How do you react when a stranger tries to hit on you?

You definitely did the right thing. Same thing happened with me when I was new in my city's high school. I had to walk home after class and so some stranger on bicycle started following me everyday silently. At one point, he ended up asking me my number and I told him I did not know it. He was like please please, give it to me, I am alone I need a friend. I said sorry. But he still kept following. So I asked one of my classmates if she knew any girl who stayed next to my house and walked home after school. She said yes and connected me with the girl. I started walking home with her and he stopped following me. But I applaud your courage. Such people need a taste of bitterness. I feel those stalkers are sick. Something is really wrong with their mentality.

Internet is like icing on cake for these odd people. They are actually quite powerful online for which we have the "report" and "block" buttons on our Facebook and other social networking sites. It was at the bus stop. The girl was trying to walk away from the guy. But he really caught her bad. He took out his phone and kept saying "please please, I will not annoy you, just give me the number". That girl was like "no, I am sorry". Then a time came when she gave up and ended up giving her number. He checked to see if it was fake by calling her right away. It was a creepy scene. I am sure she was feeling very uncomfortable. What is weird is that there were tons of people around her. But none of them came to her rescue.

I'd actually be scared and nervous as well. strangers who just ask for phone numbers or flirt, gotta becareful for them. they might be rapists or killers and stalkers, etc. I'd be half-pissed if some random stranger asked me for phone numbers.

Oh no, there were so many people and still he got the courage to ask you your number while standing up? He sure had a lot of courage. The candy man story is hilarious. He, perhaps, thought that you would take the candy and think he was a nice man. So you would start talking to him. A very cunning tactic on his part.

He asked for my number when I was sitting already.. Yeah, about the candy.. (maybe he's put some potion in it that will make me like him...LOL)

Was his head falling over you? I suppose some can even pretend to be drowsy just to get the touch of the woman. They think this is how it is easy to not only grab her attention, but also get her caress. But just as you described, things do not work that way.

Truly, the hitting thing is awkward. Still people don't stop doing this. I wonder whether they have no fear of getting humiliated. Not every girl is graceful and not every man hitting on her appears macho in this situations.

Yes, that was a boring line he used. I guess he thought that this would get you curious and you would ask him why he was going to the probation officer. This would allow him to get you into a conversation. Thus, making it easy for him to get personal with you also. Fake number works, but these days only sometimes because we all have cell phones.

Definitely, bar is one place where hitting on girls is very common. Many even go to it just with the intention to find love. But when they get drunk they can be dangerous. Under such circumstances, it can be really hard to find innocence in them.

Your girlfriend was right in her position. Such people must be reported. What the man was doing is actually equal to harassing and that is violation of organizational laws. You are totally right, such things happen to girls all the time even when they are in a relationship. Some male students tried hitting on me in school. I just told my boyfriend about it and the next day he went to give them indirect signal that I was in a happy relationship with him. But 5 years ago, he was not in my life. I was working at the time at a store. This weird guy working with me tried hitting on me. He actually tried to touch me. I felt uncomfortable and ended up humiliating him in front of my customers. He tried to take revenge on me by isolating the female workers from me. I was too young and did not have much idea on how to take action against that. So I suffered. Girls definitely need to be careful. I say they need to be tougher and must build in some attitude to keep the weird people at bay. There seems to be no other way to get rid of them especially if they have a habit of not giving up.

I think when we tell them that we are already in a relationship some of them might try to get away still by saying that they just with to be friends. When someone is too forceful they become annoying. This can make any girl mad. Of course, there is no need to be rude, but sometimes some of those people deserve it.

Pepper spray sure is a good medication to get rid of the forceful ones. I think there are some exceptions to who should hit on whom. For instance, we can take a guy of our age as okay to hit on us if we girls are not in any relationships and thus looking for love. Most girls will also welcome any good looking guy. But those who are much older than us should not try it. They just make themselves look creepy.

Did he ask for your cell phone number? The bus stop girl I mentioned under the question had to give her correct number because the guy was standing next to her with his own phone. He said he was going to give her a call to see if it was the fake number he received from her. He sounded quite clever.