Stalkers

Dionysus · #1 10-10-2005, 08:19 PM

The annoying (but harmless) and the dangerous ones.

Please share your stories.

dzrose93 · #2 10-13-2005, 01:58 PM

Since no one else has posted, I'll start...

Just after graduating college, I went on one date with this guy who I'd met through one of my college friends. I realized over dinner that he wasn't my type (I won't go into all the reasons because it'd take too long), so when the date ended I thanked him for the evening and went inside my house... no kiss, no "call me again" or anything. In fact, I insisted on paying for my meal that night just so he wouldn't feel like I led him on.

Well, apparently he didn't get the hint. He called to ask me out on another date the next day, and I told him basically "thank you, but not interested" as nicely as I could. Then I hung up thinking I wouldn't hear from him again. I was soooo wrong. I came home from work the next day and found several messages from him on my answering machine. Checked caller ID and found that he'd called well over 10 times that day alone, and some of the calls were just a few minutes apart.

So, the next time he called, I again told him thanks but not interested, but this time I wasn't as nice. The next day, I got home to find even more messages on my machine. By the end of the week, my caller ID's memory was completely filled up with his phone number.

I was more than a little freaked out by this time. He always called from his cellphone, and I was scared because I didn't know if he was calling from his house or from behind a bush at my back door. I lived alone, and it got to the point where I had a friend who lived nearby come over whenever I needed to go somewhere so that I wouldn't have to leave or enter the house by myself.

After a few weeks, the calls abruptly stopped and I figured that he'd met someone else and moved on. Then, about a month later, I ran into my stalker at a bar. Luckily I was out with a guy at the time. When the stalker came up to me and got in my face about not calling him back, my date pushed him away and told him, in no uncertain terms, that we were together and there was no reason for me to hear from him again. And I didn't, thank goodness!