How’s about this?
Many years ago now, when I was younger and single, I worked in a pub and was fast friends with another girl that worked there. We would finish about 2 am, and often, walk home together or, more often, to the local 24hr cafe and sit around for a couple of hours drinking tea and yakking it up the way best friends do. Around 3 or 4 we’d walk home together, the pub, our apts and the cafe all being short walks in this small safe (ish) city.
We knew this cop who was often dropping in on the pub on some pretext or the other, he creeped everybody out a bit, but as employees we had little choice but to smile and be nice, which we always were.
He bumps into us in the cafe, very late one night, and insists on driving us home, on the pretext of our personal safety. Now we were young, but we were not stupid, we both know this ain’t right. We try everything we can think of to beg off, but as a young girl you can hardly say, “Hit the bricks.” to a cop. We even said we’d hate for him to get in any trouble, but all to no avail. Finally we just gave up and went along. We let him drive us both home, maybe a 10 minute drive.
Well, it turns out, someone saw him, or maybe heard us trying to avoid the ride, and he ended up being reprimanded and walking a beat for like 6 months during a particularly cold and harsh winter.
I am now, much older and some wiser. And I understand that for every beautiful woman out there, dodging a ticket by batting her eyes and exercising her feminine charms, there is a young woman receiving unwanted attention from an authority figure. She can feel it’s not right, but is often not yet savy enough to speak up and say,
“I am a young woman and you are a ______ (cop, fireman, lawyer, whatever) and I find your behaviour inappropriate, it makes me uncomfortable.”
I don’t attach any evil to what these boobs are doing, in most cases I’d say they think they are being cute or romantic. But if one woman spoke up I believe they’d change their tune.
Rest assured though, men who pull these kind of stunts never seem to be able to keep their mouths shut. They’ll be bragging it up to anyone with ears, until they reach the person who will set them straight, hopefullly pointing out the liabilities to such actions.