Edit: 30... Thirty... I'm 30. I should have just used the numbers in the first place, reading comprehension is hard I know... I am an adult, not thirteen. Also while I'm here, huge shoutout to the guy who called me "a drama queen with a blind eye", I kind of loved it, thank you.
As a contextual thing, I take a lot of Ubers because I am functionally blind in one eye and the lack of depth perception causes me to be unable to drive.
This guy was my Uber driver home from work yesterday morning (I work nights). He told me that I looked to be about the same age as him and I laughed as he looked to be in his mid-forties and I am having my thirtieth birthday in a couple of weeks, but he seemed surprised when I told him my age and made a joke about "there goes my five stars". That was slightly awkward but no big deal, I gave him the same five stars I give to every Uber driver who doesn't act like an enormous asshole. But then he drove me home again this morning.
At first I thought that he was just in his usual area or what have you, but this man felt perfectly comfortable with telling me that he had pulled into the parking lot and had waited for ten minutes for me to come out and order an Uber. What the unholy fuck?! So I'm already uncomfortable.
He asked me what I do on the weekends and I told him that that's when I spend my time with my friends. He then asked me whether I wanted one more friend, a question that I tried to dodge the pointed intention of by saying something like "haha, it's always good to have friends". But he told me that he "was interested in getting to know me" anyway and that's why he was waiting outside my work today. Said he likes how my laugh sounds.
Then he started regaling me with sad tales of his personal life, including his mother's cancer. This was actually a slight improvement because it wasn't about me at all.
THEN, when he dropped me off he pointedly asked "so how do I get in touch with you outside of (place I work in)?". I was stunned into silence and he followed up with a standard sad-toned "I don't?". I basically told him that I didn't feel comfortable with that as I don't know him at all, got out of the car and didn't look back.
This is crazy. How does this complete stranger think that ANY ONE ELEMENT of this is even remotely appropriate? Just because a woman is friendly and smiles at you is no excuse to literally STALK HER outside of her job and push your company on her. I feel disgusted by the very idea that this guy may well be in that parking lot again on Monday morning and I will not be entering his vehicle ever again. If you ever need more evidence to not give these people your full address, you never know when someone may just decide to wait where they know you'll be.
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