A roaming eye..

[Paris2023]

Just been to a soft play with my 6 year old and her friend. There was a Dad there with his daughters and wife. A lot of the time the Mum was with her children in the soft play. This guy made me super uncomfortable, he kept looking at me. Everytime I got up (to help my DD/get a coffee) I could feel his eyes at the back of my head. My friend with me said do you know that guy and I said ‘No’ I’m not going to look at him.

what would you do in this situation. I did consider moving seats so I wasn’t in his eye line anymore. I’ve just got back and realised I’m exhausted! Because he made it such an uncomfortable time for me.

It's really difficult without getting an idea of what he was actually like - was he creepy or overfamiliar or zoned out?

It might be that he felt like he recognised you and was trying to work out where from.

You might want to mention it to staff next time that he's making you feel uncomfortable, or to his wife, or just ask him if you can help him if you feel safe to do so.

Wave, he would avoid staring after that.

I probably would've approached him and asked if he knew me and if that was the reason he kept staring.

Or if I wasn't it the mood to do that/too busy etc, I'd just ignore.

I caught him looking a couple of times and he tried to make it look like he wasn’t , then it’s like he got ‘ballsy’ and wanted me to know he was looking. At one point he moving seats to a sofa and was looking at me from that direction. He’d stop when his wife came back with their girls.

the wave might have been a good one.