To have followed this teen girl?

[FrightorFlight]

On the school run yesterday I had to run into the supermarket to grab some bits. As I drove around the car park towards the exit I saw a teenage girl in school uniform talking to an adult male. She looked a little uncomfortable and upset. Halfway down the next row of cars I decided to swing back past and see if she had gone. She was walking ahead of the man who then veered off towards the supermarket doors and her in the opposite direction.
She was on the phone and visibly upset. The way the car park works you end up driving past the path the girl exited on. As she crossed the road she finished on her phone so I pulled over and wound my window down (pressed my window down?) and asked if she was ok. Just explained I had seen her talking to the guy, did she know him? She said it was her boss and I commented that she seemed a bit upset. Turns out she had lost her bank card.
Once we got home I was telling Dh and said 'is it weird that I did that?'
Dh says 'yeah, a bit'
Dd1 who is 16 then tells me her and her two friends were approached close to where we were by three adult males on Saturday afternoon. So on one hand it could have been something sinister and on the other hand I'm following a girl round a car park!

@Comedycook

Ok this situation is a bit different but I did hang round because I was worried for some boys in a shop. So I was in a supermarket using the self service tills. A group of black teenage boys were using the ones near me...I think their race is relevant before anyone says anything. They paid but didn't press the button asking if they wanted a receipt and went to walk out. Suddenly the woman supervising the tills get on her walkie talkie thing screaming hysterically that they had no receipts. I hung round to make sure the boys weren't stopped on leaving (they weren't) and if they had been I would have absolutely said something in their defence. Disgusting prejudice. I often don't get a receipt when shopping but as a white woman, no shop assistant starts hysterically screaming about it. I have a mixed race teenage ds and I tell him to never leave any shop without a receipt after seeing that.

I tell my girls to always get a receipt especially when they go through self scan.

Definitely NOT unreasonable.
Thankyou for looking out for her.
Unfortunately most men, yes even the good ones, don't really understand the fear and consequences. My sister went on a first date the other day, an afternoon coffee date, and still told several people who, where and when. (She is in her late 50's) my partner was shocked. Why tell everyone? Because women don't have the luxury of assuming a man is good until proven otherwise, because that "proven otherwise" is often deadly or severely negatively life impacting"

There should be more people like you to want to check on others

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Totally get that and if she was on her own I probably would of tried harder to get a parent to pick her up but since her dad wasn't fussed and there was 3 of them I also had my 5 year old with me I did what I thought was the best.

I'd have done the same and hope someone would look out for my daughter in the same situation.

I would have done exactly the same. And if I were that girl I would have appreciated your concern x

Well done, always check, women need to always look out for other women - even if only once in a lifetime we are right, we could still save a woman or girls life. When a shady man followed me a while ago I spotted a woman at her front door, went up to her and said would she mind talking to me for a while as I felt in danger, she gave me a dirty look and went indoors shutting the door - I ended up running to get away from him, luckily I managed, but DO NOT BE THAT HORRIBLE WOMAN

It’s fine. Use your own judgement.

No it’s not weird. I have two teens, I think it’s great that there are observant people out there willing to help x

I think this would be what most would do. My 16 year old son did this, he was walking home from school and there was a girl in front, a strange man behind her taking photos so he carried on walking well past our house to keep an eye on her to make sure she was safe until she reached her destination, he told her what had happened so she made sure to keep herself safe. I would have done the same in his position and I would have also done the same in yours.
Couldn't live with myself if I just ignored and then found out something has happened to them.
I'd hope someone would do the same for me or my children.
You did the right thing and I'm glad she's ok