So tonight, Scott's out of town (part of why we celebrated over the weekend). I took the girls to change out movies,... the three of them immediately hit the kids' section while I did my usual wander around the perimeter checking out the new releases. (Now, my rule with them, is they have to stay together, and the place is small enough anyway that I am able to pretty much keep them in my line of sight, otherwise I would never allow it.)
I barely started my round when this shorter fellow who seemed not altogether 'with it' asked me if I had seen the movie he was holding. I said, "no", and then he asked me if I would please read the back of the video to him. I said, "sure",.. no sooner did I take the video from his hands to begin to read it, and he leaned in from the side real close with his body up against me and laid his head on my shoulder. He seemed a bit childlike, and it was obvious he was a bit of a mentally challenged individual so I tried to ignore his behavior, read the video's cover, handed back the video, and attempted to proceed in looking for my own.
Well, then he wanted to shake my hand, and say thank you for being nice. I said "you're welcome", and tried to ignore him. he's says "you're nice". I said, "thank you, you're nice, too", and proceeded to walk away. He follows me. He asks me to read his video to him again, I did, and he presses close again, and lays his head on my shoulder. I'm getting uncomfortable with this, and attempt to walk away,.. AGAIN. He asks me some more questions, I answer, and try to walk away again. He follows me, and asks me to read his video AGAIN. I said I already did, he asks me about the video I've selected, and wants me to read it to him,.... then he gets really close again, and lays his head on my shoulder AGAIN (stop laughing, Vene!). I try to walk away, but you know I'm trying not to be obvious & rude to him..... well, he keeps trying to pull this, and I'm realizing (yeah, I know,.. can we say, S-L-O-W??) that this guy obviously has a fixation with women,... dude, touched me leg at one point, and I swear it sounded like he moaned in a whisper (ew!). I asked him if I could have my video back, he says he's not done, would I read it to him again,.... I say, "no, that's fine, you keep it", and I walked away,.... but kept walking this time. He follows me AGAIN, and wants to shake my hand & say thank you again, and keeps telling me I'm "nice". At that point, I was getting so friggin uncomfortable with the situation that I just said "thx", and then made a beeline back across the video store to get the kids, and go. I was not up for this crap, nor the drama of causing a scene over it.
Suddenly, I see the manager looking all around and on the phone (apparently she saw what was going on, but didn't say anything to me about it, thanks a lot, lady),... I took the girls and went next door to Starbuck's and then as we're getting into the car, the police show up, go inside the video store, then leave again. We head out, and about 3 blocks down the road, two squads are pulled over talking to the guy. I whipped around, and went back to talk to one of the officers to find out what was going on,.. did they know he wasn't shoplifting, that he was obviously mentally unstable, blah, blah, blah, and low and behold, this guy has a record, and they've been looking for him.
Apparently, he's been going from store to store and staring at women, then it progressed into him following women, and harrassing them, and now it's starting to progress further where he is actually touching them. They've talked & talked & talked to him about this behavior being inappropriate & that he needs to stop, and have even arrested him after he touched the gal at the hair salon. Apparently, his actions with me were his boldest yet, and so the officer basically asked me if I wanted to press charges because they want to try to nip this in the bud before it keeps getting worse, although obviously it is. Anyway, I told him that I would leave that to his disgretion after they talked to him some more, and if he felt that it was an appropriate decision and important to do so then I was fine with it, and he could press charges on my behalf. he was much more familiar with the situation. I asked him to just call me at home later to let me know if I had pressed charges or not, LOL.
Anyway,... I'm dragging this on too long,.. I'm tired, I guess. We got home from running a few more erronds, and sure enough, I had a message waiting for me. It was the officer letting me know that they did decide to press charges on my behalf and arrested the guy. Apparently, after talking to him some more, they realized that his (to use the officer's words) 'groin was wet',..... the officer seemed to think that this fellow enjoyed his fixation on me a little too much, if you get my drift (OMG, EWW!!!!!).
So,.. they arrested him. I guess they decided that his conduct violated me. I don't feel violated, but I have to say, I'm a bit
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OK, that was disgusting! YYYYYUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK! Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. Did I say, YUCK? *shivering* These are not good goosebumps on my arms. YUCK!
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