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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/ZazyzzyO on 2023-10-05 09:34:40.

Ok, so this happened a year ago. And, I think about it every now and then when i grocery shop.

I was in a grocery store pushing a cart and after about the 4th aisle I realized this weirdo was following me down each aisle I was going. He had a basket with nothing inside it and always pretended to be looking at the shelves. I sometimes go down aisle by aisle when i don’t have a list in mind of what to by. Often times i get a basket when i know what few things i need- so that’s what alerted me when this guy was on his 4th aisle with nothing in his basket!!!

So, I decided to go back to the beginning aisle i started and turn around to stare at him at the end of the aisle where he would enter . If he came to that aisle then he was 100% in fact following me. And, he did. I gave him a pissed off look like “I know your following me your idiot.” I didn’t see him again thankfully after that and carried on my shopping cause i didn’t want to be intimidated and ruin my shopping plans.

Because i was further paranoid and it was dark out i didn’t drive straight home in case people wait for you in the parking lot. So, to see if i was being followed i drove into a nearby apartment building front area with a circular driveway and an odd car behind me drove into a closed entrance to the apartment building parking and stopped abruptly! It was really really odd. Anyhow I sped off after that car stopped.Maybe it was this weirdo. Maybe it wasn’t.And, then i went to another grocery store to pick up a few thing before going back home.

Now. In this situation should I have driven to the police station first? And if i had what then? Just stay in the parking lot of the police station or tell the police about how i “thought” i was being followed in a store and make a police report for nothing major. I called the grocery store the next day to alert the manger there(in case this guy does it to other people) and she said if it happens again to come to the customer service desk. But this kind of thing never happened before so i didn’t know what to do. And, as a women with people being trafficked in the world it’s not a fun feeling.

So what should we be doing?