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Sarah Simons

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Hi!
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I'm a bit of an introvert
I will leave now.

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Sarah Simons • upvoted 15 items 5 months ago

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

This is why "why didn't you leave him" is a bad question to ask abused women. They know leaving is the most dangerous thing they can do. They're not weak-willed--they're smart and trying to stay alive. The question shouldn't be "why didn't she leave" but "why did we, as a society, not hold abusive men accountable".

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

For this sort of situation, teach children to ask for a password. If the person doesn't give the password, then scream and shout, run to the nearest shop, or adult in uniform.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

For this sort of situation, teach children to ask for a password. If the person doesn't give the password, then scream and shout, run to the nearest shop, or adult in uniform.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Jesus Christ, smart move calling the front desk.

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MajesticallyMila reply

Struck up a convo with a man at the pool bar of the hotel I was staying at and accidentally told him I was traveling alone….later that night I woke up to knocks and the door knob shaking….I never got out of bed to check the peep hole I just called the front desk but I’m pretty sure it was him.

motormouth08 reply

In 1995 I was in Europe for the summer. The last week was for travel, and I was by myself, a 21 year old female. As a broke college student, I took advantage of as many freebies as possible, and with my Eurorail pass, I got a free cruise on Lake Geneva. It ended up being much longer than I thought it would be, and it was a really hot day. Because of this, I switched from being on the sunny deck to going inside several times. After I had made the switch a few times, I noticed that a couple was mirroring my movements, but they weren't sitting together. I thought I was being paranoid, so I started moving even more frequently, but the couple followed my every move. Assuming they just wanted to take advantage of a young girl alone (maybe to get my passport or plane ticket??) I decided that I would just let them disembark first. At the end, we were the only 3 people on the boat. At this point, I was actually starting to get scared. It was a Sunday, and all my parents knew was that they needed to pick me up at the airport on Friday. If something happened to me, there was no way to track my movements, and there would be a delay of nearly a week. Finally, I noticed that there was a police officer near the end of the ramp. I got off the boat and stood by him. The couple actually hung around for a bit but finally must have figured out that I wasn't going anywhere by myself. I still had about 6 hours until my train was going to leave and had planned to do a bit of sightseeing in the town we were in, but decided to play it safe and just stay in the train station where there were other people around I have no clue what they wanted, but I still have no doubt that they were up to something.