A terrifying 'compliment'

I was walking back from the store near my house in the middle of the day. I waiting at the crossing, and noticed a man in a white truck (with a baseball cap, sunglasses and a white beard) was openly staring at me, which I ignored. Whenever I looked discreetly over without turning my head he was still staring. I crossed the road, thinking that was the end of it, and went into a bookstore. I was in there for around ten minutes. I exited the store, and continued walking home. The man in the white truck pulled alongside me. He had been waiting for me for the ten minutes I was in the store. Now, bear in mind this was next to a stretch of waste ground, with no-one around. If this was just his way of giving me an innocent "compliment", he was really fucking stupid, because it was terrifying. I didn't wait to find out what he wanted (though his grinning and gestures inviting me to 'hop in' to his truck made it pretty obvious) and ran to the nearest store which was a couple of hundred meters away up a hill. The store owner said I could wait in there as long as I wanted, but told me that I needed to be more careful (walking around brazenly as I was in the middle of the day in jeans and a t-shirt) because the man might have mistaken me for a working girl.

Ann Other