Something Scary happened today

I went to the grocery store today by myself, without my kids and my husband. This store is new, it’s renovated, it’s nice and close to my home.

While I was minding my own, shopping around, I noticed out of the side of my eye a man that had seems to be in every spot that I was. I brushed it off, I’m in the popular spots, dairy, eggs, meat department, all things that are frequently bought. It continued literally for the whole shopping trip, I started to get nervous, so I left an idle and he was standing there pretending to look at a random display, I made eye contact and he had turned quickly and started to walk away, but he kept looking back at me to see what I was doing, probably seeing where id walk first. Maybe I should’ve paid more attention earlier, but once I noticed like ok, he’s really watching me, I called my husband. He told me to check out and I went to the self checkout, I didn’t see him, I thought ok, I’m ok, until I looked across the store and there he was, standing and waiting for me. He kept his glare too, stared at me, every time I looked, he was there. I scanned faster, he continued to stare, I started panicking. The parking lot was merely empty, I knew I’d stand no chance by myself, so I called my husband again, he’s home with the kids, I have the car. Finally I’m like ok I’m calling someone to come, I would’ve asked the employees to maybe walk me to my car, but he literally was next to most of them, at least in ear shot. I called a friend who I knew lived close, one I’ve known since high school but have been on and off again in friendship wise, not like we had falling outs, more so we both got busy, he literally dropped everything and came to the store, pretended to be my husband and walked me to his car, we loaded the groceries into his car and drove around for about 20 mins and figured we’d be ok to go back to my car, when we returned he was standing outside the store and made eye contact again. I’m lucky I didn’t go towards my car, we drove off again and waited a while, mostly caught up on our lives since high school, which was nice.

Nonetheless, I’ve been so uneasy & anxious since. Why would you follow someone like that. I kept thinking like I was wearing sweats and a sweater, it was a fast trip to the store. My my heart is in stomach. I feel gross. I just wanted to share.