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A few years ago, I was working the closing shift at a grocery store when a woman rushed up to customer service and asked if she could pretend to know me.
Before I could even answer, she smiled and said, “There you are! Mom's been calling you.”
I played along immediately.
A guy who had been hanging around the entrance saw her talking to me and finally left.
After he was gone, she explained that he'd been following her through several aisles, trying to start conversations and refusing to take the hint.
Every time she moved to another section of the store, he followed.
She spotted me behind the counter and figured pretending to know an employee was safer than walking to her car alone.
I walked her outside after my shift ended and waited until she drove away.
The strangest part wasn't that I helped. It was that she already had a plan for what to do when a man wouldn't accept being ignored. Nobody should need an escape strategy just to buy groceries.
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