I Rebuffed a Man and He Died 10 Minutes Later

I’m a pretty extroverted person. I will talk to anyone. From time to time, though, things just get to be too much. My head gets noisy. These are the days I really should avoid public places. Stay home and out of contact with other humans. This may have been one of those times.

I went to meet up with some friends at a karaoke place and that’s not necessarily my thing but my friends are pretty great people. I’d not been feeling quite myself and thought some time with them would make me feel better. It was a late March night and beautiful outside so I figured I would sit on the patio and wait for them because it was so loud inside.

As I sat on the patio an older man kept trying to talk to me. I pretended to be texting someone on my phone. I just didn’t want to deal with him. I didn’t want to exchange small talk and pleasantries. I could see how he was looking me up and down and I wanted nothing to do with that.

I was going through a not so pleasant divorce and men were turning my stomach. I was repulsed by things that men felt they could just come up and say to a single woman. “I wanna take you home with me” is not a suitable way to start a conversation with a woman you don’t know.

My “Resting Bitch Face” had turned into “Active Get The Fuck Away From Me…