Reply #55: The most disconcerting...

[LeftishBrit]

was when I was a young woman in my early 20s, and a boy of about 10 came up to me in the street and said, 'Would you like to have sex with me?' After my firm 'No!', he went back to his group of friends, so I think it was probably a dare and didn't reflect something worse in his background. But still...

A funnier story: I am not very good visually, and get nervous when I'm walking and people drive/ park on the pavement near me - which used to happen more often; I think rules have tightened up in recent years. On one occasion, someone moved their car onto the pavement near me when parking, and I jumped. It was on a Sunday, near the local Catholic church, which the driver was probably about to attend. An elderly man witnessed this, misinterpreted my nervousness, and started to give me a lecture about why I should not be afraid of Catholics!