Getting hit on

amelisha

KatieinBkln said:

Old guys don't hit on me. They just make The Gross Hissing Sounds and Whispered Pervy Comments of Plausible Deniability.(This is also the name of my new single. The album drops Valentine's day.)

What is WITH the hissing? I don't even get what that is supposed to indicate.

stefuhknee

Old guys and young guys alike are super annoying where I live in Brooklyn. They all congregate in front of corner stores, barbershops and other people's stoops and God forbid an attractive woman walk by, everyone has to shout something at her and stare her down to make her feel uncomfortable. I find myself weaving in and out of parked cars to avoid the groups.

levieenrose

amelisha said:

KatieinBkln said:

Old guys don't hit on me. They just make The Gross Hissing Sounds and Whispered Pervy Comments of Plausible Deniability.(This is also the name of my new single. The album drops Valentine's day.)

What is WITH the hissing? I don't even get what that is supposed to indicate.

That sounds horrifying. I don't even know how to reply to that.

Cookie Pusher

Ugh, hissing, kissy noises, and tongue-clicking are the worst. It used to happen damn near every time I went to Philly. So gross.

levieenrose

I'm sorry so many people have had such creepers about them. Yuck, yuck, yuck...that cake story and not being able to get away from pervy co-workers are awful. 

The only really uncomfortable experience I had was someone coming up to me after an evening public lecture (I worked in an art museum) and telling me I looked like a Renoir model and he wanted to paint me at his studio. I looked him up online afterward. Yeeeah, no.

But the guys at the assisted living center were nice. They would just sing to me, wink, and bring me stolen fruit.

[Spelling. Sigh]

morewineplease

So people are just so creepy. When I was younger (early 20's) I worked in an office of a hospital, and there was one creepy dude I would try to avoid at all cost. He had to be in his mid 60's

He would come up to my office space when no one else was around and stand in a manner that cornered me in my cubical. Then he would pull candy out of his pocket and literally say "Hey little girl want some candy?"

The breaking point that made me talk to supervisors was when he cornered me to tell me how sexy I looked the day before. 

KatieinBkln

levieenrose said:

amelisha said:

KatieinBkln said:

Old guys don't hit on me. They just make The Gross Hissing Sounds and Whispered Pervy Comments of Plausible Deniability.(This is also the name of my new single. The album drops Valentine's day.)

What is WITH the hissing? I don't even get what that is supposed to indicate.

That sounds horrifying. I don't even know how to reply to that.

I think it's a city thing. At least, I've never experienced it in the suburbs. In the suburbs, teenage boys hit on you (awkwardly) from their moms' minivans.

Until someone follows me I don't feel afraid, just pissed off. No one has ever followed me to my knowledge.

My absolute favorite was when I was walking down a quiet street near 11th avenue (as close to the "outskirts" of NYC as one can really get) alone and a guy sitting on a stoop was giving me the eye as I passed. I kind of braced myself, and I heard "Damn!" as I passed. 

And then? After I had walked by: "Looks just like my ex-wife!" With such a delightful combination of awe and disgust that I couldn't help laughing to myself.