A_Mess

Last week I was working my retail job when a guy who was apparently standing by and waiting for my to finish my task stopped me and told me I was gorgeous. I appreciated the compliment, but then he asked if I was single and I don’t really like lying about it and just said very clearly yeah, but I’m not looking. Then he backtracked and said he just wanted to be friends. I might have believed that if we’d had like an actual conversation before this point. He then asked if I had graduated and when I said “yeah, two years ago,” he responded with “are you going to go to college?” And I had to clarify that I meant I graduated from university to 2 years ago. I’m 24 but look very young. He looked like maybe late 20s and I didn’t love the fact that he was speaking this way thinking I might be a high schooler. When he asked for my number I tried to get away with just giving him my Instagram (really wish I didn’t give him anything at all honestly) but he opened his phone to a new contact page and handed it to me. For a while he was texting me every day with me responding very sparingly. Now I think he’s somewhat gotten the hint. Yeah, I need to get better about saying f- no when a stranger wants my contact info. I think me being at work and talking to a customer definitely made that more difficult this time.