[LockedSoul]

A couple of weeks ago I was studying in the student lounge on my lunch break. I was almost done though, and figured I'd finish when I got home. I decided to people watch, just to kill time until my next class. There weren't very many people there: It's a small branch campus, and not many people take classes in summer. There was a girl sitting a few seats away from me. She had a book the size of "War and Peace" open on the table beside her, and she was typing on her laptop. She was obviously very busy, just like the couple of other people in the lounge.

In walks this guy. He was in his late 20's I'd guess, wasn't carrying any books or anything. He scanned the room, ordered a juice or something and sat down at the girl's table. I figured they were friends, and I went back to staring at my own book and looking around the room. A couple of minutes went by and I heard them talking. I don't remember what the guy was saying, but he was trying to flirt with her. She let him down easy and told him she was busy and didn't have time to talk, but he wouldn't give up. He asked her for her phone number, and she said something like "not right now, I need to study for this exam" (something along those lines). He said "It's okay, I'll wait here until you're done", and he continued to flirt with her. It got to be a little creepy. She became upset, told him she wasn't interested, and asked him to go away.

You'd think that would be enough of a hint, right? It wasn't, the guy didn't budge. I got up from my table, ready to walk over there and tell him to **** off. A security guard walked in before I could, went to the table and talked to them. The situation ended with the guard marching the guy out of the lounge. I shrugged the whole thing off and forgot all about it. Until today...

I was running late, rushing to class past the library, when I saw another security guard escorting the same guy away. I stopped and talked to a security guard who was standing there, and I told him about the guy harassing someone a couple of weeks ago. The security guard told me that this was the third time the guy had been caught harassing women. It turns out that the creep doesn't even go to college there, he just shows up to try and pick up women, I guess.

The whole thing is just bizarre. Why do people do crap like that? A college is kind of a bad place to flirt with women, especially if you don't go there. People are there to learn, it's not a bar. I guess it's fine if you get to know someone or share a class with them, but just wandering in? The girl was very polite in her rejections at first, but she did reject him over and over again.

The dude is probably just crazy, but I've seen this kind of behavior before. Not every day or anything, but I've witnessed it at former jobs, bars (although I've only been to a few), busses. In fact, I'd bet that almost every woman who's taken a public transpiration (at least in the US) has had something like that happen. My aunt was on some online chat service a couple of months ago - chat roulette I think, but I donno - and almost every message she received was creepy! I don't know why people do stuff like that, but there are a lot of crazies out there. I don't blame women for being cautious sometimes.

Anyway, this thread isn't about anything specific. Just a minor rant, because it genuinely confuses me.

[glok]

Hello, LockedSoul. I wonder what it takes for a person as you describe to find he is going to be charged criminally for trespass if he returns again?

[blur]

LS, good for you for being willing to intervene. this guys definitely sounds like trouble and i hope they ban him from the campus.

[LockedSoul]

I think they did call the cops on him this time, but I'm not sure. I just get sick of seeing behavior like this. I was agoraphobic for almost 3 years (I still fight it some days) because the world is such an awful place filled with awful people. I'm not a negative person, but when I always see more bad than good in the world, it's hard to keep hope in humanity.