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00:00I used to work at a Walmart.
00:15The Walmart I worked at was open 24 hours back then.
00:19Due to my kid's school schedule, I would work overnight shifts so that I would be available to drop him off and pick him up.
00:24I would do a 10pm to 7am shift every night. During the day I'd sleep, take care of my son, and work my second job some days.
00:34I was exhausted a lot during this time in my life. It wasn't a great time. I had to do what I could to cover rent though.
00:41This Walmart was one of the bigger ones. It was a super center, not just a grocery store, so it had everything.
00:48It was one of the few open 24 hours around here. I think COVID changed that though.
00:52When I got there around 10 this one cold night, there were still a decent amount of shoppers in the store.
00:59A lot of people would come in for some late night shopping. As the hours would pass, it would of course quiet down tremendously.
01:06The late hours of the night would attract a lot of weirder characters. Weirder than the usual ones during the day.
01:13Into the AM hours of the night, there was only one person working the front of the store, and he or she would be at the self-checkout registers.
01:20There were no regular registers open this late. There would also be a couple of stock workers on the floor, which was what I did.
01:27Then there would be a couple warehouse workers in the back, who I really didn't ever interact with, they did their own thing.
01:33And then there's just the night manager on duty.
01:36I was in the cereal aisle, doing my usual stock work.
01:39I noticed a customer walk past the aisle, then seconds later he stepped back into view at the end of the aisle, stopped, and looked down at me.
01:47When I looked back at him, he started looking at the cereal.
01:51The guy had curly hair. I couldn't gauge his ethnicity, honestly.
01:55He had a black backpack on that looked like it was stuffed to the brim with god knows what.
02:00He awkwardly lingers in the cereal aisle for a minute, apparently looking at the granola bars.
02:05Then he came a little closer to me, and asked me where the bread is.
02:09I pointed him in the right direction.
02:11He said thanks, and slowly walked away out of the aisle.
02:13I watched him walk away, and he had a very noticeable waddle in his walk.
02:18When he was out of sight, he was out of mind, though.
02:21The problem was that he wasn't out of sight for long.
02:24I was in the cereal aisle for quite some time, and I started noticing that every few minutes that guy would slowly pass by the aisle looking down in this direction.
02:32He wasn't holding anything.
02:34He didn't get any bread.
02:36He just had on his big, sketchy backpack.
02:38I started working faster, just so I could finish this aisle and move away from him.
02:44When I was done, I brought the empty U-boat platform back to the warehouse, where I grabbed another U-boat full of boxes ready to stock.
02:51I purposely picked an aisle far away from the cereal aisle.
02:55I was now in the chips aisle.
02:57This is also about 45 minutes after initial contact with that guy, so there should have been no way he was still here.
03:03But I was wrong.
03:05He found me.
03:07I was rotating the newer bags of chips behind the older ones on the shelf, and then I looked to my right, and that guy was at the end of the aisle, creeping again.
03:16He still had nothing in his hands.
03:18This man had been creeping around the store for almost an hour.
03:22He then finally approached me, as I was dreading he would.
03:25I tried to look away until he started to speak.
03:28I don't remember word for word what he said, but basically, he said that he's been checking me out, and he couldn't resist coming up to me telling me how beautiful I am.
03:38I responded as politely as I could.
03:40I did a fake little laugh and said, no, thank you, that's very sweet.
03:44He didn't stop there, though.
03:46He asked a bunch of personal questions like where I'm from.
03:49I gave fake answers to everything.
03:52This guy absolutely reeked, and his breath was awful.
03:55I was genuinely repulsed.
03:57He asked for my number, and I said I'm seeing someone.
04:01He said there's nothing wrong with us just being friends.
04:04To get him to leave me alone, I gave him a fake number.
04:07I then told him I really can't be talking to anyone while I'm working.
04:11He made some creepy comment before walking away, thinking he was all suave that he got my number,
04:16when in reality, he was genuinely creepy, and I gave him a fake number.
04:20I thought that would be the end of it.
04:22Hours went by, and time felt like it was going in reverse.
04:25I wanted to go home.
