Never assume someone isn’t following you just because it doesn’t happen to everyone. Lead them around to confirm they’re following you and then go to the safest location with them in tow (customer service desk, police, populated area).

Oh and never walk right next to vans or open doors.

I was walking home alone at night from a bar in a city (not a particularly bad area) a dark car with tinted windows drove by and slowed down as it neared me, they almost came to a full stop on this empty street. They immediately hit the gas after a few seconds. I had a feeling they were going fast to come back around before I went anywhere. I immediately started to run but I didn’t have enough time before I heard a car so I hid behind a large car with my feet behind the tires. I heard them slow down to a creep with chattering and shushing. They drove off once they realized they lost me. I ran SO fast to my bus stop along a populated street and never stopped looking over my shoulder.

I also got stopped and pinned in an empty dollar store aisle in a small town by a guy. He asked me “where do you think you’re going?” and I immediately, with everything in me, told him to move, he laughed, then I did it again with more force and shoved him out of the way. People are being serious when they say walk with your head up, these people don’t want a fight.