What do you think?

shawn • Mom of 2. My family is everything.

So I read something just a second ago that reminded me of a situation I was in a few years ago. Here's the story

So at my first job we had a drive up, it's were you drive your vehicle up to the next part of the building and we load up their car with the groceries they had just bought, pretty simple. Well I was working at this place for a year at this point and done drive up many times and I always did it for an hour at night. 8-9 to be exact. One day I had this older man in this big white truck, he's probably drunk because I can only understand some of what he is saying, but I understand enough that I can tell that he's saying "what did the sexy blonde haired girl say to the stranger" and he said something that I couldn't understand. And then he offers me a beer and to get into his truck and saying a whole bunch other things. I tried refusing him service but my manager working that night said he'd write me up for turning away a customer. I should have just said fine, but it was my first job and I liked it before all this happened. So I went back out there and finished loading up his car, he was saying things to me, and I was just ignoring him trying to drowned him out. I tried going to the store director and seeing what he can do, I remember giving him the description of the guy and him saying well I can't do anything about it, if you see him again just walk away. I had told him what his son had said that he would write me up if I had refused him service. And he then goes and says I can't do anything if my managers said that then. I didn't feel safe at work and none of them cared. For a long time I had a hard time working in a grocery store and having men be nice. It made me uncomfortable and feel attacked again. Even if they said something completely innocent and nice, like "I'll go to her since she's pretty" until this year I was weird about it because I never talked about it before.

But I had someone tell me I'm over reacting about the whole thing. They had just said, he's just a drunk old man, your taking it way to serious.

During this whole thing I was dating an awful awful guy, he'd get mad at me if I said I didn't want to have sex with him, and got extremely mad at me when I had told him what happened at work.

So my question is do you think I did overreact? I feel like I could have done more to make this stop and I didn't. Maybe I'm dwelling on that? I mean I don't think about it anymore. I mean I remember the whole situation and how scared I was that he was going to do something to me. I'm all alone out there with this creepy man at night and he's the only car that drove up and needed service. I never went to therapy to talk about this, I just bottled it up. I didn't tell my mom about it until a month later, because I just didn't want to talk about it. But like I asked do you guys think I overreacted about it?