04:28Then, the only other stock worker on the job at that hour suddenly walkie-talkied me,
04:32saying there's some creepy-looking guy asking for me.
04:35I said oh no, and then told her to tell him I left.
04:39I then basically made a beeline for the employee lounge, where I planned on hiding for a while.
04:44I made it to the lounge, and then sat in one of the seats.
04:48Then the double doors opened, and in came that guy.
04:51He looked at me, and he looked angry.
04:54He yelled, you gave me a fake number, you bitch.
04:57I think I swallowed my gum out of fear.
05:00I said you can't be back here, sir.
05:02He then took off his backpack, and plopped it on the table next to mine.
05:06He started unzipping it as he looked at me.
05:09That's when it was time for me to go.
05:11I got up and ran past him without thinking.
05:14He tried to grab my arm, but he failed.
05:16As I ran through the store, I looked back and saw he was running after me.
05:21I ran to the front of the store, and outside to my car.
05:24It was the only thing I could think to do in the moment.
05:27Alternatively, I could have tried finding the male warehouse workers in the back,
05:30or even the manager, but that was no guarantee.
05:32I got to my car and saw the man leave the Walmart, looking for me.
05:37He was slow.
05:38He must have been on something.
05:39He saw my car, but it was too late.
05:42I was already driving away.
05:44I called the night manager and let him know what just went down,
05:46and that I'm not comfortable staying there tonight.
05:49I also warned him of the man with the backpack full of unknown contents.
05:53My manager told me I can't leave the place short-staffed.
05:56He said he'd call the police to make sure the man doesn't come back,
05:59and he told me to come back.
06:00I was adamant about not returning that night, though.
06:03He eventually got the message and said he'd review the camera footage,
06:06but that I need to come back tomorrow night.
06:09And I did.
06:10He allegedly notified the police the next day of the man,
06:13and gave the police department the surveillance footage.
06:16I met a lot of characters working that job,
06:18but this guy was by far the scariest.
06:21I don't know what he was reaching for in his backpack.
06:23I don't want to either.
06:30I was 14 when this happened.
06:36There's a Walmart that's walking distance to my house.
06:39I used to sometimes go there to buy clothing and such before I was of driving age,
06:43since it was so close.
06:45Sometimes I'd go with my friend Emily, sometimes I'd just go alone.
06:49The Walmart is part of the nearby mall, but the mall kind of stinks now.
06:53Most of the good stores have closed over the years.
06:55Plus, I wasn't made of money when I was 14, and Walmart is cheap.
06:59One night, I walked to Walmart with my AirPods in.
07:02It's a 15-minute walk.
07:04When I put my AirPods in, I shut out everything else around me.
07:08I feel like most people with basic social awareness know that if someone's wearing headphones,
07:12it means they don't want to have to take them out to talk to you.
07:15I was minding my business in Walmart in the girl's clothing department,
07:19when I noticed a guy next to me saying something.
07:22I couldn't hear what he was saying, but it looked like he was talking to me.
07:26I took out my AirPods, and I said,
07:28Are you talking to me?
07:30He said yes.
07:31He was this shorter man with gray hair who looked like 50.
07:34He had glasses and a clean-shaven face.
07:37He smiled and said,
07:38Sorry, I didn't see your headphones.
07:40Sure, he didn't.
07:42He said he was just telling me how his daughter buys the same exact kind of jeans I was wearing.
07:47I had no idea why he was telling me this,
07:49but I'm a very polite person to everybody.
07:51I always have been.
07:53So I chose to be kind to him by laughing and saying,
07:56Oh, that's funny.
07:57That should have been the end of an interaction that didn't need to happen,
08:00but of course, this wouldn't be a story if it was.
08:03I was still looking through this rack of tops,
08:06as the man kept trying to talk to me.
08:08He mistook my kindness for actual interest in talking to him clearly.
08:12He asked my age, and I said 14,
08:14and his response was unsettling.
08:17He basically said,
08:18Oh, what a great age.
08:19So mature, but still so young.
08:22He asked my name,
08:23and for some reason, I actually gave him my real name.
08:26And his response to my name was,
08:28Wow, that's my favorite name for a girl.
