Hilarious reader response to this piece on “freak magnets” from MSNBC. Excerpt:
I had a transient scream at me that I was evil outside a Denny’s, some guy scream at me outside a Starbucks about how I should just admit we were meant to be together, a next door neighbor wait for me every morning and walk me to my car and pretend it was an accidental meeting, a guy on a bike swerve from traffic to shout obscenities at me as I walked into a restaurant, a guy follow me around campus and then enroll in my classes only to stare at me the entire time, a guy who stalked me at a 99 cents store, a guy who followed me through a K-mart, many a men who have exposed themselves to me, run-ins with religious freaks who stop me at odd places to tell me Jesus is coming, and a once best friend who suddenly decided he loved me and turned into a psycho who still crank calls and stalks me. Life is strange.
This happens in the business world, too — and the blogging world, of course. Care to share any experiences?
Minding my own business in a grocery store one Tuesday afternoon picking up some things for my girl and I to enjoy over the grill that night…and I notice this black guy following me around aisle to aisle glaring at me. I’m a ptetty normal looking guy I guess…only anomaly that day may have been that I’d worn a sport coat and had my “mission impossible” shades on. Along with a shaved head, I can be mistaken for law enforcement by those that are paranoid about such things.
I make it past the checkout and I’m walking to my car and the guy is still within 20 yards of me…not close enough to be threatening but clearly following me. I stop and turn and face him and said some variation of “W.T.F. do you want?”
He points at me backing up slowly and he says “I know man…I know mutha$*!@%…I just know.” So I turn and head towards my police cruiser (kidding) and he starts shreaking “I know man…I know…”
I wanted to turn and zap the poor guy with a neuralizer from M.I.B. but I was fresh out.
But I know man…