Moos thinking sex traffikers are after them

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“I had been browsing for only 10 to 15 minutes when I noticed a young gentleman. He was tall, skinny, dressed in a dirty grey two-piece sweatsuit, and brown work boots,” Peeky-Lou wrote. “He looked over at me, I smiled and said hello but his facial expression was blank.”

She said she wasn’t alarmed by him, but was struck by the fact that he didn’t have a cart or a basket — he was just wandering through the aisles.

Moments later, she noticed a second young man in a similar outfit. He didn’t have a cart or a basket, either.

Around 15 minutes after that, she noticed a third man in the exact same situation.

“I had a bad feeling about these three men, and it became clear that something was a bit off,” she wrote.

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Over the next 20 minutes, Peeky-Lou felt as if she was being followed by the three men.

She began picking random aisles and walking around in an unorganized fashion, and every time, one of the three men would pass by her, making their presence known.

“It felt as if I was being surrounded like a wild animal —hunted, even,” she wrote. “They were no longer trying to be inconspicuous, which was the scariest part of it all, and everything instinctual was screaming at me to get out of there.”

‘I will never forget the darkness in his eyes’

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Cambion
So a guy in a dirty sweatsuit and work books looked at her with a blank expression. DId she consider the fact that maybe he's just a lousy dresser and spaced out? And so what if he had no cart or basket?

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Cambion
Haha, don't flatter yourself, Moo. You couldn't pay someone to fuck you, let alone get them to pay for it.

Now could it be that a bunch of weirdos were following this woman around, sizing her up to mug her? Sure. Maybe they were all nuts. If you have a gut feeling saying something's not right, it's good to listen to it because that's why we have gut feelings. But to jump to the conclusion that these strange men were planning to kidnap her and sell her specifically into sex work is paranoid bullshit.

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“I had been browsing for only 10 to 15 minutes when I noticed a young gentleman. He was tall, skinny, dressed in a dirty grey two-piece sweatsuit, and brown work boots,” Peeky-Lou wrote. “He looked over at me, I smiled and said hello but his facial expression was blank.”

She said she wasn’t alarmed by him, but was struck by the fact that he didn’t have a cart or a basket — he was just wandering through the aisles.

Moments later, she noticed a second young man in a similar outfit. He didn’t have a cart or a basket, either.

Around 15 minutes after that, she noticed a third man in the exact same situation.

“I had a bad feeling about these three men, and it became clear that something was a bit off,” she wrote.

This sounds like a pretty big paranoid leap. So a guy in a dirty sweatsuit and work books looked at her with a blank expression. DId she consider the fact that maybe he's just a lousy dresser and spaced out? And so what if he had no cart or basket? There's a such thing as browsing. I almost never use a cart when I shop because I don't buy that much at once and some local stores no longer offer hand baskets because of the pandemic. I also am in a constant state of daydreaming and might appear to be staring at someone when in reality, I'm probably thinking about stupid shit like how people can compare macaron batter to lava because how would they know what lava in a bowl looks like. But I guess by this idiot's logic, that means I'm looking for a female to snatch up.

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Over the next 20 minutes, Peeky-Lou felt as if she was being followed by the three men.

She began picking random aisles and walking around in an unorganized fashion, and every time, one of the three men would pass by her, making their presence known.

“It felt as if I was being surrounded like a wild animal —hunted, even,” she wrote. “They were no longer trying to be inconspicuous, which was the scariest part of it all, and everything instinctual was screaming at me to get out of there.”

‘I will never forget the darkness in his eyes’

So they weren't actually following her - they just crossed paths a lot. I've done that by accident a few times in grocery stores - crossed paths with the same person five or six times by coincidence. Maybe it's a bunch of college guys doing some grocery shopping together?

I'm not saying something wasn't off about these guys because there could have been, and it was fine for her to have a manager escort her to her car for safety reasons if she felt uneasy. But I'm pretty sure people who sell others into human trafficking aren't shopping for victims at fucking Target. Plus if they were hanging around her car, what is to stop them from figuring out how to find her from the make/model of her car and her plate if they really want to find her?

I just hope Moo doesn't have a sensitive trigger finger because if she whips out whatever "legal self-defense items" she carries with her all the time because of a stupid assumption, she might wind up cuffed on the hood of a police cruiser.

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kman
There's more to this with younger people than you think. Younger Millennials and Generation Z(yklon) have been indoctrinated from infancy with the idea of "stranger danger", the idea that every stranger wants to kidnap and molest or kill them. This is one (of many) reasons the youth crowd buries its heads in smartphones and other electronic devices instead of actually talking to people. They seem shy, but it's about the stranger danger. Employers note this trend too.

We all know most kyds are far more in danger from pahrunts and others at home than they are from typical strangers, but the youth don't comprehend that reality.

So this moo probably was scared to death about strangers as a girl and it bleeds over into adulthood. I'll bet she's an absolute pleasure to be around...not.

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misskitty
Well who did the indoctrinating? A good amount of people from your generation had to believe in stranger danger as well if we were learning it as children. Stranger danger is also a major theme in fairy tales that are centuries old.

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kman
There's more to this with younger people than you think. Younger Millennials and Generation Z(yklon) have been indoctrinated from infancy with the idea of "stranger danger", the idea that every stranger wants to kidnap and molest or kill them. This is one (of many) reasons the youth crowd buries its heads in smartphones and other electronic devices instead of actually talking to people. They seem shy, but it's about the stranger danger. Employers note this trend too.

We all know most kyds are far more in danger from pahrunts and others at home than they are from typical strangers, but the youth don't comprehend that reality.

So this moo probably was scared to death about strangers as a girl and it bleeds over into adulthood. I'll bet she's an absolute pleasure to be around...not.

Well who did the indoctrinating? A good amount of people from your generation had to believe in stranger danger as well if we were learning it as children. Stranger danger is also a major theme in fairy tales that are centuries old.

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kman
Recently read an account from one guy who as a favor took his niece (he had seen her only a few times before) with other, older family members to an airport an hour away so she could catch a flight. During the car ride she had her head buried in a smartphone and wouldn't talk to him when he tried to make conversation. Something's not right when young adults behave that way, and lots of stories like that are out there. The other family members claimed the niece was just "shy", but the guy said he saw this from other younger relatives too.

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kman
Teaching kids not to take candy from a stranger or get in some stranger's car was the norm, and that's common sense because kids can be too trusting. Teaching kids to be scared of everybody is different, and it's not healthy. Some kids won't approach uniformed first responders for help now, for example. A lot of the stranger danger hysteria seems to be from schools, not parents.

As an adult being scared of strangers is going to make you nonfunctional. Dealing with strangers is part of most jobs.

Recently read an account from one guy who as a favor took his niece (he had seen her only a few times before) with other, older family members to an airport an hour away so she could catch a flight. During the car ride she had her head buried in a smartphone and wouldn't talk to him when he tried to make conversation. Something's not right when young adults behave that way, and lots of stories like that are out there. The other family members claimed the niece was just "shy", but the guy said he saw this from other younger relatives too.

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LoveToLurk
Cambion, that’s one thing I have to laugh about whenever boomers complain about all the ways in which millennials turned out badly. Well boomer, who do you think raised us?