(I was working on the floor of a store selling video games, where guys being creepy to women is unfortunately not uncommon. I’m a small woman myself and end up on the receiving end of it pretty often, so I’m very sympathetic to female customers dealing with creeps. A couple come in and are standing near the door with the man talking to my coworker while his girlfriend stood nearby waiting.
Another man from outside spots them and suddenly makes a beeline over. While the boyfriend is still distracted talking to my coworker, this man stands uncomfortably close to the woman and stares her down.)
Woman: …Can I help you?
(The man doesn’t say anything, just continues standing in her personal bubble and staring. Her boyfriend went to make a purchase and she tries following him towards the register, but the other man steps in her way repeatedly and just keeps staring. I cut between them to give the woman a chance to escape.)
Me: Hi, welcome to [Store]! Can I help you find anything today?
(The woman took that moment he was looking at me to dart around him and follow her boyfriend, and the man waves me off and immediately chases her. She whirls around, clearly tense and freaked out.)
Woman: Would you leave me alone?!
(I’m already following, mildly panicking thinking I’m going to have to kick this man out of the store or call security. The boyfriend finally turns around and grins.)
Boyfriend: DUDE! Hey man, how’ve you been?!
(They laugh and hug, apparently old friends, and the man starts telling him how freaked out his girlfriend had looked. Me and this poor woman just spent the rest of that interaction giving each other exhausted looks, clearly less amused by this guy’s idea of a “prank”.)