Now, how often have you thought this while out dressed? Personally I never have until today. I had driven down to one of the local outlet malls to visit a Dress Barn where I know one of the managers. After spending about an hour and making my purchases, I walked to the food court to use the ladies room before I started driving home.
As I was walking out of the food court, I heard a noise off to the right and turned to see and man getting up from a table, knocking over a chair and starting to walk in the same direction that I was. As I exited the building, I heard someone talking and realized that it was this same man and that he was talking to me. Initially I just ignored him and started walking in the general direction of my car.
His comments got cruder and more vulgar and I started to feel quite uncomfortable and realized that it was not a good idea to go to my car or let him see what type of car I drive. I started to walk into one of the stores, just to get away from him, when I spotted a police car approaching me from the opposite direction. Without really thinking, I changed my direction and walked over the officer and told him that I was being followed and annoyed by a man and pointed this man out to the officer. The officer told me to stay where I was as he pulled across the road.
The officer pulled his car up to the man, got out and started talking to him. After a minute or two, the officer put this man in the back seat of his car, turned to me and waved me to leave, which I did, quickly I might add.
In the past, I have been stopped by the police on several occasions for silly little things and always considered the police to be considerate and for the most part polite. This is the first time that I have ever asked a police officer for help and was really glad that he was there to assist. I did notice his badge number and name and have already called his station and spoken with his superiors to express my appreciation for his help.
Now my question,how many of you have ever been in a situation where you asked a police officer for help while out full dressed and what was the situation?