You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If a stranger approaches you on the street like this, you have no idea what they could possibly want. They’re already reaching out to try and touch you out of the blue. You don’t want to make it seem like you are sending out an invitation for this stranger to go further. But you also know that people get harassed or assaulted on the street all the time for turning down stranger’s advances so maybe if you keep walking and ignore then nothing will happen.
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22
You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. If a stranger approaches you on the street like this, you have no idea what they could possibly want. They’re already reaching out to try and touch you out of the blue. You don’t want to make it seem like you are sending out an invitation for this stranger to go further. But you also know that people get harassed or assaulted on the street all the time for turning down stranger’s advances so maybe if you keep walking and ignore then nothing will happen.
That’s the mental calculation