I walked into a bathroom at the mall.
I felt a man follow me.
Instinct kicked in and I decided to go back, but he was getting close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suddenly, I remembered one comment saying, So I stopped, turned around, looked him straight in the eyes, and asked, He immediately froze. I stood there for a second, my heart pounding, but I felt in control. Moral of the story:<\/strong> I walked into a bathroom at the mall.I felt a man follow me.Instinct kicked in and I decided to go back, but he was getting close. Suddenly,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“If you think you’re being followed, calmly turn and make eye contact.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Can I help you with something?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
His expression changed \u2014 caught off guard.
He stammered something like, \u201cOh, sorry,\u201d and turned around and walked away quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It might have just been nothing…
But maybe it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust your gut.
Speak up.
Make yourself seen.
Better to feel awkward than unsafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"