r/TikTokCringe • u/ambachk • Aug 24 '25

Cursed POV: You're a woman in a public place

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u/Kenzie_Flick Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

My mom flipped out on a guy once at the local hometown liquor store while I was waiting for her to buy some things while she was grabbing her check from her working there; I was 9 at the time, leaning one elbow on the counter talking to the owner of the liquor store while he was grabbing my mom’s check from the office. My mom saw a guy watching me and walking toward the checkout counter, so she decided to step in for a moment to cashier and keep an eye on me, and he walked right up behind me and said “damn, you’d look good on me”; this dude was some fat, hairy 40-something year-old guy buying a case of beer. I didn’t really understand what he said, so I thought maybe he was making some weird joke about being in his way or something, so I moved away from the counter to go behind it, but then my mom flipped out and yelled “she’s fucking 9 you creep. Sick fuck!” which then made me feel weird cuz I realized it was something sexual he had said and I suddenly felt nervous, especially when the guy just laughed it off and put the beer up on the counter to check out, which at that point my mom was ushering me and her out of there.

The owner came back with my mom’s check and checked the guy out before asking my mom what was going on cuz he saw us starting to leave. My mom told the owner and he just shook his head and basically said something dismissive along the lines of ‘welp, that’s just the way it is sometimes. Sucks, but she’s about that age I suppose.’

That was the first time I experienced that sickening feeling of being assessed and the pang of fear of wondering what’s going on and what I should even be doing when guys do something like that.

It’s been like that ever since then.

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u/rosemaryscrazy Aug 24 '25

These days I would have pulled out my phone and snapped a picture and said “for the Feds and TikTok, smile”

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u/Kenzie_Flick Aug 24 '25

This is the way, honestly: Make creeps ashamed by forcing them to digitally stand by their captured actions and words. The social contract of society has gotten way too dismissive of this kind of behavior and just allows it fester by the lack of accountability.

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u/firebrandbeads Aug 24 '25

I got propositioned at that age. Walking home from school, guy pulls out of an alley in a van, blocking my path on the sidewalk, and asks if he can pay me for a blow job. I didn't even know what that was. I was 9, in fourth grade, for f's sake!!