little pissed and flip them off as I continued running. They then proceeded to pull an aggressive u-turn into the next intersection and cut us off.
Since they had stopped me, I said "you were catcalling, dude", and they immediately got wicked aggressive, calling me a "racist f*ggot c*cksucker" and "I gave you a compliment you f*ggot!" and other stuff. I realized it wasn't going anywhere so I went back to running, to where they then pulled back out onto the main road and slowly followed us. I then quickly turned around, ran the opposite direction and pulled into a side street, and went behind a house with my fiancée and waited. We then proceeded to finish a modified version of our running route.
We then finish with a little walk through the park (which is literally across the street from our triple-decker apartment) to cool down. A bunch of kids are running across the field, and lo and behold I see the two dudes from the car walking across the field. I know it was surely a coincidence that they were also there, but as we neared the end of the park loop, I see them chilling under a tree on the opposite side of the field looking over.
My fiancée and I then walked over to a group of dogs and their owners to try to kill time and to ensure they don't see us walking across the street into our house. I discretely notify the dog owners what's going on, to where one offers to walk with us to the opposite direction to throw them off. We then ran a long, different route once we were out of sight, and had our neighbor let us in the back of our house. We then watched from our living room window where they proceeded to chill in the park for another 10-15 minutes, before getting back in their cars parked a couple houses down from us.
I know it's probably silly, but the whole thing really rattled me considering how close it was to our home, and it's been distracting me today. Anyone ever have a scary run in with someone near your home and have it leave you shaken for a little while? It's weird how much it's affected me, but just something I wanted to vent about.
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