I have no survival instinct when it comes to men.
While I tell everybody else to be careful, I always like to assume the best about people.
I tell people I walk alone at night around here and they say I'm crazy. When I'm with girls and we need to take a taxi I'm always the one who ends up in the front seat.
Maybe it's because I've been lucky so far to have not been harassed.
But one night I was returning from the train station alone and I took the bus with just 3 other people. I went off at my station and didn't notice a guy that did too. But as I was walking I realized he was behind me. Of course my brain was telling me he's just going to his own place while I'll go to the dorm and it will be fine. But then he turned to the street of the dormitory just like me. I went inside and I could see he would come too but I thought he wouldn't come there if he wasn't a student, right? But for some reason I didn't think he was one either. Then I passed by the reception and thought okay, this is the last test, if he turns to the direction I turn to he's a creep because it's rare that somebody would go to the building on the right. But he turned right and I was for real scared this time. I was hoping I would take the elevator before he would reach me but no, he was there and entered the elevator with me. I was going on the 5th floor while he pressed the button for the 3rd floor so I felt calm like I'm going to get rid of him soon. BUT the elevator decided to get stuck for some brief seconds past the 2nd floor. I really accepted that this was the end because this had never happened before. I thought he must have done something on purpose. Then we looked at each other and I said "Maybe it wasn't a good idea to take the elevator" and did an awkward laugh until he finally got out on the 3rd floor and he just said goodbye.
I was so relieved that it was nothing but I keep thinking how tf you as a man get into an elevator with a woman alone after walking behind her for at least 8 minutes. Like she will be afraid?? I'd like to think if I were a man I would have waited or something. Then again I don't blame them for not living the same way as us.
I tell people I walk alone at night around here and they say I'm crazy. When I'm with girls and we need to take a taxi I'm always the one who ends up in the front seat.
Maybe it's because I've been lucky so far to have not been harassed.
But one night I was returning from the train station alone and I took the bus with just 3 other people. I went off at my station and didn't notice a guy that did too. But as I was walking I realized he was behind me. Of course my brain was telling me he's just going to his own place while I'll go to the dorm and it will be fine. But then he turned to the street of the dormitory just like me. I went inside and I could see he would come too but I thought he wouldn't come there if he wasn't a student, right? But for some reason I didn't think he was one either. Then I passed by the reception and thought okay, this is the last test, if he turns to the direction I turn to he's a creep because it's rare that somebody would go to the building on the right. But he turned right and I was for real scared this time. I was hoping I would take the elevator before he would reach me but no, he was there and entered the elevator with me. I was going on the 5th floor while he pressed the button for the 3rd floor so I felt calm like I'm going to get rid of him soon. BUT the elevator decided to get stuck for some brief seconds past the 2nd floor. I really accepted that this was the end because this had never happened before. I thought he must have done something on purpose. Then we looked at each other and I said "Maybe it wasn't a good idea to take the elevator" and did an awkward laugh until he finally got out on the 3rd floor and he just said goodbye.
I was so relieved that it was nothing but I keep thinking how tf you as a man get into an elevator with a woman alone after walking behind her for at least 8 minutes. Like she will be afraid?? I'd like to think if I were a man I would have waited or something. Then again I don't blame them for not living the same way as us.
22-25, F
