weirdest places you’ve encountered inappropriate behaviour and how you’ve reacted

Some dozy bastard once stuck his hand up my skirt when I was carrying 2 dinner plates in one hand and one plate in the other at a function I was working at in a restaurant.
Hot dinner plates, shocked waitress. Wtf he thought would happen I don’t know but he was outraged when I dropped 2 hot roast dinners in his lap 😬
I was too pleased about saying ‘yes, I’m the manager’ (I was running that particular function that day) and getting him removed to really process what happened - however after my shift ended I started shaking quite badly and downed a couple of shots of something.
That job was a learning experience really.

In my grandparents house. I was 3 or 4, maybe. did not do anything.

On a train once. I moved away.

at a tourist attraction as a shy teenager. I just seemed to be unable to speak or move.

at school in a classroom after school. It was dark. I fought them. kicked. I had bruises in between my legs. :( I was 11, I think.

I think you win Certain 😱
I've had the usual ass grabs, some tit and crotch ones for good measure.
The one that sticks out in my mind, was when I had 'an important job', and was in my mid twenties.
I was called to a meeting with a very senior person to discuss projects and funding for the local area.
I spent the whole week preparing as you can imagine.
When I got there, after the usual small talk, he got out a sort of portfolio of his hobbies and went though it. He'd also stuck up a load of posters of him riding motorbikes, all over his office wall for my visit.
Then followed an hour long diatribe on how his well paid job allowed him to partake in these hobbies and how he was like James Bond. While making innuendos on how he loved mentoring up and coming girls like me.
At one point I was looking around for the cameras as I thought it was one big pisstake.

I don't think there are any 'normal' places for this sort of carry on are there? Like places we should expect to be harassed or assaulted? I hope not. Anyway, here goes mine:

1. Age 10 on a walk with my friend in a country park. Perv. blocked the bridge across the ravine by standing there and wanking. Didn't report as friend and I had gone further from home than we were allowed and were scared of getting in to trouble.
2. As an adult, on the tube, had to stand with mans erection pressed against me for a number of stops (Northern line northbound, ageing short Asian man, he's known for it apparently....)
3. Age about 20 woke on a friend's sofa after a party to find her brother on my back with his hands down my pants and between my legs.... he later boasted to his friends how he's shagged me... didn't report/do anything about that as it would upset my friend...
4. In school age 14 or 15 when the IT teacher joked about 'having' me on the computer in the next lesson...

I've omitted the 16 year old date rape experience as that's a slightly different category of awful I think. But anyway, I've been meaning to state my #metoo experiences ever since #metoo came about. I'm 41. These things never leave you.

In my grandmother’s house. “Family friend”

On a lighter note I saw a man in the Princess Diana Memorial Garden - the one you can only go into with children - reading Fifty Shades of Grey. He was with his kids so not a random passerby but still

Oh I win this one!

A man wanking in the garden of...wait for it...Yad Vashem - the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.

Think I killed him.

With any luck!

When I was 19 was sitting in a Chinese takeaway waiting for food and chatting with my then boyfriend. We must have laughed about something and a middle aged man at the counter turned round looked right at me and did a mocking laugh then snarled "fucking bitch!" and looked at me with a face of full on hatred. Was so random and freaky I didn't react but still wonder what the hell his problem was.

Young 17yo me was sitting at the back of a bus facing another chair with a middle aged man on it. He was grinning, I avoided eye contact - eventually I realised he was masterbating. I moved seats but didn't say anything to anyone. 47 year old me, wouldn't have been so passive.

Regular at the pub where I worked after school grabbed my bum and made a suggestive comment. Said pub belonged to my father, who was standing 2 yards away when it happened. Glad to say that bloke was no longer a regular after that.

I've just remembered the times when I was working in a pub. Man who was completely pissed dropped his jeans and undies.

I may have burst out laughing

I've been followed and "hugged" a few times

Drunks on buses sitting too close right up against me.

Man on holiday leading a guided tour (abroad) asking my dad to take photo of him and me. Which he did while the guide put his hand on my arse

Chinese restaurant hired out for a private party. Friend of some family who were at the party pulled me up to dance by the bra strap.

More work at the pub where people twanged my underwear as they we're sometimes above the waist of my trousers or lifted up my top slight to look at my tattoo without asking.

Queue if a night club. Bouncer shining torch down my top.

Most of the time i just laughed and shrugged it off and accepted it was just how it is.

I have since reported it and they are taking it very seriously but I wish I had said something at the time/paid more attention because I didn't get a good look at the man.

Work recently. Man pushed behind me and rubbed his crotch on my butt. I froze and did nothing.

A bloke sitting with his feet in the jacuzzi of the very posh spa, with his cock out.

I spluttered "Oh my goodness" and shot back out into the pool, where I chuntered up and down a few lengths hoping he'd go so I could have my jacuzzi.

And now I ask myself why I didn't go to reception and get the pervy fucker thrown out?

Likewise with the flasher in the park (times two), the flasher/wanker by the canal, the guy who wanked on my back on the tube, the friend of my dads who put his hand up my skirt at a family party...

And that's just the mild stuff that I don't mind mentioning. There's been much worse, too.

Never reported a single one of them. Because they're "not serious". What sort of world do we live in where I can just write these things off as "stuff happens"? Gah! I am angry tonight. OP, I don't know where to get comebacks from, because I've never had them either

On the underground (Berlin) early one morning on the way to work. Only me and a bloke in the carriage. Got his nob out and started having a wank. I moved and he just came and stood right next to me, carrying on. Didn't feel confident enough to report it...if someone did that to me now I'd have no hesitation to report.

At the peacegardens in Sheffield, where there are little sprinklers that come out of the ground, told by an old tramp to get my fanny in there....

I was walking to work and a man walking towards me completely randomly yelled in my face - not words, but a sort of roaring yell - then carried on walking. I carried on walking myself, but it was loud enough that people on the other side of the busy road were staring. I felt shaken and idiotic. I suppose he might have been on drugs or suffering MH issues, but it was very intimidating.

A man once tried to break my hotel room door down. I pushed a piece of furniture up against it and rang reception. The elderly female receptionist came storming up and ordered him to get lost. Amazingly, he did

Aggressive, PUA-style chatup attempt while I was in an A&E waiting room. I was clearly a patient, and was also hiding behind a book, but he carried on anyway. I think I was called before it got to the stage where action would have been required.

Walking down a road in Camden as a student. Walked past a bloke - next thing I knew he punched me in the back. Didn't do anything, carried on walking and wished I could disappear. Wish I'd confronted him.

As an 18 year old - first proper job. Working in a very blokey department - only female member of staff. Lots of inappropriate humour - I joined in until the day one of the lads grabbed me, dragged me between two book cases and simulated sex with me for the amusement of the other lad working there that day. Internally horrified but tried to laugh it off so I didn't lose face. Again, wish I had dealt with it.

Work.

Guy put his hand on my arse.

I heard rumours of someone dying a few days later. Not seen this regular customer since.

Think I killed him.

At 19 a taxi driver drove me to a bit of waste ground instead of the route home - he asked me if I was scared, what would I do to stop him if he tried it on etc. Told him firmly (thank God for alcohol) that I wasn't scared and to take me the fuck home.
He did, my dm rang the cab firm who sacked him on the spot (so they said anyway) didn't ring the police as was worried it was my own fault.

Just wanted to go to end and sleep off the drink tbh!!

what guardianfree said. best-case scenario is he bought something on card whilst he was in the shop, in which event he'll be in big, big trouble.