people are strange
as i’m strolling down the ramp from my station toward my apartment building i become aware of a shadow very close behind…the all of a sudden there’s a little touch on my left calf! so i swing around and this guy is trotting away in the other direction. so i’m just staring dumbfounded and he glances quickly back before descending down the stairs. at that point i look at my calf and there is a small, dark circle (like a wet spot) on my tights where i felt the touch.
now i’m thinking i should have chased after him but it’s too late. hard to run into a crowd to find a japanese man, 30ish, slight build, dark suit, dark long jacket, black hair that you only really saw from behind. at this point i just want to get the tights off anyway so rush home, strip, shower & neosporin (yes, it’s a verb ;). now i’m waiting for something weird to happen and noting any strange tingling, etc.
probably i’m the strange one for being so freaked out by this but WTF!?!
Did he lick you? Did the wet spot smell like anything? That is just scary and gross and I think you should come home.
he would have to be pretty talented to lick me on the calf while we were both walking on a slope so i don’t think so.
i was so nervous as to what it might be that i neither smelled or felt it – just quickly put the tights in a ziplock bag and showered!! haha. but you never know!
thankfully i seem to be fine and had no more problems than a small panic attack that evening.
Heather,
This is awfully wierd. Does that happen a lot in Japan to other women on bicycles? What does Isseki say?
Do be careful.
a.doris! thank you for reading!! <3
isn’t it though!?! i still have the stockings bagged as evidence. i’m having health issues now too so i have a whole conspiracy theory about it. do you think he subjected me to a chemical compound that could completely screw up my thyroid that was fine a couple of months before? hummm….
isseki? he thinks that there are just some weird people out there and i’m NUTS for seeing anything more in it than that.
I think you should devise some sort of cross between tights and the invisible fence… like tights that were woven with tiny little wires… that you could turn on when you leave the house and they would shock anyone who touched you on the tights. Heck – you could make a full body suit out of them, and if anyone ever got past your clothes ZAP!!!
Serve those weird freaks right. Wouldn’t that be funny? I’m imagining the train in Japan two years from now… the full body armor tights have become mainstream… some skeevy old guy tries to cop a feel and ZZAPP!!! He’s laid out on the train… a little shook up, but ok… mostly embarassed that now everyone knows what he was doing. Hehehehe… revenge fantasies are fun!!
PS… I’m sure Madison “Mad Scientist” Garman would be happy to help you with a prototype. :o)