08:30Next up, he asked what school I went to,
08:33and around now was when I decided to start making things up.
08:36I said I'm actually not from around here,
08:37I'm just visiting my cousin.
08:39He couldn't let it go, though,
08:40and he persisted, asking where I'm from.
08:43I said I'm from out of state, keeping it vague.
08:46But then he said,
08:47I've seen you around here before.
08:49Are you sure you're not from around here?
08:51I looked at him and tried to think of a response.
08:54But instead, I ended up turning around and walking away from him.
08:58I was for the first time ever actually made very uncomfortable by a stranger.
09:02The way he said he'd seen me before
09:04made me feel as though he'd been watching me
09:06or paid attention to me in this Walmart before.
09:09I went to buy the jeans I was holding at the front of the Walmart.
09:12Then I walked through the store to enter the mall.
09:15It was November or December,
09:17and they had just put up the Christmas decorations,
09:19so I wanted to walk through.
09:20And I also wanted to see if any new stores opened,
09:23since my shopping in Walmart was cut short.
09:25I walked through the mall with really nothing catching my eye.
09:29I went into a Victoria's Secret,
09:31and while inside of there,
09:32I saw through the glass,
09:33that guy from Walmart,
09:35sitting on a bench in the mall outside of the Victoria's Secret.
09:37I left the store and started walking very quickly through the mall.
09:42When I turned around and saw he was now walking behind me,
09:45I started to panic and called my mom,
09:47asking her for a ride because I was being followed by a man.
09:50I took her advice and waited in a store with multiple people inside.
09:54He came to the entrance of the store,
09:56and he creepily said my name in this way
09:58that he clearly didn't want a lot of people to hear him.
10:00I started to feel sick.
10:03I went to the cashier and said this man is following me.
10:05I don't know him.
10:07Some customers overheard and looked over,
10:09and the man clearly noticed and started walking away into the mall.
10:12The cashier, who was probably only 20 years old herself,
10:16sympathized with me.
10:17A couple even came over and said they'd wait with me until my mom got here.
10:22My mom came into the mall eventually,
10:23and I left with her,
10:24thanking the couple who waited with me.
10:26I didn't go to the mall or that Walmart alone anymore.
10:30I didn't even go back with friends for a long time either.
10:33I hope that guy got caught being a creep and has been taken off the streets.
10:47My worst job ever was working at Walmart.
10:50I worked there only for a few months.
10:52I hated every minute of it, honestly.
10:54I didn't get along with a lot of my co-workers.
10:57The customers were crazy and weird,
10:59and I felt like a lot of people just generally were unfriendly.
11:02I was 24,
11:04and Walmart was my second job to make ends meet with my new apartment.
11:08Sometimes I'd work register,
11:09sometimes I'd work the desk outside the fitting room,
11:12and sometimes I'd work general sales associate.
11:15On this day, I was a general associate,
11:17walking around the place assisting customers
11:19and straightening things on the shelves.
11:22I interacted with a bunch of people that day.
11:24I still remember dealing with some of the dumbest customers
11:26I'd ever had the displeasure of interacting with,
11:29but nothing could have prepared me for who I was going to run into that day.
11:32I got a ransom pat on the back,
11:34and I turned around to see my ex-girlfriend Casey.
11:37She looked super happy to see me and went in for a hug.
11:41I was surprised because she didn't live anywhere near here.
11:44I asked what brought her here,
11:45and she said she heard through a mutual friend that I started working here recently.
11:50Casey and I did not leave off on good terms at all.
11:53She had been harassing me for a while since I had broken up with her,
11:56and I had to end up blocking her on everything to get her to stop.
11:59She was insanely controlling throughout her relationship,
12:02and downright obsessive, bipolar, and paranoid.
12:05And after I ended things with her,
12:07she wouldn't stop trying to contact me and meet up with me to talk things out,
12:11even though we had talked things out multiple times.
12:14She even left multiple voicemails crying.
12:16I take no joy in any of that.
12:19I don't say any of this to belittle her,
12:20or make a joke of mental illness,
12:22but she has issues, and I came to learn that,
12:25and I had to tell her multiple times her behavior is not normal.
