Today at work (I work in a retail store in case anybody doesn't know) I was checking some data on a store computer on the shop floor and a guy in his sixties or early seventies was walking towards me. I looked him in the eye and asked him if he was ok and if he needed any assistance. He came up to me, said no, and proceeded to move behind me putting one hand in front on my stomach and rubbing it in a circular motion, almost putting his hand inside my shirt under the buttons and he rubbed his left hand across my back onto my shoulder as he passed me quite firmly. It was not just, as some people do, touching in a friendly way, it was quite deliberate..
My first reaction was one of shock
I then said "Get your hands off me right now" in a rather aggressive tone. He must have registered it but kept walking, past the TVs and around and out of the store..
I had a female mamber of staff witness it as she stood there with her mouth open in shock...
I'm really upset with myself for not tearing his f**king arms off on the spot (I'm usually a very calm person but this wasn't a normal store incident to me) but I feel I should have taught him a lesson, maybe the fact I had other people, and children, around me stopped me because I had the urge to ram his head through a TV. . It's now bugging me that I didn't do anything. I've been told that I did the correct thing in not reacting in a violent way but what if this guy is a creep that molests people, even children? I know what he looks like and I've seen him before so maybe I log it with the police, I don't know...
To top it off I had somebody tell me today, "well maybe he's gay and that's why he did it"
. Well I'm not gay but I got offended by that anyway because I can't see anybody that is gay doing this.. As i pointed out, it's not like I go out groping females so I don't know why it should apply to guys that like men either.. A very homophobic comment and it just went and pissed me off even further...
So now I'm getting mad with myself for not enforcing myself and making it quite clear physically to this guy that you don't do things like this and get away with it..
BTW
* for those ledgies in the know I would like to state I wasn't wearing my famous pink shirt either...
