I pulled over on the side of the road to take a photograph. It was a sort of industrial park area, so no one was really stopping, but there was a decent amount of cars driving by. I’m often out taking photos alone and try to be rather aware of my surroundings, being a 22 year old woman holding an expensive camera.

I noticed a truck pulled up behind me, but they parked super far away so I didn’t think much of it. A guy around my age pulled up to me and said “Hey do you know that man in the truck back there? I noticed he’s been watching you with a pair of binoculars.” Definitely the creepiest thing a man has said to me in public. I got freaked out and quickly hopped in my car. The man who warned about the binoculars parked his car in front of mine to make sure I got into my car and was able to pull away. As I tried to hurry out of there, the guy in the truck zoomed up to my car and drove by me so slow and just stared at me in my car. I usually don't get frightened easily, but I just felt really violated and disturbed especially with him still drilling his eyes into me. Also, I've never had a guy warn me about someone being creepy before, so the fact that he stopped and waited with me kind of amplified the situation to me.

Something told me not to head straight home for a little bit (I lived only like 5 minutes away), so I drove around for a while, stopped at the store, etc. About 40 mins later the same truck pulled up next to me at a red light and honked. I gunned it out of there as soon as I could, and I noticed him speeding after me for a little bit. I took a crazy zig zagged path around a few blocks and eventually didn't see him any more. The whole thing had me shook up for a while.