12:29Her finding out I got this job,
12:30and coming to my place of work,
12:32I was not okay with.
12:33Even though I hugged her back,
12:35and was cordial at first in this interaction,
12:37I eventually cut the crap and said,
12:39why are you here?
12:41The fake friendliness stopped here on both sides.
12:44Her face got more serious,
12:45and she started telling me that it's really messed up
12:47that I block her out of my life like this.
12:50I told her this is the exact kind of behavior that made me block her.
12:54Showing up to my job is not normal.
12:56Then I started asking her which mutual friend told her that I worked here.
13:00She claimed that's irrelevant,
13:02and I assured her it most certainly is not irrelevant,
13:05because I didn't believe that anyone told her where I work.
13:07I had broken up with Casey many months ago.
13:10She should have had no way of knowing about my new job or apartment,
13:14and I was confident none of my friends were even in contact with her anymore.
13:18I told her I'm seeing someone else now.
13:20I have to get back to work.
13:22Please leave and don't contact me again.
13:24She refused to leave,
13:26so I simply just started walking away to an employees-only area.
13:30She didn't follow me back there.
13:32It was at this moment I actually started considering trying to get a restraining order.
13:35After my shift was over, it had to be like 11pm, closing time.
13:40I left the store and went straight home.
13:43My roommate was home, his car was in the driveway.
13:46I parked next to him and went inside.
13:48I went straight to the kitchen to make myself a late dinner,
13:51as I always would after closing shifts.
13:54I microwaved some frozen meal and went to the living room to play video games.
13:58For a while, this was my only time to unwind and do what I wanted.
14:01I played for maybe an hour, then went to bed.
14:05I woke up not long after falling asleep.
14:08I thought I heard something.
14:09I looked up and realized my bedroom door was open.
14:12I definitely did not do that.
14:15My roommate Paul goes to bed really early because he works early,
14:18and there's no chance he'd just get up and randomly open my door.
14:22I got up and walked out into the living room.
14:24I turned on a lamp and looked around the place.
14:27I went over to the front door, and it was unlocked.
14:29What the hell was going on?
14:32I was thinking, did Paul leave?
14:34I looked out the window and saw that his car was still there.
14:37I locked the front door.
14:39Then I went to his bedroom door and tried opening it.
14:41It was locked.
14:43I knocked on the door lightly once, and he didn't respond, so he was asleep.
14:48I was genuinely confused.
14:50I went out front and looked under the pot where we kept a hidden spare key.
14:54It wasn't there.
14:56My heart was in my throat at this point.
14:58The only person in this world besides Paul and my family who knows that I like to hide
15:02a spare key outside is Casey.
15:05I checked at least five times under the pot, even checking the surrounding area on the chance
15:09that maybe he was kicked out of place or something.
15:12I went back inside the house and shut the front door.
15:15I went to the knife holder in the kitchen, and the biggest knife was missing.
15:19My phone was still in my bedroom.
15:21I had to be smart about this.
15:23I tiptoed to my bedroom door until I was close enough to grab the doorknob as fast as I could
15:28and slam it shut from the outside.
15:31I screamed as loud as I could for Paul.
15:33He erupted from his room, obviously confused, and there were suddenly bangs on the bedroom
15:38door from the other side, along with Casey's voice saying,
15:41I'm sorry, let's talk.
15:42I held the door closed with all my might as she kept trying to pull it open.
15:47Paul called the police as I held the door.
15:50After a few minutes of this, Casey stopped trying to pull the door open,
15:53and she was hysterically crying on the other side of the door.
15:56Finally, the police arrived and came inside.
15:59I moved away from the door, and the officers made sure Casey dropped the knife before she came out.
16:04She was of course arrested, and I didn't even have to press charges.
16:07She was charged by this state for, I believe, burglary in the second degree,
16:12and she's currently serving a pretty lengthy prison term for this.
16:15I'm honestly shocked she didn't get charged for attempted murder.
16:19It's a sick situation all around.
16:21I don't know when she'll be out.
16:23I'll have been long moved out of this place by then.
16:26My biggest regret is not catching the red flags with her early on.
16:37.
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